TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932.
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RADIO SETS & ACCESSORIES.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonatis spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
19
HORIZONTAL
5
136
38 139
58
61
1 HORIZONTAL (Cont) 1. VERTICAL (Cont)
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chow
B-Harvest
Prefix. Before
10-Moved rapidly
12-Angry
14-To take pleasure .15-Restrain- 17-A beverage 19-Swise river 21-A degree (abbr)
28-To render more
dense
24-Pronoun
27-Fish oggs 29-it is (Conth) 30-Consume
21-Measure of weight" 32-A Franch drinking
place
38 Jeered
34-Pertaining to the
stamum 33-Most rigide 42-Tabiat 43-A letter 44-Imperial Service
Order (abbr.)
46-Title of respect
47-Anything which
refracte
49,-Father (short) 50-The (Fr.) $1-Used in negation
in 63-Papa
1
54-Passageway 56-Part of the foot 57-Place for storing
grain
58-Epoch
60-Iceberg
6 Dispatched
VERTICAL
2-Above "3-Anger
4.Hardest 6-Trials 6–Beám of light 7--Ahead
Cry of 'shoup
11-Hinder |13-551 (Roman)
15-Period of time. 16-The soild remains
In wine, making
| 18-Fassageways
19-Part of a day 120-7o make a fouri
22-Lady's neck-wrap 24-Bind ¡26-Man's name
28-Garden implement 28-Receded, as the tide 31-Large planta $34-Stain
35-Sailor (Colloq.) · 36-American
Expeditionary Forces (abbr.) 37-Learning
(Blimplified spalt.) 36-Itches 39-Superlative ax [40-A taste
141-Snare
47-Crimson 48-Decay 50-A youth 32-Measure of length 54-Almasphere. 156-Before $7-Exist 59-Indefinite articls
(The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle.) will
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LATEST MODEL
LEICA CAMERAS & ACCESS. Sub-Agency.
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Radio Development Proved At Display
Simple But Effective Machines Shown
Advice To "Mr. Buyer"
(By Captain E. H. Robinson)
PUBLIC DEMAND FOR RADIOS. ·
£30,000,000 Of Sales Are Anticipated.
BUSINESS HAS GROWN.
LIFE-SAVING PLANES
U.S. Coastguard Gets
New Equipment.
than any normally encountered in flying-boat operation."
The plane is designed from nose
New types of planes for the to tall for the work of saving lives military and other government ser at sea and is intended to pick up In an official statement issued by vices have been delivered of late the crews of small boats. In dis- the Radio Manufacturers' Associa-and are in service or on the tress, to rescue personnel from tion, it is stated that 50,000,000 testing feid. The first of the y-disabled planes forced down at sen, radio Instruments and componenta ing boats for the U. S. Coast Guard, and to serve as an ambulance plane. will pass into the possession of the delivered by the General Aviation A crew of four will normally be public as a result of the exhibition. Corporation is a twin-engine mono carried which includes two pilots, Sales of sets this year will be ap- plane with Wasp engines, mounted one radio operator and one mecha- proximately 1,200,000 battery type on the upper wing, and driving nic. The planes will be stationed and 800,000 electric sets, and the pusher propellers.
at Cape May, NJ., and Miami, Fla... and will patrol the full length of The new boat is built for landings the Atlantic Coast from these
seas rougher stations.
"Where all are so good it would, Murphy have particularly good re-turnover on sets is estimated at be invidious to particularise." putations. British Clarion have £30,000,000. Last year's exhibition and take-offs from writes the small town reporter facalao made efficient service arrange provided £29,000,000 worth of busi-
fness. ed by lack of space and a desire to menta.. praise everyone in a local concert. The superhetrodyne is not now a
Each of the 212 exhibitors at 44 After many hours at Olympia, luxury set, though it naturally costs where the most successful Radio more than simple straight set. Its "Radi-olympia" has declared an in- Show yet held closed yesterday. I purpose is to give that extra selec
gramophone.. Others. are very small, so small that it is difficult to
Movie" Aeroplane Lands
As Stunt On Iceberg
Berlin, Sept. 15. his great skill in handling the
The unique feat of landing on a plane.
