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The Wingham Advance Times, 1925-09-24, Page 7AMATEURS RELAY TWO MESS AGES AROUND WORLD By R. M. Sherrill (Radio Engineer) Two messages, both starting from Columbus, Ohio, U. S. A. have been relayed completely around the world. The first message went around in an easterly direction and the second one in the opposite direction. The start- ing point of the messages, in both ca- ses, was station 8GZ, operated by Mr. L. G. Windom. The first message went direct to British 2CC, then to British 20D, then to Australian 2CM, then to U.S. 6ABO (Whittier, Calif.) and then to :.. the A. R. R. L. headquarters at Hart - 1 'ford, Conn`. The second message was started three days later in the opposite direction and went direct to station 2AC of New Zealand, then to French 8QQ, then to British 2NM, then to U. S. TARE (Pittsfield, Mass,) and then to A. R. R. L. headquarters at Hartford. These transmissions took place on wavelengths around 20 meters. WGY On Four Wavelengths Simutaneously Following the lead of KDKA, who has for some time been broadcasting on two wavelengths, WGY is now 1 transmitting its regular programs on four separate wavelengths. Besides the New Radio Beam Station For England English experimenters have put con- siderable effort into the development of directional transmitters, or beam stations as they are called in England. One such station is now being erect- ed in Lincolnshire, England, for the purpose of transmitting to India and to Australia. These beam stations use •a spe- cially constructed antenna, with a re- flector which •propagates the waves in one direction only. Thus much less poweris required to cover a given distance, and hi addition, there . is greater secrecy to the messages transmitted. As the sizes of the antenna and :its reflector must be made proportional to the wavelength, these beam. trans- mitters necessarily make us of the shorter wavelengths. A. R. R. L. Vigilance Committees Successful • Reports from various parts of the United States indicate that the A. R. R. L. Vigilence Committees have been highly successful in bringing about peaceful co-operation between broad- cast listeners and the transmitting am- ateurs. ,It will be remembered that these committees were to be formed in ev- ery locality where there was trouble from transmitting interference. The regular wavelength of 379.5 meters, committees consisted in each caseof of three A. R. R. L. amateurs, a re - the wavelengths of38, toeiff and x 6o lis presentative broadcast listener and a meters will be used. Different calls representative of the local press. are being used. for each wavelength, the calls being 2XAF, 2XK and Radio Questions And Answers 2XAH respectively. (Mr. Sherrill will be glad to help The General Electric Co. is asking you solve your radio problems: Write for reports on the cdmparative recep- him in care of this paper.) tion at the different wavelengths. Re- Q. -P. H. B. says: "I have con - ports which have already come in structed a short wave receiver and would like to know if it will be ne- cessary to put .up a shorter antenna for it. 'The top part of my regular !antenna consists of two wires about show that the 38 meter transmissions are coming in exceptionally well at great distances. Ameridan Firm Erects Czecho- ° Slovakian Station 7o ft. long.' Ans.—You can use your regular an - The contract for the construction i tenna for short wavelengths by insert and equipping of a new broadcasting 'ig a small fixed condenser in the an - station in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, tenna wire. Try putting a 250 nunfd has been let to an American firm, ac- condenser in the antenna wire .and cording to an announcement by the put one also inthe ground wire. Czech .Ministry of Posts and Tele -1 Q.—H. L. says: "1 have been using graphs. The station is to use a pow- a Tungar Battery Charger for my A er of about five kilowatts and a wave- battery for over a year, but when I length of Soo meters, The cost of the connected it up to the battery the oth- station is estimated at about $9o,000. er day it burned out all five tubes. It °ME day will come the opportunity of your, life -time. You may need money to take full advantage of it. Start now to save a regular portion of your earnings. The Dominion Bank protects its depositors by faithful practice of prudent management. zo THE WINGHAM BRANCH, 3. A. WALLACE, Manager, unerantrAtram set: YE`3! rfS A F1tiit WAY YOU'RE MANAGING OUR. P1NANCtA1, AFFAIRS! WERE GONNA BE GATIINt3 OLD SO rE O 'i ' SE DAYS THEN WHO'LL TAKt CARt cm us cert DiZIP Al was connected in the same way in which I have always used it before. What could cause it to burn out the tubes?" Ans.