The Carbon County news. [volume], October 01, 1925, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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BY R. M. SHERRILL
(Radio Engineer)
(Copyright 1925, by the Bonnet-Brown Corporation, Chicago.)
Amateurs Relay Two Messages Around World
Two messages, both starting from
Columbus, Ohio, U. S. A. have been re
layed 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
■cases, 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 Hartford,
Conn. The second message was start
•ed three days later in the opposite di
rection and went direct to station 2AC
«{ New Zealand, then to French 8QQ,
then to British 2NM, then to U S.
1ARE (Pittsfield, Mass.) and then to
A. R. R. L. headquarters at Hartford.
These transmissions took place on
Wave lengths around 20 meters.
WGY on Four Wavelengths Simultan
eously
Following the lead of KDKA, who
has for some time been broadcasting
on two wavelengths, WGY is now
transmitting its regular programs on
four separate wavelengths. Besides
the regular wavelength of 379.5 me
ters, the wavelengths of 38, 109 and
1660 meters will be used. Different
calls are being used for each wave-1
length, the calls being 2XAF, 2XK and
2XAH respectively.
The General Electric Co. is asking
for reports on the comparative reccp
tion at the different wavelengths. Re
ports which have already come in show
that the 38 meter transmissions are
coming in exceptionally well at great
distances.
American Firm Erects Czecho-Slo
vakian Station
The contract for the contraction and
equipping of a new broadcasting sta
U. S. Amateur Stations Against Tropical
Expedition
Amateur radio again distinguished
Itself when it established reliable com
munication between the Hamilton
Eice Expedition and the United Sttaes. j
This expedition is engaged in the I
study of tropical disease and in mak
ing a survey of the territory along the 1
Amazon River in Brazil. The ex
plorers were equipped with radio for 1
communicating on the usual commer- j
cial wavelengths, and had made no
previous arrangements for amateur
assistance.
When the communication on com
mercial wavelengths became unsatis
factory, the explorers succeeded in es
tablishing reliable communication with
amateur stations in and around New
York City. Stations 2CVS, 2MC and
2AG have been of valuable assisatnee, i
and station 2BR in New York City !
was in communication with the expe
dition almost every night for four
months.
Many messages relating to the work
and the supplies of the expedition
were handled. Also many personal
messages to the families of the ex
were delivered over the telephone and,
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been let to an American firm, accord
ing to an announcement by the Czech
Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs,
The station is to use a power of about
five kilowatts and a wavelength of
500 meters. The cost of the station is
estimated at about $90,000.
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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 erected
in Lincolnshire, England, for the pur
pose of transmitting to India and to
Australia.
These beam stations use a specially
constructed antena, with a reflector
which propagates the waves in one di
rection only. Thus much less power is
required to cover ,a given distance, and
in addition, there is greater secrecy
to the messages transmitted.
As the sizes of the antena and its
reflector must be made proportional
to the wavelength, these beam trans
mitters necessarily make use of the
shorted wavelengths,
A. R. R. L. Viligance Committees
Successful
Reports from various parts of the
United States indicate that the A. R.
R. L. Vigilance Committees have been
highly successful in bringing about
peaceful cooperation between broad- j
cast listeners-and the transmitting
amateurs.
It will be remembered that these
committees were to be formed in every
locality where there was trouble from
transmitting interference,
mittces consisted in each case of three
A. R. R. L. amateurs, a representative
broadcast listener and a representative
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in some instances, answers were re
turned in less than ten minutes,
Radio Reception on Pike's Peak
Colorado experimenters who braved
ibe perils of a climb to the snow
capped crest of Pike's Peak this sum
mer> report good radio reception from
that point. A program from KOA
ca me in with good volume on their
single tube set, and at that high al
titude the static was negligible com
pared with what it was at the normal
altitude.
The men who made the climb did
not complete their experiments due
to suffering from the extreme cold
and altitude, but they remained over
night on the peak and listened in on
broadcasting wavelengths,
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Amateurs Fight to Hold 150-200 Meter
Wavelengths
zln answer to the frequent sugges
lions, that the broadcasting conges
tion be relieved by talking over the
150 to 200 meter Amateur wave
lengths, the Amateurs have raised
strenuous objections. Through the
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will be outstanding features of broad
casting programs.
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created an innovation, inasmuch as
Mr. K, M. Turner, the Director, (in-j
ternationally known as the inventor
of the original microphone and all
wave radio set, bearing his name),
after making a close canvass of more
than ten thousand radio owners, has
reached the conclusion that the owners
of radio sets should be allowed to se
lect the type of program that they
wash to hear, the same as they select
the type of entertainment when they
pay for theatre tickets.
This has resulted in well-known
radio stars taking charge of definite,
fixed hours during which selected pro
grams, ranging from vaudeville to
classical music, will be put on the air.
It has been found that many parties
are arranged, depending upon these
fixed programs for the entertainments.
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boast that reached Fort Benton. She
blew up about fifteen miles below the
mouth of Popular river in Roosevelt
county, Montana. A man spilled whis
American Radio Relay League head
quarters, the Amateurs have pointed!
out ih.it — whilt it is trut that 8.» &
of them are operating below 150
meters—60% of the radio traffic they,
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handle is carried on above 150 meters.
The A. K. R. L. has carried its pro-1
tests to the Department of Commerce,
and has received assurance that the
department has not yet given the plan
any consideration. The department
has also assured the Amateurs that
they will be represented whenever the
plan comes up for consideration.