Iceberg with an amphibian plano The whole scene of the landing
was accomplished by the
famous
on the iceberg was recorded with
am tempted to make use of this well- tivity and sensitivity which is crease in business compared with worn cliche. A very high standard necessary in present-day conditions last year. This increase ranges and the has been set by most of the Arms if uninterfered-with reception Is from 25 to 300 per cent,
required from a large number of overall average increase for the exhibiting.
Outwardly the new receivers prestations. It will usually work well whole industry is 72 per cent. It sent few differences. Some cabinet with a very inefficient aerial. Many
of the bigger seta have is expected that during the season are large. and may include a an astonishing performance, 20,000 work-people will be added
in the „Way of distant to the industry's pay roll. understands how four or five valves station reception with no aerial at Much export business has been German ace Udet in the course of sound apparatus and, as the tele- and all the associated contraptions all. The best have already been
done, adds the report, and six times the production of a moving picture gram received from Herr Franck have been packed. inside them. reviewed in the last two weeks.
A four-valve "straight" set which as many foreign buyers have visit-in Greenland by a German company states, this scene, will be one of Others, for use on A.C. mains, in- clude an electric clock. They are stands out as a good productioned Olympia this year as in any under the directorship of Herr the most thrilling of the whole film' alike in that three controls are with regard to both sensitivity and
though, he adds, most people will Franck, who achieved world renown
not believe in the authenticity of with his Alm.
The White Hell the scene but be convinced, they see of Pitz Palu.”
A trick portrayal as it seems welle:
all that the listener, is asked to quality is the Ultra "Panther" at 18 other.
A battery-operated set operate, one for selecting the guiness station, another for changing from not previously noted is the Six Sixty, At a meeting of the members of medium to long waves, and a third one of the few in this class with a the industry it was decided to in- for setting the volume level. moving coil speaker.
crease the amount spent in adver-, At all stands a large volume oftiaing. A sum average. £20,000 & Nothing could be more simple.
Wireless "advices received from high impossible that such a feat
really could be accomplished. The purse will doubtless be the business has been done with the
trade. I have been shown orders week and totalling more than the base of the expedition state final arbiter for newcomers to ra-
for astonishingly numbers £1,000,000 for the season was that in the course of the daring dia. Those with some knowledge
of: receivers. Evidently there will
agreed upon. It was unanimously read catalogues and
is no more, likelihood of saturation let the ear décide
number of receivers all
a
This alm, which will be known as "S O S Iceberg," is approaching
amongst point being reached with wireless decided that the best advertising feat Udet had an extremely narrow its completion and will be soon-re- about the same price. In any than there is with motor-car buyers. medium was the newspaper Press. Tescape and saved himself only by isased Trans-Ocean good wireless shop very many dif ferent sets can be heard working, and most agents are prepared to bring sets to the house for final de monstration.
A good example of this season's workmanship and performance is provided by, the Philips range. They have four-valve receivers for either. alternating or direct current mains at 16 guineas, and a battery-operat ed model with a similar circuit at 11 guineas. These sets are reasou- ably selective give good quality speech and music at a volume more than sufficient, when full out, for! the average size room, and are of neat and attractive appearance.
For the man who wants to hear a large number of foreign stations, for who is in a difficult locality, Philips make a de luxe set at 23 guineas,Quality and performance are in direct ratio to the price paid. Those who have mains at their disposal can always get bet ter quality than those who work from batteries:.
must
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The Favourite, Circuit. The favourite circuit this year, apart from the superhetrodyne, js the "Three," usually consisting of a screened grid high-frequency stage, a power detector, and a pen- tode output, contained, with moving-coil speaker, in a cabinet dimensions. of reasonably small The cost is mostly between 15 and 18 guiness for the mains-operated type.
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Such a set, with an outdoor aeriál, will give good quality re ception from the local stations and will give several good alternative foreign stations. The "number of stations that can be heard will un-} ually depend on the efficiency of the serial and on the locality.
Good examples of the three valve general purpose set fire the Murphy, which has achieved a very good re- putation, the Pye Model G the Marconiphone Model 258, the "Sono- chorde," and the "Bell." The latter is a particularly pleasing newcomer By the way, in reviewing the Pye "MM" receiver & fortnight ago I gave the price at 14 guineas. This is the price of the Pye "Q" battery model. The Pye MM cost 17 guin- eas and is well worth the money. can be worked, on
with
Its
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