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ROY
MASON,
EDITOR
CONTENTS
FOR
JUNE,
Dr.
Lee
1922
Frontispiece
De
Forest
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THE
MARCH
OF
RADIO
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L.
E.
WHITTEMORE
OBJECTS
THAT
DISTORT
RADIO
WAVES
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TUNING
THE
RADIO
AERIAL
SYSTEM
JOHN
V.
L.
HOGAN
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WHAT
RECEIVING
SET
SHALL
BUY?
J.
CONRAD
FLEMMING
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BROADCASTING
ON
POWER
LINES
WIRE
BROADCASTING
JOHN
F.
DUNCAN
CARE
AND
OPERATION
OF
A
CRYSTAL
RECEIVING
SET
EDGAR
H.
FELIX
KEEPING
THE
STARS
AND
STRIPES
IN
THE
ETHER
I
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101
107
no
115
116
120
COMMANDER
STANFORD
C.
HOOPER,
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RADIO
PERSONALITIES
R.
A.
HEISING
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IN
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132
EDGAR
H.
FELIX
135
PROMINENT
RADIO
EDITORS
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WHAT
THE
DETROIT
"NEWS"
HAS
DONE
BROADCASTING
R.
J.
MCLAUGHLIN
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136
142
145
151
THE
AMATEUR
RADIO
LABORATORY
MISTAKES
TO
AVOID
IN
ERECTING
ANTENNAS
HOW
TO
BEGIN
TO
ENJOY
RADIO
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CAPTAIN
THE
PACIFIC
COAST
IS
"ON
THE
AIR"
ADVENTURES
IN
RADIO
ZEH
BOUCK
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G.Y.ALLEN
LEON
H.
RICHMOND,
U.S.A.
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WILBUR
HALL
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162
PIERRE
BOUCHERON
Married
by
Radio
Sunk
by
Radio
MAKING
RADIO
SALES
PAY
THE
GRID
QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS
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DR.
LEE
DE
FOREST
Vacuum
Tube
Inventor
of
the
RADIO
BROADCAST
Vol.
I
No.
2
June,
1922
The
March
rush
of
radio
news
in
the
daily
press
is
an
amazing
mixture
of
quaint
of
Radio
this
business
THE
miles.
and
fanciful
ideas,
new
developments
and
applications,
and
serious
articles
on
stirring
events
that
may
well
be
milestones
in
the
progress
of
civilization.
In
the
first
category
falls
the
story
of
a
foreign
hypnotist,
who
undertook
to
put
three
subjects
to
sleep
by
radiophone,
all
the
way
was
the
announce-
ment
of
the
calling
of
the
first
Radio
Confer-
ence
of
Retail
Merchants
at
the
Hotel
Penn-
18.
on
April
sylvania
According
to
a
preliminary
report
of
the
Bureau
of
Research
and
Information
of
the
National
Retail
Dry
Goods
Association,
the
volume
of
radio
business
importance
of
will
from
John
Wanamaker's
store
up
to
the
Hotel
Astor,
New
York,
a
distance
of
more
than
two
The
papers
are
discreetly
silent
as to
reach
$70,000,000
this
year.
Some
of
the novel
applications
of
the
radio-
phone,
according
to
the
newspapers,
have
been
the
supplying
of
a
long
vacant
pulpit
in
Wheel-
ing,
W.
Va.,
by
means
of
a
receiving
set,
the
the
result.
Then
there
was
a
fanciful
story
of
an
in-
ventor
who
committed
suicide
by
turning
on
the
gas
in
New
York
City
as
he
listened
by
installation
of
sets
with
amplifiers
in
hotels
and
apartment
houses,
the
use
of
radio
to
radiophone
to
a
dirge
being
played
for
a
funeral
on
a
ship
far
out
at
sea.
Just
how
the
reporter
ascertained
what
were
the
last
sounds
heard
by
the
dying
inventor's
ears
is
left
to
the
reader's
imagination.
Evidence
that
the
radio
business
has
as-
sumed
a
stable
place
among
our
business
afforded
by
the
facts
that
classi-
fied
advertisements
for
radio
salesmen
and
radio
engineers
are
now
appearing
in
the
news-
institutions
is
broadcast
the
news
of
a
concert
recital
and
dance
under
the
auspices
of
the
National
Child
Labor
Committee,
and
the
broadcasting
of
a
concert
and
the
preaching
of
a
"sermon
from
the
clouds"
by
Lieut.
W.
B.
Maynard,
known
as
the
"flying
parson,"
from
his
airplane
over
New
York
City.
Lieut.
