REACHING OUT FOR DX

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 14, 21 October 1927, Page 12

REACHING OUT FOR DX

AN AMIQRICAN’S CLAIMS, "An American cottemporary in its correspondence columns gives the, following DX claim which was sent in by a reader. After stating that since reading a report of Australia being received on a crystal set, he feels impelled to give a brief account of his own DX snecesses, aud goes on to say :~- "My set was built from a hook-up. furnished by one of your competitors and the parts were obtained from a local dime store. ‘I'he initial cost was but four and a half dollars, but T must admit that the upkeep was something terrible. "Simplicity and efficiency plus wefe obtained by using the local telegraph line as an aerial and the Deleware River as a ground. San Francisco, Shanghai and Yhasa came in easily; although I must admit that the broad. casting of Babylon and Damascus could be improved upon immensely, "Not content with these notable contributions to DN literature, I added several more tubes aud condensers and with some suspense twirled a few of the dials, "After an agonising pause the most unearthly. howlings that I ever heard proceeded from the Joudspeaker, followed by the distinct sentence: ‘A little more coal boys!" An eminent Iinglish clergyman who was standing nearby (the very soul of truth, by the way) immediately recognised this broadcasting as proceeding from Station L, Gehenna. ‘"fhose howls,"' he remarked simply, are undoubtedly the anguished cries of deceased DX hounds who are paying the penalty of their misdeeds and imisrepresentations on earth.’ "Tt would appear boastful were I to tell of receiving certain celestial

harmonies that were never produced on earth aud the daily weather reports from Mars. However, I believe that I have said enough "to convince the wildest DX enthusiast that he has a foruridable rival."