Radio mirror (Jan-Oct 1923)

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Flewelling Tells "How"; Q. & A. on Reinartz Vol. IV Copyright, 1923 R. D. P. Co. Inc. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1923 No. 4 SEE TOLL PLANT CHAIN PLANS FOLLOW $25,000 TEST OF SIMULTANEOUS BROADCASTING SERVICE POPULAR ARTISTS BEFORE WJZ MICROPHONE American Telephone and Telegraph to Establish First Station in Boston — Two Plants Send Same Program at One Time During Tryout (By F. N. Eollingsworth, Special Correspondent) NEW YORK. — An experiment in Radiophone broadcasting, the first of its kind ever attempted, has resulted successfully — so successfully, in fact, that the world's greatest telephone corporation is about to launch the establishment of a chain of Radio test laboratories and Radio toll stations that will extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, both north and south in two (Continued on page 2) HEAR PHILADELPHIA STATION IN HAWAII SENSITIVE RECEIVING SET BRIDGES 5,100-MILE GAP Government Operator at Pearl Harbor Picks Up "Laughing Record" from WIP Plant PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Using supersensitive receiving set, H. B. Smith, 'a government Radio operator stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands, while "listening in" October 18, picked up Station WIP, Philadelphia, approximately 5,100 miles distant, making a world record for long-distance receiving. Word has just been received here of the feat. Station WIP is located in the Gimbel Brothers' store here. "I heard what sounded like someone laughing," said Mr. Smith in reporting the reception, "and thought at first that an operator in some broadcasting station nearby had made some kind of a blunder, for the sound came in clear and strong. Then, to my astonishment, I heard the sign-off, 'This is station WIP, Gimbel Brothers, Philadelphia,' At another time I heard the 'bedtime stories' broadcast by this station. Heard "Iiaug-hing1 Record" Station WIP checked up the various items of musical programs broadcast the day preceding that named by Mr. Smith and found that at 3:25 P. M., Eastern (Continued on page 2) PA TO BE RADIOED TO RADIO SON CASH PRINCETON. — Princeton undergraduates may send home for money via Radio at no cost to either them or "the governor," according to a recent announcement by the Princeton Radio club. It has arranged with amateur Radio operators throughout the United States and Canada to relay messages from Princeton to their destinations free of charge. ''Gentleman Jim " Corbett Tells of New "Pug" Rules NEWARK, N. J. — The first public reading of the new Roosevelt boxing Rules were given from Station WOR by James J. Corbett' on January 9. A special committee of noted sporting editors and ring celebrities was on hand at the Radio station to hear "Gentleman Jim's" proposed code and several recognized boxing experts expressed opinion of the rules, broadcasting these immediately after the sending. WJZ Crosses Ocean Again NEWARK, N. J. — Carl Rollins' voice carried across the Atlantic Ocean recently when he sang "When Knights Were Bold," at Station WJZ. He received a letter from Morgan Edwards, amateur of Southampton, England, stating that his solo was picked up there. Mona Morgan, Shakespearean reader, whose recitals have been broadcast by WJZ. Miss Morgan's short snatches from the master's plays are aimed to show that Shakespeare wrote (or human beings about human beings ■H