Radio Digest (Oct 1923-July 1924)

February 9, 19%^ RADIO DIGEST — Illustrated ■* BOY SCOUT TUNES 32 IN 150 MINUTES BROOKLYN.— Andrew S. Bostwick. Boy Scout of this city, recently reported he had tuned in Station 6AND, J. Kennedy, Hawaii, thus breaking, he said, his own record of receiving 32 amateur stations in the United States and Canada in two and one-half hours, a few nights ago. During three and one-half hours of the same night Bostwick said he copied 144 stations in code. ETHER TRAFFIC COP STOPS WAVE JAMS Radio traffic policeman O'Keefe of the Bureau of Standards, keeping tab on broadcasting and transmitting stations. This work supplements that of the Radio Inspection Service of the Department of Commerce. © U. & U. Caribbean Cruisers to Ride Waves with Phones Will Listen In to Home Station at Fort Worth FORT WORTH, TEX. — One of the special amusement features of the Caribbean Cruise to be conducted by the Star-Telegram, March 20 to April 9, will be Radio programs on board the S, S. Cartago, of the United Fruit Company line, the ship on which the cruise will be made. A special receiving set will be installed and passengers will listen in to programs from WBAP, the Star-Telegram here, and Other stations in the United States. Special efforts will be made to insure clear reception of programs. RADIO NAMES SONG; OTHER MEANS FAIL PUBLISHERS IN NEW YORK RECEIVE 5,000 TITLES Owners of Hit Offer Royalty to Winner After Tin Pan Alley Admits Defeat NEW YORK. — For many months Charles Tobias and Louis Breau, publishers of songs, widely known as pioneers in broadcasting "hits," tried to find an appropriate title for a fox trot whose rhythm, they said, was novel. Finally, after every other means had failed, they appealed to the Radio audience of Station WHN, Loew's State theater, 45th and Broadway, and found not one but many suitable names. The publishers who, during the last two and one-half years, have broadcast songs from Stations W.TY, WJZ, WEAF, KYW, WOR, WHN, WDAP, WMAQ, WAAM and others, appealed at first to the professional lyricists of "Tin Pan Alley" where most of the popular ditties of the nation are conceived. But nothing suitable was found. Radio Brings 5,000 Karnes For two weeks or more the song lay in the publishers' office, a thing of regret and irritation. A few nights ago, the publishers fell upon what they at first thought was a "wild" idea — they determined to let the Radiophans, the listeners in, try to name the new melody. The announcer for WHN, Nils T. Granlund, put the publishers' plight on the air. Shortly afterward more than 5,000 suggestions for names were received by mail, telegraph and telephone. Many fitting titles were among these, according to the publishers, but to give thousands of other listeners in opportunity to compete, the contest was continued three weeks. The name of the winner will appear on the title page of the song and he or she will be given opportunity to write the lyric under a royalty contract. Away Up in Canada WTAS Wins Aid for Griff is Fund CHICAGO.— Although Mr. M. Ercury wings his feet so fast 'way up North that during the winter he usually arrives near the bulb of the little glass tube which makes weather seem real, he didn't, a few days ago, drop so low as to prevent the warmth of the appeal for funds to release Griffis from a German prison to reach at least one Canadian. It was Radio which defeated M. Ercury; Radio as broadcast fit>m Station WTAS, Elgin, 111. In a letter to those in chaise of the fund in this city, C. L. Pickering of Cochrane, Ontario, said that WTAS's plea had induced him to send money to effect the freedom of Griffis, who had tried to kidnap Bergdoll, fugitive slacker. Station W.TAZ, Edgewater Beach hotel, and several theaters here also broadcast appeals for Griffis. The French deny that the pilotless airplane is an American invention, and furnish conclusive proof that in September of 1918 a pilotless plane was successfully controlled from the Eiffel Town. Yukon Miners Dance to Music from Portland Best Orchestras of Continent Heard in North DAWSON, YUKON.— Denizens of the Yukon are dancing this winter to music played by the best orchestras of the continent through the medium of the Radiophone. Now that the period of the shortest daylight is reached, Radiophans receive good results from their instruments. Miners at Miller Creek and Keno Hill have experimented, and found they can tune in on Radio concerts for their dance music. Concerts broadcast from Calgary, Alberta, Portland, Ore., Los Angeles and San Francisco compete with music from distant Eastern cities these nights to beguile the unbroken twilight of the subarctic winter. Greece to Have Radio WASHINGTON. — Radio communication will be established throughout Greece by the British Marconi company under an agreement which has just been signed with the Greek department of communieations, according to a report received by the United States department of commerce. Stations will be erected in the principal cities. De Forest DV-6-A Universal Tuba $5.00 De Forest DV Dry Cell Tube $6.50 unr Do Fore9t DV-2 Power Ampltaer Tube (wet cell) $6.50 The More You Know About Radio The More You Rely on De Forest Without Lee De Forest's discovery of the vacuum tube there would be no radio today. All radio broadcasting, all radio receiving by means of tube sets, rests on De Forest patents. De Forest has been a pioneer in radio since 1900 and De Forest is a pioneer today. That is the reason for the great success of the De Forest Reflex Radiophone. 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