NAEB Newsletter (Mar 1935)

p&ge 8 - Bulletin - larch 27 INCREASED POSTER AT WSUI Carl I'enzei*^ Diredtoi* WSUI, Iowa City, Iowa, reports regarding the WSUI grant of a power increase to 1000 watts day and continuous hours of operation; it is diffi¬ cult to give anything like an exact statement of the increase in primary coverage without field strength measurements* Tie do know, however, that our daytime service area has been definitely increased and better reception is reported from other points* Exclusive of Sunday we operate twelve hours daily as a minimum* On some days the time runs as high as fifteen hours. It may interest the fraternity to know that WSUI is enjoying excellent frequency stability by the use of a new type "A” cut crystal* Our maximum deviation seems to be less than one-half cycle* A cathode ray oscillograph as described in one of my prints available to N*A.E.B, members some time ago is an integral part of monitoring equipment* Station directors should ob¬ tain some form of cathode ray monitoring equipment as it is extremely valuable* WSUI operates in conjunction with television station W9XK to broadcast a program of both sight and sound on regular schedule twice each week* These programs are trans¬ mitted on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7:30 o'clock* W9XK is now using a power of 100 watts on a frequency of 2050 k* c* The scanning equipment utilizes a 45 hole, 3 spiral disc* Experimental work is being conducted with a view to adding a 5 meter television transmitter to the system* DEBATING AT WOI For several years WOI, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, has offered a series of radio debates with other colleges* The response has always been good. This year as one of the debates an Iowa State College team debated Kansas State College over radio station WOI on February 7 on the question of the feasibility of adopting the uni¬ cameral legislative system in the State of Iowa* A number of members of the General Assembly listened to the debate by radio* I-embers sponsoring such measures in both the House of Representatives and the Senate wrote to station WOI for copies of the manuscripts, and asked that an intercollegiate debate be sent to the floor of the Assembly* As a result of this request, a debate was held before a joint session of the two houses on larch 6, Iowa State College asking for adoption of a single body legislature, Kirksville (Wissouri) State Teachers advising against such a change* A lively open forum followed the debate. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate, which has the bill under consideration, called a meeting immediately after the discussion* The chairman of that Committee promised the debaters that the bill would not be killed in Committee, but would be brought to the floor of the Senate for general dis¬ cussion and vote. On the Sunday following the debate before the legislature, the editor of the Des I-oines Register commented on the debate in his editorial column to the effect that more debates should be held on other vital subjects, and that the college debaters had more time to find material about proposed legislation than do the senators and representatives* The editor stopped before becoming involved as to their comparative abilities to use the facts* NEW YORK C* A. Taylor, in charge of agricultural radio programs at WESG, Ithaca, New York, says: "The annual Farm and Home Week at the New York State College of Agriculture during February had a registered attendance of more than 8,000* That necessitated the use of public address system in several large rooms on the campus so that all migh hear some of our principal speakers, including - T rs • Franklin D. Roosevelt and Govern¬ or Herbert H* Lehman. By remote control these addresses andt hose of Some of our other principal speakers were picked up and broadcast from our station, WESG, 1000 watts•