[GCARC] Wireless sets for Christmas

[Tony Starr]

I once tried entertaining the family with my radio equipment in the
"drawing room" and it did not go over very well.  That is why I have been
banished to the ham shack.  It is a good thing I have heat in here!

de K3TS

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 5:41 PM Mike <g0ggleblind at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wireless sets for Christmas
> On this day 100 years ago
> Thursday December 22 2022, 12.01am, The Times
> *From The Times, London : December 22, 1922*
>
> A wireless outfit is a popular Christmas present and the shops are full of
> wireless sets, spare parts and material for making sets. Grown-ups as well
> as boys have taken up wireless with enthusiasm, and there are wireless
> societies all over the country.
>
> The study of wireless is probably the most satisfying hobby yet found for
> those who have an interest in things mechanical. Wireless sets for the
> amateur vary in price and size, but an efficient set is within the means of
> most people. Inquiries show that the use of wireless is more widespread in
> the country than in London. This may be because Londoners have so many
> amusements at their doors that they are less inclined to stay at home for
> their entertainment. There are numbers of clubs, too, where wireless is
> discussed and where experts give instructive lectures on the subject.
>
> Wireless sets may be obtained with a mast for erection out of doors or with
> an aerial that may be set up in a room. One manufacturer specalizes in a
> set with no aerial, the instrument being simply connected with the electric
> light. In many homes this Christmas there will be parties “listening-in” to
> the special musical programmes.
>
> Meanwhile, a language is being spoken by growing numbers of people every
> day. It includes words like “valve”, “harmonics”, “rectifier” and
> “condenser,” and schoolboys talk it with ease. For the boys, probably the
> greatest fun lies in building a home-made set. The attic table, which used
> to be strewn with fretsaws and sawdust, is now littered with valves and
> wire, and it is a new “amplifier” rather than a new fort, or a new
> “headphone” rather than a new air-gun, that is desired this Christmas. But
> the real pride of the youth who takes up wireless is his ability to
> entertain the family with it in the drawing-room.
>
> At Marconi House, the London broadcasting station, a Christmas holiday
> programme has been arranged. From tomorrow until Tuesday there will be
> almost continuous transmissions of speeches and music for five hours daily,
> between 5 and 10 pm. The juvenile section of the audience will be
> considered first each evening. Addresses and
> concert items for older people will occupy the middle of the evening, and
> dance music will wind up the entertainment.
>
> 73 and Merry Christmas all
> Mike Thompson
> KG4JYA
> ______________________________________________________________
> GCARC mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/gcarc
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:GCARC at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html