Maynard
also
officiated
at
a
radio
aerial
wedding
on
April
24,
three
thousand
feet
above
Times
Square,
radiophone
receiving
sets
are
appearing
pawnshop
windows,
a
sure
guaran-
tee
that
there
is
an
active
market
for
them,
and
that
down
town
on
Fulton
Street,
west
of
papers,
in
that
York
City.
The
principals
were
Miss
Sarah
Cockefair
and
Albert
P.
Schlafke.
So
great
is
the
interest
and
enthusiasm
of
radio
amateurs
that
many
of
them
mis-
in
New
interpreted
the
newspaper
accounts
of
General
Squier's
discovery,
and
endeavored
to
substi-
tute
the
electric
light
circuits
in
their
homes
for
antennas,
with
more
or
less
disastrous
results
Greenwich
Street
York,
office
boys
daily
to
exchange
the
parts
of
radio
apparatus
they
don't
want
for
others
that
they
do.
But
the
best
evidence
of
the
rapidly
growing
in
New
now
congregate
to
both
the
circuits
and
their
radio
outfits.
One
of
the
more
serious
news
items
is
to
the
effect
that
Major-General
Robert
Lee
Bullard,
in
charge
of
the
operations
of
the
citizens'
RADIO
BROADCAST
military
training
camps,
sent
out
a
stirring
call
for
recruits
from
the
United
States
Army
Broadcasting
station
at
Bedloe's
Island,
where
the
statue
of
Liberty
stands.
The
possibilities
of
instant
mobilization,
in
case
of
future
wars,
adopted
by
the
House
and
Senate
and
signed
by
President
Harding.
The
service
to
Chinese
stations
will
be
terminated
to
China,
has
been
January
less
i,
1924,
owing
to
international
wire-
is
agreements.
which
this
suggests,
stagger
the
imagination.
The
Weather
Bureau
promising
more
David
W.
Richardson
and
G.
D.
Murray,
the
two
Princeton
students
who
succeeded
in
sending
and
receiving
radio
mes-
sages
from
a
Lackawanna
railroad
train
while
it
was
roaring
through
ravines
and
cuts
at
the
rate of
65
miles
an
hour,
and
even
passing
The
exploits
of
radio
weather
news,
giving
advance
information
of
good
and bad
weather,
and
the
Post
Office
Department
is
equipping
its
transcontinental
and
other
airplanes
with
radiophone
outfits
with
a
radius
of
200
miles.
The
London
Daily
Mail
accuses
the
"old
fogies"
of
the
army
and
navy
air
forces
of
hampering
English
amateurs.
It
is
said
that
the
United
Kingdom
has
only
8,000
amateurs.
Captain
Roald
Amundsen,
the
explorer,
who
has
started
for
the
Arctic,
is
taking
along
radio
outfits,
not
only
for
his
ship,
the
Maud,
but
for
two
powerful
airplanes
which
will
form
part
of
his
equipment.
As
Captain
Amundsen
is
said
to
estimate
the
duration
of
his
voyage
at
Underwood
&
Underwood
fitted
from
three
to
Lackawanna
Railroad
coach
specially
with
aerial
for
radio
tests
five
years,
it is
safe
to
say
that
his
radio
equipment
will
be
obsolete
by
the
time
he
returns.
In
the
meantime
he
and
his
crew
will
be
able
to
find
out
the
through
long
tunnels,
have
filled
many
columns
in
the
press.
Over
in
France
the
Compagnie
du
Nord
has
been
making
similar
experiments
under
the
direction
of
the
French
Ministry
of
Public
Works
near
Bourget-Triage,
but
not
while
the
train
was
running
at
great
speed,
nor
over
long
distances.
dent,
and
we
shall
gets
into
any
trouble
name
of
our
next
Presi-
know
if
the
brave
Captain
and
needs
help.
Another
important
news
item,
the
effect
if
true,
is
to
that
New
York
patrol
automobiles
of
the
Police
Department
are
to
be
Senator
Harry
S.
New
of
Indiana
made
a
political
speech
by
navy
radio
to
a
meeting
of
women
voters
in
Indianapolis
and
all
other
voters
in
Indiana
who
had
receiving
sets
able
to
tune
into
the
navy
wave
length,
and
thereby
stirred
up
a
tempest
in
a
teapot.
Once
more
the
familiar
cry
is
heard
of
using
Government
equipped
with
radiophone
apparatus
for
the
reception
and
transmission
of
wireless
messages
from
and
to
Police
Headquarters.
The
possi-
bilities
this
suggests
of
throwing
radio
nets
around
automobile
bandits
and
even
speeders
are
interesting.
