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Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 12

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Herald and Reviewi
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Decatur, Illinois
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IZ JECATUR HERALD SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1930. DECATUR HERALD America, was the nam. the western hemisphere in f7 the explorer. Amerw "oast NEARBY STATIONS MAY BE TOO LOUD WAVE TRAPS SHOULD REDUCE INTERFERENCE CHAIN BROADCASTS Over the Radio They're The Lady Bugs, At Home Portuguese, who was the son after Columbus to Bumper Radio Year Seen By Broadcasters Commission May Double Number Of Big Stations western nemlspbere.

a Excessively strong local stations can be taken care of by the use of Actual Interference Can Be Prevented By Use of Good Wave Trap It's "Muriel" and "Vee" wave trape in the antenna circuit le for each interfering station. Another year may see the 40 clear If Its on I 8:00 a. m. The Balladeers (NBC) WEAF, WOW, WSB, WHO. Morning Musicale (CBS) WABC, WIBW, WWNC, WLAC.

9:00 a. m. Lew White at the Console (NBC) WEAF. 12:00 The Pilgrims (NBC) WJZ, KDKA, WLW, WHAM. 1:00 p.

m. Metropolitan Echoes (NBC) WEAF, KSD, WOC, WHO, WGR. Cathedral Hour (CBS) WABC, These should be adjusted for the desired reception from each station. ed channels now used exclusively or There are so many hundreds of In planning to make 1931 ths most Interesting and progressive in broadcasting Pres. M.

H. Aylesworth of the National Broadcasting has estimated that it will cost approxi part time by 85 stations operating with 50,000 watts or greater power. broadcasting stations in this country This may require that some of the that thousands of radio listeners are wave traps be slightly detuned. In- While the federal radio commission has been slow to accede to the de The Air RCA 80 unable to avoid the reception diffi stal wave traps as close as possible culties caused by a broadcasting to the receiver. The primary on plant located within a few miles or less of their homes.

the wave trap should be connected in series with the antenna and the rotor of the wave trap condenser should be connected to the ground. mands of the high power advocates, the first session of super-power hearings held this week left the regulatory body with little defense except the stand pat axiom: "We should make changes slowly." Will Get It! Actual interference from these nearby stations, which may prevent satisfactory reception from other sta WMAL, WFBM, WCCO, WIBW. Roxy Symphony concert (NBC) WJZ, KDKA, KYW, WRC, WSB, WLW. 2:00 p. The Friendly Hour (NBC) WJZ, KDKA, WJR, WLW, WLS.

2:30 p. m. Southland Sketches mately $10,000,000 to provide talent for sponsored and sustaining programs to be broadcast by his organization during the year. This is not the major cost of broadcasting, however, for it will cost another $20,000,000 in operations. Aylesworth estimated.

Brings Bettor Service. "We plan to make the year 1931 the most interesting and progressive; in radio broadcasting," Aylesworth nald. "Owners of radio sets can be assured of front seats at a continu-j tions, can usually be prevented by Even an impartial observer would The Jiew Radioia the addition of a good wave trap. bia network. This talk will emanate from the Tenth Presbyterian church be forced to admit that the high is selective to the Nth dezSr Station you tune in eeUrTTi( ferenro from 1 In listening to these stations, how power advocates won the first round in Philadelphia.

David W. Guion will be the featur ever, another difficulty may be met. Even though the volume control is set at minimum, the station may come in too strongly, and only by above or below it That alone lifts the model 80 h31' shoulders above any Radiol I iously made. "uol. of the five-week engagement with the commission.

The secret of their success was that they united their resources In friendly fashion and turned the full forces of their combined guns on the commission order ed artist of Metropolitan Echoes to be broadcast over an NBC network Its there with tone a this afternoon at 1 o'clock. Included in this program will be "Nobody Knows de Trouble I See" and "Little David." (NBC) WEAF. 3:00 p. m. South Sea.

Islanders (NBC) WJZ, WBZA, WHAM, WBAL, WJR, WLW, WLS, KDKA. 5:00 p. tn. Catholic Hour (NBC) WEAF, WRC, WGY, WWJ, WSM, KSD, WGR, WOC, KYW. Fox Fur Trappers (NBC) WAEC, WNAC, WCAU, WHK.

6:30 p. m. Williams Oilomatics which limits the maximum power ous 365 day and night performance of the world's finest entertainers, together with highlights of public events, sports and public affairs, with impressive programs in religi ask you to listen to at yonrV opportunity. wt tuning the dial a little "off" the correct point can the volume be reduced sufficiently. Detuning the set in this way impairs the tone quality, however, and it is poor practise.

