Radio age (Jan 1927-Jan 1928)

RADIO AGE for October, 1927 45 Radio Industry Standards H. B. Richmond, of the engineering division of the Radio Manufacturers Association sends the following interesting information on standardization of radio products : "Much confusion has formerly existed in the radio industry, because of two separate technical standards set up by two organizations within the industry. Each of these standards had been set up in good faith, and represented the accepted practice of its particular group. "Radio has been phenomenal in its growth. It is, therefore, only natural that organizations within the trade should show a similar growth. Within a period of a few years the Radio Manufacturers' Association, which is the leading trade association of the industry, has grown from a dozen to three hundred members. It now has ten times the membership of any other manufacturers' trade association within the industry. "Inasmuch as the Association now is so nearly 100% representative of the entire industry, it feels that any standardization work it may do will be truly representative of the industry. Under the direction of the Engineering Division, meetings are being held, at which not only are members welcome, but every interested manufacturer is invited. At these meetings all previous standards, regardless of their origin, are being reconsidered. Out of this previous duplication of effort, the RMA is drawing up, a new set of standards which, while sponsored by the RMA, will no longer be known simply as the RMA standards, but will be designated 'The Radio Industry Standards.' " Chicago Radio Show The sixth annual Chicago Radio Show, one of the most important milestones in the progress of the radio industry, will take place in the Coliseum from Monday, October 10, to Sunday, October 16, being open to the public* each afternoon and evening. Jobbers and dealers will have special hours from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m. The show will have an especial appeal to the public this year for several reasons. The Trade Show in Chicago last June gave the manufacturer the opportunity to get into contact with his distributors and the dealers. Now he can bend his every effort to make a display which will be primarily for the benefit of the general public. Coming so soon after the Dempsey-Tunney fight, when radio will reach such a height in public interest, the show will be doubly interesting to the fan. This year, too, the display of radio apparatus staged by the manufacturers will be backed up by the "Theater of Wireless Wonders" in which will be displayed the latest achievements in scientific research. These exhibits, or at least many of them, had their first public demonstration at the Radio World's Fair in New York. The exhibits, which will be grouped on the balcony of the main exposition hall, will include devices by which the infinitismal atom can be measured, seen and even heard. Amplifiers which build up sound to millions of times its original volume will make flowers "talk" and other devices will touch them with a wireless ray which will instantly freeze them into brittleness. Cold heat will be transmitted through the air and a cake of ice burned up before the eyes of the spectators. Another machine using 350,000 volts of electricity will send a ray at the speed of 150,000 miles an hour. Scientists will show how they measure one-ten-millionth of an inch. J. Elliott Jenkins, radio engineer, is installing a model broadcasting station in the ballroom of the annex from where nearly a score of Chicago stations will give special programs for the benefit of their millions of listeners. Jack Nelson, pioneer announcer and station manager, has been placed in charge of arranging the programs to be given at the show and in co-ordinating the work of the stations taking part in the hook-up. Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago and Lieutenant Governor Fred Sterling of Illinois will take part in the opening exercises at the show. Miss Lois Delander, who went to Atlantic City as "Miss Illinois" and came back to her home at Joliet as "Miss America," is expected as a specially honored guest one evening during the show. U. J. Herrmann, who started the Chicago radio show when there weren't enough sets in the entire community to fill the Coliseum, is again the managing director of the exposition, and G. Clayton Irwin, Jr., is general manager. Many jobbers and dealers in the middle west are planning to attend the Chicago show to see what developments have been achieved since the R. M. A. trade show held in Chicago in June. 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