Radio mirror (Jan-Oct 1923)

June _'j\ ro<?i RADIO DIGEST INVISIBLE AUDIENCE HONORS ITS CHURCH KDKA'S AIR CONGREGATION ERECTS BRONZE TABLET Contributions Reach 4,700 for Memorial to First Chapel to Have Services Broadcast PITTSBURGH. — The first Radio memorial tablet in the world — donated by and dedicated to the invisible Radio congregation of Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pa.. — was unveiled during the church services of that congregation recently. Hundreds of men,, women and children witnessed the dedication of the bronze tablet to the unseen Radio congregation which is known to be In the area stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean and from Hudson Bay in the north of Canada to the extreme southern part of Soutn America and which was enlisted when KDKA, one of the pioneer Radiophone broadcasting stations, began to broadcast Calvary Church's services more than two years ago. First Badio Minister Present Rev. Edwin J. van Etten, pastor of the church, who was the first minister in the world to have his services broadcast; Bishop Alexander Mann, of the Pittsburgh Episcopal diocese: H. P. Davis, representing Station KDKA of the Westinghouse Company, which station first broadcast church services, and other prominent Fittsburghers ' took part in the ceremony. More than 4,700 people contributed to the purchase of the tablet. The contributions came in every form of legal tender — silver dimes, stamps, nickles, pennies and checks. A worker in a southern cotton mill sent Dr. van Etten two cotton socks with a nickel in each toe. A sailor from a boat on the Atlantic sent the minister 120 pennies he had won playing penny ante. Listeners Respond Quickly The contributions came as a result of Rev. van Etten's idea that his Radio congregation to which he had been preaching since January 2, 1921, might like to contribute to some sort of memorial. Accordingly during the reading of his regular announcement Dr. van Etten addressed, directly, his unseen hearers and told them of the plan and asked small contributions from such of them as might like to participate. Responses to the idea were almost instantaneous. An hour after the announcement was broadcasted contributions were received from people living in Pittsburgh. People living in the district even walked to the minister's home a few minutes after they had listened in to him and left their contributions, even as he was preaching by Radio. Calgary Signals Heard Off Japanese Coastline 5, 000-Mile. Transmission Sets New Canadian Record CALGARY, ALTA. — What constitutes a record for long distance Radiophone broadcasting in Canada was established by CFCN. the broadcasting station of the W. W. Grant Radio, Ltd., here recently. when it was heard off the coast of Japan, which is "approximately 5,000 miles from Calgary, and in another hemisphere. CFCN signals were heard by L. S. Haire, Radio operator on board the steamship Stuart Dollar, plying between San Francisco and the Orient, when the ship was just out of Yokohama, according to a communication received from Mr. Haire. Actress in Flag Day Address NEW YORK. — One of America's most distinguished actresses, Julia Arthur, gave a patriotic recitation, "The Flag," on Flag Day, before Station WEAFS microphone. Miss Arthur is one of America's favorites and gave much of her time during the war to patriotic service. DEMPSEY MATCH ON CFCN— EVERY PUNCH CALGARY. ALTA.— The GibbonsDempsey world heavyweight championship match at Shelby, Montana, will be broadcast July 4 from Station CFCN of Calgary, owned by \V. \V. Grant, Ltd. A direct wire will run from the ringside to the powerful station. This plant is the nearest super station in the vicinity and has a working range of over 1,000 miles. "AL" SMITH CHOOSES AIR AGAINST PRESS ALBANY, N. Y.