—In the old stype Tuiigar Char- gers,>an auto -transformer was. used. Trus one side of your ixo volt line was eonnected to your buttery through the charger, As one side of each filament is grounded, it will be seen that if the connection to the no volt line is such that the "live" side is connected to the ungrounded side of the filaments, there will be xxo volts di tl th t b s Th' d ree y across e u e . is an-; 'ger may be eliminated by putting a 2000 mrnfd condenser in the ground lead. CALIFORNIA'S DIAMOND JUBILEE We are pleased to be permitted to publish the following letter from ivIiss Olive Currie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, j. T. Currie. It is decriptive of the Labor Day celebration and the celebrating of the 75th year since California jpined'the Union. "We are having our Labor Day Cele- bration here and Admission Day is Wednesday, 75 years since, Califorri- ia joined the Union. So we are hav- ing the Diamond Jubilee here all week. They have gone to a great deal of expense and the cityis very beautifully decorated. • The Jubilee colours are red, orange and green and those colours in flags, bannhrs, pen- nants etc., along with "Old Glory" the Calif. poppy and the bear are all over the place. Civic Centre is- beautiful especially at night when the white building and gilded dome ball is lit up by powerful searchlights, There is ,an arch of 75 thousand different lights all woven into a beautiful .pat- tern and -this arch in front of the City Hall is all lit up from each side by powerful lights with changing colours red, orange, green, . blue, violet, all colours of the rainbow, It is snag= nificient The Lord Mayor of Lon- don radioed to Mayor Ralph 'here. They had magaphones on loud spea- kers or whatever it is to reproduce it at Civic Centre. Jack Dempsey is in town for the boxing contest and Ma- dame- Schumann .Reinke is here tbi sing. At the Imperial, one of the best picture houses here, they are showing "The Pony Express" showing the in- auguration of the great pony Express which. gave Bill Cody his fame and one of the great factors of drawing cal. into the Union. The first night it was shown a great many of the movie stars came up from L. A. to see the first showing and only those with spe- cial invitation saw it that night. I saw it the next night and it was good. 'There was a big labor parade today, lasted three hours. There will be two more yet this week. San Fran- cisco is full, no room to spare any- where. Market Street and Mission St. and Chinatown and all the rblain thorough- fares have' beautiful street, light and at night when ydu can't see the flags and pennants you can see the multi coloured lights. I meant to see 011 - ie at Salinas this week -end because I would .have all the rest of the week- here for the Jubilee but as Frank was on the way from his house to nine, the car was put on the blink and is now in the garage for a week. I Have not felt so disappointed for many a long day, we would have been there t by Saturday evening, had all day Sun- day and most of Monday to spend out there. Aunt Annie and her hubby. Harry were here a week ago from Sunday night to Tuesday. They came to see me Monday night just as I got home from work and we talked and talked till one o'clock at night front five, Auntie has a notion she would like to go back to see you all. So be sure to write and tell her how glad' you will be to see her after all these ° years. Her family are all, grown now and finishing their educa- tion, Ruby is a full fledged Chiro- practor now, and studying Osteo- pathy,. Harvey, Attorney; Harry, Me- chanical Dentist; Will Commerical Artist. Auntie and her husband have bought a ,2i, acres of beautiful trees • in Van Mup, ‘ a nice suburb of tDvAN L. A, on which ,to build their perm- anent home as soon` as they can seal where they now are.. Write soon as you. can. • Love from Olive. A COMMUNITY PROPOSITION Mr, E. Roy Sayles, formermanager of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, and therefore thoroughly acquainted with the weekly newspaper situation in Canada, says editorially in the columns of his newly -acquired paper, the Renfrew Mercury: "Every- where there is,a growing understand- ing among business men that the newspaper, while an individual busi- ness problem of some publisher, is, at the same time, a community proposi- tion—a community asset. The news- paper serves the community more than it serves the man who publishes it. The time is coming when every- where business men will feel a person- al interest in the newspaper's welfare. The fact is, a community cannot make progress without it, It can exist, but it caprnot grow. With this realiza- tion there : has also come an under- standing that one newspaper serves better than two or three. It has be- come a simple problem of business mathematics to centre the strength of the community behind, the newspa- per that has made itself, through work and service, the strongest journalis- tic factor in the community develop- ment. So far: as Canadian newspapers are concerned there have gone out of business since 1914 fifty daily papers, while 224 weeklies ,have suspended publication or have been absorbed by some other paper in the town. In• some counties of Ontario from four to eight weeklies have suspended. The announcement of newspaper con-, solidations will continue. The result. will be better and more outstanding papers with improved service to ad- vertisers, subscribers and the com- munity generally. « sties RIGHT ALRIGHT! 