The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, April 29, 1923, HOME EDITION, Page 10-A, Image 9

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    Short Wave Tests
Made in Radio
Supposedly-Worthless E t h e r
Band Below loO Meters
May Prove Useful.
Hartford, Conn.. April 28.—Will
there be a scramble of all radio In
terests to "get in" on the onge sup
posedly worthless ether band below
150 meters wave length?
The onward march of radio trans
mission has undergone so many
changes within a period of mere
months that even the most expert hos
ilate to express an opinion for fear
of being called upon to retract. This
lias been true of most all predictions
about the value of short waves.
In recent werfks there has been a
great deal of comment on the possi
bility of long distance communication
below .150 meters and it is only natur
al that the amateur should again dem
onstrate that lie is tlie pioneer when
it conies in this partlcuiai phase of
radii) development.
During the. recent <Q, short wave,
test party under American Radio Re
iay league auspices 601.' an amateur
station operated by Archie Wade of
465 North Rake street. Dos Angeles,
transmitting on a wave length of 120
meters, was heard in every state in
the union. This station holds the rec
md for short wave transmission, the
power being only five watts.
Olhe long distance records on short
waves have been reported by ama
teurs who participated in the A. R
R. D. short wave lesls. It would HP
pear from this information that much
better results can tie obtained on 150
meters thaw is ordinarily the case on
( 200 meters, the band commonly used
by amateurs.
As the more powerful commercial
nations operate on wave lengths be
tween 1.000 and 25,000 meters, the
short wave tests are just another in
dicatlon that the most successful ra
dio transmission will be at the two
extremes, also that the region below
150 meters Is well worth further in
vestigation.
Farmers Install
Sets for Sending
Advent of Undamped Wave
Set Enables Transmission
from Rural Districts.
Kansas City, Mo,, April 28.—Radio
transmitting sets have been installed
tecently on a number of farms in
western Missouri.
This Is eontrary#to the belief that
th* farmer's only interest in radio is
the ability to receive market reports.
Indications h>re are that the farmer
has developed a hankering for long
distance transmission.
Formerly a spark transmitter of
the usual type was Impractical un
less a .commercial electrical supply
was at hand. The advent of the un
damped wave set, using improved
vacuum tubes to produce the high
frequency energy necessary. ha*
placed the farmer on a basis with
the city dweller.
One station near Tarldo. which is
operated by R. O. Wolf, a member
of the American Radio Relay league,
uses one amplifier tube and a home
made spark coil in the now famous
"spark coil C. W." circuit. His sig
nals are heard regularly in Kansas
City and Omaha in daylight.
Another farmer, near Warrenburg.
' has succeeded In qovering TOO air
miles between that place and El Paso,
Tex . using a spark coil and the 32
volt battery of his farm lighting plant
to supply the energy for the coll. He
operates his set on a schedule with
other stations in Sedalia and Kansas
City.
This would indicate tbit even with
the older type of transmitter, one no
longer need think of the farm as no
place for a sending set."
Omaha Distributing Point
for Radio Supply Firms
Due to her central location. Omaha
has become a great distributing point
for the manufacturer who wants to
reach and cover this territory with
his product.
One of the concerns which located
here flvd years ago and which has
helped to make Omaha the "gateway
for th? east and west.’* Is the Me
Oraw company, located at 120S-10-12
Harney street. They also have houses
in Sioux City. Ia.. and St. Eouis. Mo.
They are distributors for the follow
ing lines: Westinghniin* Electrical It
Mfg. Co., Simplex Wire & Cable com
pany. Hurley Machine company. West
inghouse I-rfunp company. Harvey
Hubbeli company, incorporated , Pass
K Seymore and the Radio Corporation
of America.
They will show a number of their
dectrica! household appliances and a
•omplete line of tlielr radio sets and
■quipment at the Better Homes show
t the Auditorium April 29 to May 5.
Amateurs Break Records
Hartford. Conn.. April 28.—Radio
amateuis of North America during
March handled the greatest anjount
of traffic In any single month on rec
ord, a total of 160,000 messages. It
was announced today by F. II.
Schnell, traffic manager of the Amer
ican Radio Relay league. This is a
gain of 38,508 messages over the pie
tedlng month.