— By wire from Albany to Station WGY. Schenectady, Governor Alfred E. Smith reached the ear and mind of the citizens of New York state recently when he gave a report of his stewardship. The report generally reaches the voters through the press. This year Governor Smith talked direct to the people, explaining the financial condition of the state in detail. MAKES CYCLE RIDING EASIER Why shouldn't it be easier to ride a bicycle equipped with a portable set. (Note, the spokes should make a good antenna.) After balancing some regenerative sets it should be less difficult to keep one's balance on a cycle. At least Miss Josephine Kiernan thinks the plan, worth smiling about © K. & H. ARMY-NAVY CONCERTS TO BE SENT OVER U.S. New Washington Plant to Relieve NAA During Summer WASHINGTON. — Although the broadcasting of the government's band concerts by NAA, Arlington, will cease during the summer months, Radiophans within several hundred miles of Washington will be able to pick up some of the concerts if the plans of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company are carried out. By June 18, this company hopes to complete its new station here and start broadcasting the open air public concerts from the White Lot and local parks where the Marine, Navy and Army Bands play almost daily. Through the aid of a new portable input apparatus recently perfected by the telephone engineers, the company expects to furnish the added electricity necessary to pick up concerts and transmit them by wire to their station for broadcasting. This apparatus is mounted on a motor truck and can be dispatched anywhere in the city where something is to be broadcast. Important speeches and some of the concerts wiU be put on a land line to New York and broadcast simultaneously from Station WEAF on a different wave length, it is planned. RADIOS TREATMENT TO INJURED SAILOR SEA-AMBULANCE ANSWERS EMERGENCY APPEAL Vessel Anchored Nine Miles from Land Brings Help by Ether Waves By 1m. M. Lamm WASHINGTON. D. C— The steamship West Cahous, lying at anchor in Baltimore harbor, nine miles from the city, needed medical help at about 3 A. M. recently and needed it quickly. A member of the crew had fallen into the hold and hurt himself seriously. So the captain of the ship sent a Radio broadcast asking help. The call was picked up, not in Baltimore, nine miles away, but at Cape May, N. J., about 100 miles due east of Baltimore. As Cape May was separated from the West Cahous by parts of New Jersey and Delaware and by the eastern shore of Maryland, not to mention Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, no direct help from it was possible. Operator Consults Surgeon But the operator was on the job. Promptly he consulted the long distance list in the Baltimore telephone directly and called up the residence of the Public Health Service, surgeon in charge of the Marine Hospital in Baltimore, 100 miles to the west. The surgeon, roused from sleep to receive the message, asked him to Radio certain emergency treatment to the West Cahous and to direct the captain to send a boat to a certain pier in Baltimore, where he would find a surgeon waiting to go out to the ship with him. And so, in the middle of the night, in less than an hour, a "Radio-controlled," seagoing ambulance carrying a Public Health Service officer reached the side of the injured sailor and brought him later to the hospital. PRIVATE PLANTS TO TAKE LAKE STATIONS Step Necessitated When Navy Quits Nine Plants CHICAGO. — Radio service will be provided for great lakes shipping as the result of a recent agreement of private broadcasters to handle great lakes traffic. R. H. C. Mathews, Station 9ZN, divisional superintendent of the American Radio Relay league, working in co-operation with Station WJAZ, will handle the "code stuff" for this territory. The necessity of getting a private broadcaster to handle the lakes traffic was caused by the navy's withdrawal from nine great lakes stations. In Cleveland, according to an Associated Press report, the Great Lakes Wireless association was organized by vesselmen having boats equipped with Radio. Through this organization, which is headed by Fred L. Leekie, of Cleveland, the navy station at Duluth will be operated by the association and negotiations are reported for the association to take over eight other navy stations. ^_^_^__^^^^_^__ Vermont "U" Plant May Be Link in Army Relay Star Student Station Drafted Co-operate Officially to BURLINGTON, VT. — Owing to their activity and successful work of the past two years, the University of Vermont Radio station, 1ARY, has been selected to go through several tests in preparation for co-operating with the army Radio station at Ft. Ethan Allen in receiving and relaying government messages. The station at the university is under the management and operation of the students, and, has been heard regularly in England this spring. Two years ago this station was one of the first to be heard in the amateur transatlantic tests to Scotland. THE ANTENNA BROTHERS Spir L. and Lew P. Undesirable Outside Interference i