Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...linking of two seas over 6000 miles of space in half an hour is already the record of the newly-opened official relay station of the University Wireless Club on top of the Stadium. Yesterday evening the club station, IXJ-IAF, operating with a 75-meter set, got into communication with British 2 CN, a station in Falmouth, England, and at its request it relayed a message to 7SP in Portland, Ore. Thus two stations 6000 miles apart were linked with a comparatively few minutes by the club station, which has done more work in the last two days than...
...planned by the Wireless Club to keep the station in daily operation from 6 o'clock in the evening until 2 o'clock in the morning. In a test held last week the station was heard in California by ten different stations...
...formal drawing-room, softly rugged-the studio of Station WEAF, Manhattan-sat a score of notables in evening garb. In the broadcasting room stood John McCormack. In front of him was a microphone. He sang Adeste Fideles with quartet and orchestra, the Berceuse from Jocelyn. Then Miss Lucrezia Bori rendered LaPaloma, airs from La Traviata; then the two sang a duet from the same opera. Both were nervous at first, lacking the stimulant of a physical audience ; they warmed to their work, their voices were perfectly reproduced, even to the finest nuances of shading. Between numbers, the announcer...
That portion of the receiving public within range of Station WOR (Newark) has but to set its dials before going to bed and it is awakened at seven next morning by the clanging of a huge and strident alarm clock...
...January issue of Popular Science Mr. Bagley wrote: "Mine is the world's largest gymnasium class. Just how many members it has I do not know. There are 50,000 anyway, because I have received letters from that many. At the WOR station it is estimated that letters are ordinarily received from less than 10% of the listeners-in to any broadcast feature. So there may be a halfmillion. . . ." He stated that he had read all 50,000 letters, replied to many. A Massachusetts mother wrote: "I used to be at my wits' end trying...