Judge — August 26, 1922 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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yurious messages which are sometimes cent out by facetious amateurs who are iorant of the severe penalties attached to such proceedings. It has not been possible to apply this system all over the country, because 485 met to the wave Hence, stations use + well as general messag rs is too close vessels. lengths used by Atlantie C¢ st broadcasting overnmental some Safety First real danger connected contact of the al r trolley. wi In + therefore, never throw en a rope or string, ss such wires; and never run it where it can break id fall upon a live wire: or where a live wire can break and fall upon it: or where it can swing against a live wire in a high wind. Parents never permit boys. to erect acrials until they assure themselves that contact with live wires is impossible. There is little danger from lightning th an aerial that is properly grounded and provided with a suitable lightning is an with (PHE only radio is in the electric lig an ae! th erecting arrester, In facet, such an aerial cflective lightning rod and should actually afford some protection to the house. For tio receiver a thunder- s very reason, however, itr should hever be used during storm. I LIS general practice among amateurs to build their own transmitters, but serviceable outfits can be purchased com- plete. A transmitter using tubes, with a telephonic range of about fifteen miles and a telegraphic range of about 100) miles, costs $305, complete, with tubes, phone, k and mo’ generator unit. The electric light ci (uit provides the most convenient source of power for operating transmitters; but where electricity is not avails 1 gener- ator driven by ine can be used, although this, of course, adds greatly to the expense and the complication of the installation, Defective Phones—Phones that are old and badly battered will lose some of their magnetism and give weak si while an internal break or short. circuit’ will cither stop the messages altogether or cause various peculiar noises. ‘The most satisfactory way to test the phones is to substitute another pair for them or to try them out in another receiver that is known to be operating satisfactorily. Defective Receiver—Hf, after all these parts have been examined in turn and have been proved to be in good shape, the trouble still r ns, it is undoubtedly in the receiver. No simple. directions can be given for such cases; it is a job for an expert. If the operator is not an expert himself, he should take his paratus to one who is. Life to the radio amateur means a great deal more than it does to most people. Not only does he have everyday friends and inte but when he shuts himself up in his little operating-room, dons the he is in touch friends scat- phones, and presses his key, with hundreds of invisible tered over an area of perhaps a thousand miles. He chats and gossips with them, tells them the latest news from his par. ticular section of the country, and, of course, discusses ad infinitum the ab-| sorbing topic—radio. Radio, an Aid to Housekeeping “ PJOUSEKEEPING is, no lon: monotonous for me,” writes one of our correspondents, “for the radio stations in this vicinity operate all day long. When I am cooking or cleaning, | I turn on the loud speaker; and when I am sewing, I wear the phones. So as I work, I listen to music, to. the news of the day and many interesting talks. | 1) am no longer cut off from the outside world.’ | Many broadcasting stations have come | to realize that women are particularly | interested in daytime broadcasts and are putting on special features for their ber fit. Among the topics covered, in addi- | tion to news and music, are the care of children, clothes and fashions, cooking and preserving, interior decoration, and politics from the woman voter's stand- point. The reports, stations, agricultural number of ly valuable official Government sent out by a large have proved to the hous give her, in plain and simple language, information on the wholesale prices of meats, vege- | tables and fruits, the volume of the r ceipts at various distributing centers and the state of the demand. With this data, | | heretofore a deep tr ¢ buy with intelligence and can Yavin the profitecring buteher and grocer. Even the weather forecasts and time » secret, si s have their household uses. TI weather forecasts, being up to the| minute, influence the plans for countless shopping expeditions, while the time s help many a commuter's wife to h the matinée train, Unfortunately, the area covered by the since daytime program is limited does not travel nearl light hours as it does at number of broadcasting stations — is rapidly increasing, however, and_ more and more people are being reached with this service every day. Dead Spots HE watoomer passes under Brook yn Bridge, she is dead to Though a half a dozen of the most power- ful stations may be in operation all around her, she cannot hear a sound. The radio . of course, caught | by the bridge’s structure, and none ean | reach the below. Similarly, a , absorb mountain of i the radio waves in its vicinity, and form a “dead spot” where radio operators are out of luck. 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