Show si more drastic policy to be enforced by board the federal radio commission plans to insist on a closer adhe renca by broadcasting stations to their assigned frequencies in a letter to station owners and operators of his district aarold A lafount of utah representative of the lar west reveals the intention of the commission to keep a stricter check on frequencies it Is probable that every station will be required to purchase such equipment as will in the of the commission enable it to operate on its assigned frequency 1 mr lafount declares licenses will be im mediately revoked it general order io 7 which prohibits a deviation of pore than one half kilocycle Is alo 1 although the has received many complaints of ence caused by stations wandering from their assignee chamnes chap nes j it has been disposed to treat the offenders with leniency because of the mechanical difficulty of maintaining frequency with the recent development olfa devices for transmitter control and the increased necessity of maximum utilization of the available wave lengths a more drastic policy will be adopted declaring that fie sees no possibility of broadcasters obtaining licenses for a longer period than GO days during the next belr commissioner lafount says he appreciates eliat in all ordinary merit Is usually rewarded and the possibilities tor growth and development are virtually limitless unfortunately that Is not the case tn the broadcasting field because of athe limited pember of ether channels most of which alq overcrowded nowa mr lafount said index the circumstances despite the fine broadcasters may ambitious plans they inay have for expansion pan sion the commission will be able to shove its appreciation of the public bv offering more nowr and belter wave enghu en while some ot the old stations have been alv en considerable latitude n the past te time has when they cannot expand further and some of them way be w 1 I favor a more equitable uon af among states buelt Is a hard problem owing to the lak of program talent and station facial ties jn a number of states for that reason chain programs are available in sparsely settled states K 1 in defective phone cords of may be cause of static much of the so called static in a set Is due to defective phone cords speaker cords are made of many strands of tinsel each strand of tinsel being composed of a very fine copper wire twisted with a piece ot cotton thread the whole assembly of tinsel wires Is covered by woven cotton or silk braid sometimes the strands become broken ID places and any movement of the cord will cause a scratching sound in the speaker such a noise will be located when tha cord Is shaken As a protection against such trouble a loud speaker cord with rubber covered tinsel should be used the rubber covering prevents any such saturation as occurs in cotton covered tinsel externally the rubber covered tinsel appears the came as the cotton tinsel both being with a silk or cotton outer brahl 1 crystal and tube set may use same aerial the loomas radio college davs that it Is possible to hook a crystal set to the same aerial as a tube set and have both sets bring in signals sntos fact orlly the best way to do this Is to hook the tube set up as visual and then take the antenna wire from the antenna binding post of the crystil t and wind it tightly around the antenna wire above the point at which it 13 connected to the tube set the wires should of course be electrically insulated from eacle other make a tight twist of as many turns as you can get into a apace about three inches long this conveys the signals to the crystal et by induction each set should use a separate ground wire but the final earth connection anny be the same railroad uses radio on trains one mile long the ohio railroad Is conducting experiments radio as i meins of communication ia mile long freight trains an engine and caboose on the james alver branch between klch mond and clifton forge in virginia me been equipped with broadcasting and reviving sets the train sometimes has as many as cars and i without radio it I 1 necessary to sta alon a min midway between the en alne and rear car to relay signals new speaker developed A cone speaker small tn alze and usan a driving system similar to tant an fn larger has been developed the speaker described as having a natural tone Is ICS inches tn adlam and Is designed to overcome many of the obstacles in ohp way ot quality reproduction |