Radio mirror (Jan-Oct 1923)

m -7 1 ©C1B576636 Beginner's Series; Week's Advance Programs Radio Digest 1 1 mm ff#j4a3[ ten I REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. Vol. 5 Copyright, 1923 R. D. P. Co. Inc. SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1923 No. 4 NEW WAVES TO END QRM To the left is Miss Gertrude Paine, who is spoken of in broadcasting circles as "a peppy monologist and snappy accompanist." From this title you will readily judge she is somewhat of a jack of many trades and her versatility makes her almost indispensable to the broadcasters. Miss Paine recently gave some of her most popular readings and piano selections from Station KQV, of the Doubleday-Hill Electric Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. MAY 15 DATE PLANTS TAKE ON NEW PLAN Listener-in's Woes Cease Official Order by Herbert Hoover to Take Effect — Stations Enthused Over Unique System By E. E. Plummer CHICAGO. — -Broadcasting station interference and many other woes of the listener in will disappear at noon, May 15, with the taking effect of the reallocations of wave lengths in accordance with the Second National Radio Conference. The plan to end QRM, as "interference" is known in Radio code abbreviations, has been signed by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, and provides for 34 distinct and well separated wave lengths for Class B stations in 36 different (Continued on page 2) :■'■.•■:' ":■ Following the recent broadcast of Miss Made. laine Borschneck-Bossi from Station WOR, Newark, N. J., we received numerous requests to print the picture of the "lady with the night ingale voice." If you were one of the fortunate ones who were so charmingly entertained by her, you will admit this talented coloratura soprano is equally charming in appearance as is the sound of her voice over the ether. It is unofficially announced that Miss Bossi will again be on one of the early programs of WOR by special ^~m^-^__ request of the many fans ^'•-■v who have heard her before WNAC Gives Jazzmania at Request from Mae Murray BOSTON, MASS. — Mae Murray, the motion picture star, had a special broadcast arranged for her by WNAC (Shepard Stores) on April 13, when she gave a Radio party in New Tork. She has been so pleased with WNAC programs that she made a request that the Colonial Orchestra play "Jazzmania" during her party. TINY RECEIVER TUNES IN WNAC AND OTHERS BOSTON, MASS. — Carlton Margeson, 171 King street, Dorchester, Mass., has built a tiny crystal Radio set that is only four inches long, seven and one-half inches wide, and one and onehalf inches high. The tuner has 500 turns of Number 22 cotton covered wire, with 20 taps 25 turns apart. He gets Station WNAC quite clearly, and even WGI with this set. The total cost was $1.35. WGV DISTANCE RECORD CLAIM SUBSTANTIATED Heard in Alberta, Canada, and Off the Azores NEW ORLEANS, LA. — The record long distance range for the small current used is believed to have been achieved by WGV, broadcasting station of the Interstate Electric Co., this city. The station radiates on one and seventenths amperes and recently received a report from Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada, which arrived simultaneously with a verbal report from the Radio operator of the S. S. Broncho, who came ashore and told L. C. Parker, Jr., of the Interstate company that he had heard WGV programs while at sea off the Azores some weeks ago. "A similar maximum range is claimed by a St. Louis station, but that record fails to approximate the New Orleans) record since the St. Louis station uses a nine ampere current," Mr. Parker declares in an interview with a Digest representative. df'A ll *