New Sales Manager
for Power Compan
I - II . . ■ I
lii-niH'tli liiiewry.
i J. K. Davidson, general manager of
the Nebraska Power company, an
! nounced Inst night that Kenneth
Hoewey, assistant sales manager of
the company, will succeed Walter S
rtyrne, sales inajnager, who leaves on
May 1.
Mr. Byrne retigned to become as
sistant treasurer of the Thomas Kil
patrick company.
Mr. lioewey attended the University
of Vermont. He joined the Nebraska
Power company in 1!H7. coming from
the Milwaukee Kleetric Railway and
1-ight company. He has had l*i years’
experience in the electrical industry.
While with the U.eneral Kleetric
company he worked under the per
i sonal direction of William Stanley, in
ventor of the transformer.
Barrel of Letters Reply
to Brandeis Radio Program
More than a barrel of letters was
received by .1. L. Brandeis ^Sons fol
lowing the broadcasting of music by
. the Arnold Johnson #orches!ra from
radio station WOAW on April ?0
The letters are from |>ersons who "lis
tpned in” on the concert, which was
played ih the Brandeis restaurant and
! carried by special wire to the broad
casting station.
The letters came from points as far
distant as St. Paul. Minn.; New Mcx
ico. New Jersey. Ontario, Can.; San
Uatchewan. (’an., and Colotado.
Included in the reports are letters
from Reynold Benson of Randall.
Wis ; Wallace Craighead. Haliburton.
Ont.; J. R. Tapster, North Bend, Neb,:
li. K. Harrison. St. Paul, Minn.; Pal
mer Gibson, Farmington. N. M ; Uen
rv Goodrich. Newark, N. J . Alvin
FJokdahl. Craig. Neb.; Charles W.
Sims, Wichita. Kan ; Kllwyn Patrick,
Storm Lake, lo ; Mr and Mrs. Isaacs,
Stoughton. Sask.; Hiram Montgomery,
Skidmore. Mo.: Paul Anderson. Flor
ence, Neb : Lee Shaffer. Klk City,
Kan.; A. K. Crowther. Regina, Sask.;
F. R. Graham, Hamilton, Ont.;; U. A.
Simmons. Araphoe, Col., and K. IJ.
Finkle, Bellevue. Ont.
Spaniards Used Mahogany
from Karliest Days in U. S.
From the dny of the earliest settle
ments in America the Spaniards used
mahogany. They utilised it for build
ing ships as early as 1521 and until
1540, when the first allusion to thftt
kind of wood ft made by Cortex in
connection with further voyages of
discovery after the conquest of Mex
ico.
Gh>bf Change* Light.
When h different lighting uchcm# i*
dfMired by the ho*t*M«i for her party.
it is not necessary for her to change
the expensive shades of her floor and
other lamps. A new' colored glass
cover is purchasable at horn* furnish
ings stores and is obtainable in any
hue nr tint preferred. It covers the
bulb or bulbs of the lamp.
Buzzards Haiti Windmill.
I.a Conner. Wash.—A pnlr of tur
key buzzards each day alight on the
counterweight of th« windmill on tha
F. 1{. Stark rahoh near here, Th«
birds remain an hour or ao. then dis
appear toward the hill* Stark »ay*
ho I* not superstitions Ten years ago
this section was visited in spring by
a flood which left dretth and destruc
tlon in Its wake.
ADVMlTlBKMR.NT.
FRECKLE-FACE
Hun and Wind Bring Out I gly Spots.
Ilow to Keiunve Ksally.
Here* a chance, Miss Freckle-face,
lo try a remedy for freckles with the
guarantee of a reliable concern that It
will not cost sou a penny unless It
removes (he freckles: while If It does
'give you a dear complexion the ex
pense I* trifling.
Simply get an ounce of Othlne—
double strength—from any druggist
and a few applications should show
- you how easy |t i* to rid yourself of
the homely freckles and get a benuti
t ful complexion. Itarely Is more than
j one ounce needed for the worst case
He sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength Othlne as this
strength Is told under guarantee of
money bark if It fails lo i etrtove
1 freckles.
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