The trouble is that the set is getting too much energy from the aerial and the only- stations to half, or 20, of the cleared channels. Should the commission stick to its announced limitation policy, only With a background of poetic readings by David Ross, Walter Kolo-moku and his famous Honoluluans will broadcast a program of Ha Complete f1 Installed M()U $142.50 withont Eadiotron, (NBC) WJZ, WBZ, WHAM, WLW, WGN, KDKA. eight new assignments in the superpower field are available. But the applicants are striving mightily to waiian music over WABC and the Columbia Broadcasting chain at 11 6:35 p. m.

Major Bowes' Family ous, educational and agricultural! broadcasting. "In other words, the year 1931 will; bring to the people of the United States greater public service through1 radio broadcasting." I Continuous experimentation by en-i gineers at the Schenectady (N. laboratory of General Klectric has! resulted in a transmitter for one of Station WGY's short wave permits, W2XAF, that can perform almost incredible feats in the art of radio. o'clock this evening. This program will conclude with "Aloha Oe." (NBC) WEAF.

WSB, WJAR WRC, WGY, WWJ, KSD, WHO, WOC. C. R. Willis persuade the commission to open up the entire cleared channel band to 50,000 watt, or greater stations. Prof.

C. M. Jansky, of Washington said that the restrictions of maximum power stations to half of the cleared channels was ill advised technically and is a "waste" of radio Songs about eyes of every descrip Enno Jettick shoes sold exclusively way to stop this is to use a. smaller aerial. As a' rule the set will pick up enough energy with the aerial disconnected.

If this proves to be the case a simple single contact switch may be located behind the set or under the radio table and the aerial lead joined to one side of the switch. The antenna post of the set is connected to the other terminal. Opening the switch disconnects the aerial and permits normal reception of the nearby station just as if the set were many miles further away. by Greenberg's, 135 E. Prairie, 7:00 p.

m. Enna Jettick Melodies RCA Sets Service 249 North Main street (NBC) WJZ, WHAM, KYW, WJR tion will be heard when a quartet and ensemble present the program over an NBC network this afternoon at 3:45 o'clock. The program will open with "Blue Eyes" and will include "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" and "Eyes of Gray." facilities. There is "every technical WSM, WMC, WSB. 7:15 p.

m. Home Music club (CBS) reason why all stations operating on cleared channels should use "at least" 50,000 watts, he said. WABC, WLBW, WJAS, WOWO, KMOX, KMBC. 7:30 p. m.

Chase and Sanborn Choral orchestra (NBC) WEAF, WJAR, WGY, WGR, WSB. 7:45 p. m. Jesse Crawford' (CBS) H. S.

Gebhart Co. WABC, WMAL, WLBW, WCCO, Is Decatur Headquarters for Zenith 1 MURIEL POLLOCK WIBW. VEE LAWkHURST broadcasting. Engineers list this single transmitter's capabilities as follows: Three musiral programs can be broadcast simultaneously without interference. Television Coming? Six separate, independent and non-interfering voice channels are available and would enable broadcast of aix different addresses on separate wave lengths without interference.

Television signals up to 60-line uranning can be broadcast at the rate of 20 pictures per second. Television and voice transmission at the same time is possible, using: two channels. Simultaneously transmission of. iight still pictures is possible, each going out on its own wave length, 8:15 p. m.

The Vikings (NBC) WJZ, her to i mode while still subjected -v. NEW YORK, Oct. 12 KWK. WREN, WJR, KYW. Atwater Kent Hour (NBC) WEAF, WGY, KSD, WSB, WSM, WOW, WOC, WWJ WHO.

i viaiLdi iiauiLiuiiui training, ana Vt P'an0S n.aigained commercial recognition when llw 'iwZ'. Z1 she had left her 'teens. She was ably listening to Muriel Pollock and; tt0fJ and 9:00 p. m. Mavhew Lake and His Band (CBS) WABC WMAL, WLBW, WLAC.

9:15 p. m. Studebaker Champions Z. of achieving personal publicity in and a half of their association as "The Ladv Bugs." volunteer days and gained v. i 1 much from the recording companies Tall, auburn-haired Vee (she was: j- ,5 as i direct and indirect result.

For christened that wav) and small, bru-i t- i a time before she joined forces with nette Molly comprise this outstand-l Muriel she was a member of (NBC) WEAF, WFI, WRC, WGY, WWJ, WGN, WOW. KSD. 9:45 p. Ponce Sisters (NBC) WJZ, WHAM, WJR, LOS ANGELES POLICE TO HAVE RADIO CARS idea is generally credited as being: g' original with Miss Pollock. i Now two rehearse each morn- 10:15 p.

m. Sam Herman (NBC) PAUSE A MOMENT BEFORE A ZENITH YOU BUY ANY RADIO i Not only do they write their own: for seevra' noun at the two The advantage heretofore given clever arrangements together but pianos ln Muriel's apartment and Criminals in the time handicap taken, there is no such thing as a "first! share a tremendous enthusiasm for for police to drive from a central piano" and a "second piano" when botn their work and swimming, station or ot be reached by telephone this pair is on the air. They seek otnerwise a diversity of extra-musi-on a beat close to the scene of the, a.d obtain a blending of the two cal interests exists with Muriel lik- stramenlj onrt tmiw trm.i "'5 acnieiics ana tne tneater ana WEAF. WRC. WGY, WWJ, WOC, WHO, WOW, WSB.