At
being
this
time
when
constant
attempts
are
to
fly
across
the
ocean,
it
is
good
news
that
naval
experts
have
perfected
a
method
of
keeping
track
of
airplanes
on
over-
made
seas
flights.
Hereafter
transoceanic
planes
are
to
fly
in
pairs,
the
leader
to
report
their
half
hour,
and
in
case
of
accident
position
every
to
either,
the
one
in
the
air
to
report
the
circum-
stances,
as
the
one
on
the
water
would
be
too
low
for
satisfactory
radio
communication.
Kadel
&
Herbert
The
Navy
Radio
June
30,
which
extends
to
1925,
the
time during
which Govern-
Bill,
New
York's
Police
Department
Radio
System.
This
in-
stallation
has
been
of
great
use
in
calling
out
the
reserves,
ment
owned
radio
will
be
allowed
to
handle
press
and
commercial
messages,
except
those
when
needed,
and
the
running
down
relaying
messages
to
the
police
boats
in
of
bootleggers
smuggling
liquor.
It
will
shortly
serve
to
keep
Police
Headquarters
in
touch
with
the
Department's
patrol
automobiles
RADIO
BROADCAST
states,
"your
corporation
had
in
operation
two
Transatlantic
high-power
transmitting
stations,
one
at
New
Brunswick,
N.
J.,
and
the
other
The
station
at
Tuckerton,
constructed
by
a
German
com-
J.
originally
pany,
was
of
unsatisfactory
design
to
meet
the
demands
of
Transatlantic
service.
The
recon-
struction
of
this
station
by
the
Radio
Corpor-
ation
of
America
made
it
ready
for
commercial
at
Marion,
Mass.
N.
traffic
in
now
The
Tuckerton
station
January,
92
furnishes
the
transmitters
for
use
on
two
1
1
.
distinct
At
Radio
Central,
Rocky
Point,
L.
I.,
construction
work
com-
menced
during
the
previous
year
was
com-
European
circuits.
pleted
to
such
a
point
that
on
November
5,
When
1921,
the
station
was
officially
opened.
Harris
&
Ewing
Senator
Harry
tion of
S.
New
of
Indiana,
to
making
the
first
the
distinc-
political
speech
by
radio
belongs
whom
completed,
this
station
will
be
a
multiple
station
of
twelve
units,
each
consisting
of
a
complete
transmitter,
and
an
antenna
nearly
one
and
a
half
miles
long,
supported
by
six
steel
towers,
each
400
feet
in
height.
The
first
unit
of
Radio
It
is
safe
instrumentalities
for
political
ends.
to
predict
that
men
of
all
political
parties
will
be
accorded
equal
privileges,
or
that
none
at
Central
was
formally
opened
by
President
Harding.
The
message
was
acknowledged
by
19
countries
of
the
world,
all
will
have
them.
including
Japan,
The
American
Telephone
and
Telegraph
Company
has
disposed
of
its
interest
in
the
Radio
Corporation
of
America.
Dr.
Lee
De
Forest
is
reported
to
have
in-
vented
a
method
of
registering
the
action
and
voices
of
a
photoplay
in
the
Australia
and
New
Zealand.
same
film.
Nearly
two
hundred
daily
newspapers
in
the
United
States
are
now
maintaining
radio
news
departments,
and
the
number
is
constantly
growing.
The
great
majority
of
them
are
published
on
the
Atlantic
Coast.
Nearly
two
score
newspapers
in
New
England
maintain
such
departments,
fifteen
in
the
Southern
states,
and
eleven
enterprising
newspapers
on-
the
Pacific
Coast.
"The
installation
of
high-power
stations
in
South
America
has
been
inaugurated,
by
joint
arrangement
with
the
French,
German
and
English
companies,
under
which
the
interests
of
the
four
companies
are
trusteed,
with
an
American
chairman
chosen
by
the
Radio
Cor-
poration
of
America.
A
station
is
now
being
erected
in
Argentine,
and
a
concession
has
been
R. C. A.
Annual
Report
Transatlantic
circuits
of
the
Radio
Corporation
of
America
are
now
carry-
ing
20
per
cent,
of
the
international
message
traffic
between
the
United
States
and
Europe,
it is
stated
in
the
annual
report
of
the
THE
Six
direct
corporation
to
the
stockholders.
international
radio
communication
circuits
are
now
in
operation:
Great
Britain,
opened
March
i,
1920;
Norway,
opened
May
17,
1920;
Germany,
two
circuits,
the
first
opened
August
France
i,
1920,
and
the
second
May
19,
1921;
opened
December
14,
1920;
Hawaii
and
Japan,
opened
March
i,
1920.
"At
the
beginning
of
1921,"
the
report
Underwood
&
U
Air
Mail
Plane
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