11 AS TIME WE WUr SAVIN 1*QR OLD AGE!! GOSH‘. $?E 5t4O1' l 4 THAT 1.14 OLD Roes ft L, GAME LAS'S MCIINT ! • HOLYROOD We regret to report that Mr. Ed. Deemer formerly of Holyrood, was ac- cidently electrocuted, whilst following his employment near London on Tues- day. Mr. Ernie Ackert and family return- ed from the C. N. E. on Wednesday. Mr. ad Mrs. Elmer Ackert and their daughter, Gwendoline are taking a trip to the Thousand Islands. ' Mrs. McPherson and her son Don- ny, ,spent Friday with friends at Ash- field. Messrs. John Barr and jack Thorn- ton returned from Toronto on Sat urday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Eadie, spent Sun- day at the home of the latter's' moth- er, Mrs. Culbert. Mr. and Mrs. Will Jackson, spent Sunday with Mr. and. Mrs. Broome, How often .do we hear people say. "Where in the world do all the flies come from?" It is simple enough. The toper makes the blue -bottle Py, the stern father makes the gad fly, the cyclone makes the house fly, the blacksmith makes the fire fly, the driver makes the horse fly, the grocer makes the sand fly, and the boarder Makes the butter fly. An Up-to-date Hotel Board, fifty cents a square foot, meals extra, breakfast at five, dinner ! at six and supper at seven. Guests are requested not to speak to the dumb waiters. !'hose' wishing to get up without being called can have'self- rising flour for supper. Not respon- sible for diamonds, bicycles or other valuables kept under the pillows. They should be 'deposited in ,the safe. tri- cycle playing cards kept for sale at the office, but country visitors are re- quested not to play any game more exciting than Old Maid after 7 p. m. as their noise might disturb the night clerk's slumbers. Guests wishing to do a little driving will find hammer and nails in tlic closet. If the room gets too warm open the window and see the fire escape. If you're fond of athletics and like to see good jump- ing lift the mattress. 'SFUNNY WORLD Chicago aldermen want to hang tail -lights on saddle horses ridden, by folks after dark, Next thing they'll want to do is put "Stop -lights" ori the hind hoofs of a mule. Then all you have to do is to get the mule mad and ;see if the lights work, --0-- Can you imagine being , stopped by a coup ani told your "horses's tail -light is out?" -p- Some smart Aleck is advising our women folks to quit cigafettes and smoke cheroots. Say—youldn't;. a flapper look nice coming down the street all dolled up like a new soda fountain with a tight-fittng dress, rolled stockings, painted lips, rouged cheeks; patent leather eye -brows and —aL Pittsburgh stogie parkedin one corner of her mouth a la Joe' Cannon? —0_- ..."U. S. Court Decides The Right Of Motorists"—news item....._Didn't know they had been deprived of any.— -....... -0- The Prince of Wales on his recent trip to Africa had to listen to as many as twenty-eight addresses of welcome in one day. And under a hot, sweltering sun. Bet all the time he was wishing he could have been falling off his horse that many times. It • wouldn't have hurt so much. -0- B-R-R-R! Leading•lights*of the refrigator trust were fined in court the other day. They got an icy stare from the judge, a cold turndown to their pleas and all they could do was pay their fines with a shiver. —0— Fish peddlers have been forbidden to clean their fish in the streets of Washington. Which mads the said f.p s wonder what about the "scales of .Justice?" -0- IT CAN'T BE DID! The claim, of having used the same back -collar button for the last twenty-eight years—is made by an Arkansas. man. And he vigorously declares he never lost it once. Wonder if he wore the same shirt all that time? —o— A Toronto justice has ruled that a man missing seven years cannot be called- "dead." So if any man owes you money, you'll have to continue searching all over h-1 for him for the rest of your life. • Or— The Rin -Tin -Tin Leap 1 Man in Cambridge, Mass. has a f]ivver that does the Kangaroo Hop. Ha. Ha. Maybe the evolution theory is right? The best the flivver used to-do was the Shivering Shimmy or : Alligator Wcbalu, —0— Ordinances ht‘ve been, introduced in several of the lar- ger cities to : ..ke milkmen wear rubber soles on their shoes and put rubber tires on their wagon wheels so as not to disturb the early morning sleep of us mortals. Very good idea. Now if they will only provide said milkmen with Maxine silencers for their voices and rubber milk bot- tlts that can be thrown against our back doors without nrakiog a sound—all will be well. What say? —o -- A bencvc:cant Chicagoan has offered free courses in Shoe Repairing. What a kind-hearted sole. Sew anxi- ous to helix. FAMOUS LAST LINES (From the boss)—"You may take (he afternoon off to go to the ball game!" "1 L1SSEN HONEY! 6UPPOSIN WE TRY A NEW ARRANGEMENT LTA 0418 ANDNEY AFVAIRS !'.WU' N xLEfl YO 11 Q1-1, Go00'i'! HM -RA' 1; AtNOW VOW 12,161. DO -NOW t CAN GET Ti°hiFt FU1t. COAT avC SEEN WANTING SO LONG rr�wk,tot Two '?1►� � ontikierms 111