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WLS LINCOLN SERIES GO INTO BOOK FORM
One of the first radio series to he put in hook form, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, adapted from thirty broadcast dramas staged during the past year by Station WLS, Chicago, makes its appearance this month. The volume is Raymond Warren* s "The Prairie President", dealing with the pioneer background of the boy Lincoln, his struggle for education, his work as a soldier in the Black Hawk war, as a young lawyer, and up to the time of his departure from Illinois as President-elect of the United States.
As a sequel to the first series of radio dramas from which the new volume is taken, WLS is now broadcasting each Friday even¬ ing at 8:00 P. M. , C. S.T. , thirty additional plays during this past Fall and Winter. The present series takes the listener through the Presidential period of Lincoln’s life. "The Prairie President" Living Through The Yea.rs With Lincoln is published by Reilly and Lee, Chicago.
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EXPERIMENTS ON 400,000 WATTS AUTHORIZED
The highest powered broadcasting station in the world, W8XAR, at Pittsburgh, was authorized Tuesday to conduct experiments in the early morning hours to determine whether ultra-high power can overcome fading, static, and interference. Power of 400,000 watts, twice that of any previous experimental station, is to be used. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, which also operates KDKA, will conduct the experiment.
W8XAR will utilize the 980 kilocycle channel, now assigned KDKA, between 1 A.M* and 6 A.M. The power of the former will be stepped up gradually from 50,000 watts to 400,000 watts so as to ascertain the changes in reception achieved by each increase.
Monitors are to be operated at strategic locations throughout the United States to pick up the signals of the super¬ power station. Phonograph records and speeches will be put on the air during the experiments. Technical improvements in transmitters are also expected to result from the W8XAR broadcasts.
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