Q.—VV. J. G. asks: "(1) What is
the proper charging rate for the Ed
sion Storage B batteries? (2) How
be
Ans —(1) Anywhree from 1 to 3
tenths of an ampere would make a
suitable charging rate. (2) The freq
uency of charging depends upon how
much current your receiver draws and
upon how much you use it. Use a
voltmeter on the batteries and re
charge them whenever the voltage
often should these batteries
charged ?
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RADIO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ,
[Mr. Sherrill will be glad to help you solve your radie
problems. Write him in care of this paper.]
Q.— P. H. B. says:
"I have con
structed a short wave receiver and
would ijke to know if it will necessary
to put up a short antenna for it. The
top part of my regular antenna con
Ans. —You can use your regular an
tenna for short wavelengths by insert
ing a small fixed condenser in the
antenna wire. Try putting a 250
mmfd condenser in the antenna wire
and put one also in the ground wire.
Q.— H. L. says: "I have been using
a Tungar Battery Charger for my A
battery for over a year, but when I
connected it up to the battery the
other day it burned out all five tubes,
sists of two wires about 70 ft. long.'
PRICELESS CARGOES
ARE BURIED IN THE
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MISSOURI RIVERS
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Miles City, Sept. 27.—Buried be
i ncath the shifting sands of the Yel
j lowstone and Missouri rivers rest the
I treasure ships of the West's frontier
idays, their skeletons still holding vast
stores that, baaed on government re
ports, are conservatively valued at
$50,000,000.
Cargoes of priceless
pelts, gold, silver, whiskey, quicksilver
and various merchandise sank in the.
treacherous waters of the two streams
and most of them remain there today,
in the opinion of Elmer Ellsworth
Wenner, who is spending a few days
in the city making plans for their re
covery. He has spent a quarter of a
century studying the rivers and lear
ing of the wrecks they hold. He has
salvaged part of one valuable wreck
after is had been sunk thirty years,
He believes that the cargoes of others
may be recovered by systematic search
Steamboating on the Missouri river
began 103 years ago when a fleet of
jsix river steamers were built under
and work.
Steamboating Century Ago
drops 15% below normal.
q _rp. ^ says: "I have been
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and turn the crystal slightly so as to
expose a new surface. Cleaning the
old surface wil not help.
I ha\o a 6 volt
storage battery which is less than a
year eld- This battery has not been
used for several months however, and ^
refuses to take charge from my Tun
K ar charger. U ould it help to put in
a fresh solution?"
Ans. —No. It is likely that the bat
tery plates are sulphated from stand
ing discharged so long. Take the bat
tery to a charging station and have
it charged until the sulphation is
broken down.
Q.—A. J. says:
It was connected in the same way in
j which I have always used it before,
j What could cause it to burn out the
tubes?"
Ans. —In the old type Tungar
Chargers an auto-transformer was
used. Thus one side of your 110 volt
line was connected to your battery
through the charger. As one aide of
1 each filament is grounded, it will be
seen that if the connection to the 110
volt line is such that the "live" side is
connected to the ungrounded side of
the filaments, there wil ibe 110 volts
directly across the tubes. This danger
may be eliminated by putting a 2000
mmfd condensed in the ground lead.
, government contract for use with the
ill-fated Yellowstone military expedi
tion that had as its object the estab
lishment of a fortified post at the
mouth of the Yellowstone river. The
expedition proved a costly failure and
one of the boats was sunk in the Mis
souri river near the mouth of the Yel
I lowstone. This was the Thomas Jef
| ferson, and it was the first Missouri
j river steamer wreck.
There were a few other wrecks of
government steamboats between then
and the beginning of the American
Fur company's steam navigation in
1831, one of the boats being the George
j Washington, which went down as the
result of striking a snag below Council
Bluffs, la. The American Fur Co.
| lost several boats with valuable car
\ goes. One of these was the Assinni
boine, which was grounded in 1836
: near the present site of Bismark. This
boat was a single engine sidewheeler,
and in 1833 it had the distinction ôf
! carrying Maxmilian, Prince of Wied,
to Fort Union, at the mouth of the
Yellowstone. Her cargo of 1,185 packs
! of pelts and robes was lost when,
[ after being stranded, the boat caught
fire. Four live buffalo being taken
to St. Louis were run into the river
and escaped. In 1862 the Pontiac
[ went down with a cargo of 600 barrels
of whiskey, 560 casks of wine and 600
casks of brandy, none of which ever
, was recovered. The Louisville, load
ed with qiucksilver, whiskey and gen
eral stores went down forty miles be
low Sioux City. At this same spot are
eight other sunken steamers. The
river has changed its course and the
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Most Costly Wreck
One of the most costly wrecks was
that of the American Fur company's
boat, the Kate Swinney, that went
down about fifty miles above Sioux
City in 1856. It carried the furs of
two seasons valued at hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Another great
loss of the Fur company was through
the explosion on the Chippewa at Dis
aster Bend in 1861. It was the first
steamboat that passed above the
mouth of the Marias river to Fort Me
Kenzie and was one of the first two
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fire from a candle he was carrying.
He jumped in the river, but the fire
^ ad s P re ®d to the boat. The ship was
beached and its crew left. After
floating two mile8 down gtream twen .
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ty . five kegs of powder it was carrying
exploded. Altogether, between 1819
and 1898 there were more than 205
steamers sunk in the Missouri and
Yellowstone. Eighty per cent of these
were wrecked by striking snags.
No Expert
"Dan, what's a heifer—is it a pig or
is it a sheep?" asked two sailors,
Dan paused reflectively. Then he
said: "To tell you the truth, mates, I
don't know much about poultry."—
Progressive Grocer,
Married Life
Wife; (wcari'y, putting a plate of
biscuits on the table) "A woman's
work is never done."
Hubby: (pushing plate of biscuits
away) "Right you are."
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