10:30 p. m. Reminiscences (NBC) WJZ, WREN, KWK, KDKA. 11 :00 p. m.

Coral Islanders (CBS) WABC, WEAN, WNAC. Listening In "Long, Long Ago" will be sung by The Balladeers during their broadcast over stations associated with the NBC Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. Other numbers to be offered in this morning program will be such favor phonic jazz. Vee admitting a sneaking fondness for anagrams, and then there's her three vears old son. Thev both srilo Composed Melodies As composer, each has a group ofi too.

but like themselves "hest work- crime is to be reduced to a matter of mere minutes even seconds in some cases so enabling police to arrive at the scene of a crime almost simultaneously with the report. The radio and the automobile are teamed to perform this miracle of 3330. Radio receiving sets of low wave lengths are to be installed in Los Angeles police cars. These sets, capable of rereiving nothing but the Instructions from a central police broadcasting station, crime reports directly to patrolmen on beats within the very district from which the report comes rather than to a police station where time must be popular melodies to her credit. Mu-j ing together.

riel goes a bit deeper and now isj working on the score of her second! AUDITION AGiXY musical comedy destined for Broad-; Plan3' already ar9 under wav for way producUon. Her first effort, the fourth nat.iona radio to when she was 14, was not copynght- be held again thjs vear the At ed and she still winces occasionally water Kent Folmdation. Plang and to hear numbers she wrote played this year wi be the same the recent compositions of utter A boy and girl will be selected strangers. ifrom each district and from this ites as "My Old Kentucky and "A Wish for You." No oprrfm rbbustrmt tt Anwnd. In like Rev.

Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse will discuss "The Dog's Place" in s. sermon at 4 o'clock this afternoon over station WABC and the Colum- Vee has another plaving back- plaj-ing group the 10 winners will be picked. ITS EASY TO SENSE THE SUPERIORITY OF A ZENITH ground which is strikingly different from the phonograph recording ex perience so usual among radio head-liners. She used to, and still does.

THE GOLDEN VOICE OF RADIO make original 7jlayer piano rolls. lost in placing officers on the scene of the crime. NOW AND THEN The oldtime wireless operator key weighed about 50 pounds. The key today weighs less than 150 ounces. Six years after she was born in Kingsbridge.

N. 20 years ago. little Miss Pollock began studying the piano. All in the classic tradition of course. At 14, she was good enough for a job as pianist in a mov ing picture theater, which she held Radio Dealers' Daily Directory until she was 21.

After five years So your mind is made up! Why not pause a moment before you buy? Perhaps you haven't heard all the radios. Perhaps you have roiiied the new Zeniths. By all means, don't! The new 70 scries Zenith Radios are the finest receiving instruments in America. This is a serious ckim. As an intelligent person, you demand proof.

Zenith invites at institute of Musical Art in New York she started on her two cabinets. Note the Zenith Automatic Tuning feature the only genuine press-the-but-ton tuning device beyond comparison. Is a Zenith better than the radio you had planned to buy? Go to a Zenith itself for the answer. And the answer will be unmistakable. You will find, as thousands of others have, that "It's easy to sense the superiority of a Zenith." real careers.

Begins Her Career She appeared with Constance Mer-ing to introduce the score for two pianos, playing together in the musi- cal comedy "Rio "Upsa frttV Ri J'J'P ''Ce', KIMBALL GRANDS. PLAYERS I I AND PIANOS KIMBALL, BOSCH. ATWATER KENT AND PHILCO RADIOS Radio Parts and Service KIMBALL PIANO HOUSE Phone 2-047 149E Main St. I Daisy was followed by her own "Pleasure Bound," interspersed with You WHI Be Proud tours to Europe and the west coast, later with Vee. While the two girls, shortly to be known as "The Lady Fingers." now play jazz rhythms harmonized in the classio manner, exclusively, Muriel has continued to write such things as compositions I iur aaiun orcnesiras wnen not dusv I rehearsing and the exigencies of musical comedy composition.

Vee decided upon the modern I I To Own a you to put the decision up to your own eyes and ears. Note how these new Zeniths maintain their enjuisite tone quality at mairimnf volume, or it a whisper. Test their selectivity. Test every posaible thing you expect of a radio. Look inside.

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