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A Loop Receiver in the Tropics
By CHARLES T. WHITEFIELD
I WONDER if many fans have had the fun from a receiver which has been given us by our loop machine. We found it a not considerable package to carry with us on the steamer from New York, and forthwith set it up on deck and attended New York concerts and church services on Sunday to the enjoyment of the passengers.
The apparatus failed us in only one particular. When we moved it to the salon, which is well below decks, it refused to speak— doubtless too much steel between it and the outer world.
From Nassau, in the British West Indies, we get everything 2,000 miles and less north, south, east, and west during the evening, and find it most difficult to get good signals in the daytime; but at night the concerts and lectures come most clearly and the news we pick up from WOO, Philadelphia, is a godsend when news is scarce and from three days to a week late.
Perhaps our most amusing experience was to take the machine to one of the "Out Islands," so called, where wireless was never heard of and the natives were skeptical and superstitious. When we asked them if they would like to go to a church service held in New York, they showed small interest in such "foolish talk"; but when the voice of the minister was heard and the hymns sung by the congregation they" ' thought the end of the world was upon them. They did not at first enjoy the exper
ience— looked for telegraph wires, and finally gave up in despair as to how the trick was done.
But in the Bahamas, as elsewhere, radio is making its way. A year ago there was not a listening-in amateur in these islands. This year there are well on to six or eight, and the art is spreading. People away from the centres where batteries and parts are sold have no easy time of it. In all the islands you cannot
OPERATING THE LOOP RECEIVER IN NASSAU, B. W. I.