RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
Three-Tube Reflex Receiver.
The owner of a reflex receiver, with one or two-tules for dual amplification, will find it a simple water to add another stage of reflex. And it will will repay him for the trouble,
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which chculd be to the left of the row of sockets. This will put the A battery fërminals toTMing right," and shart leads would he assured to the plate and grid terminals of the radio-frequ •ney transformera. Three-Puge reflex is practically Sinco only no rheostat in' pro- the peak of this kind of iceeptinn.vided to control the filament cur It is equal to three stai cs of radio rent, all three tuhrs should ho and two of audio amplification, jako. They may he either WD- with a crystal as defector. It will; 19%, 199%, or CV-201-A's tune starply id har en found
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The 43 plate variable condenser expecially comitive, bringing in is chosen'so that a high z band of distant stations up to 1040 miles wavelengths may he covered. off, even through local broad-much-maller condenser may bu
shur ten scross the primary of the " Fol owing are the rats re-first radin transformor, to increase quiler:
signal strength for low wave- V,andard varieer in le,, with lengths, but this isn't necessary eight up on primary.
if breadcasting is all that is
calier.
CL. 43-plate variable condenser.sought.
€2, fixed cordenser, Mi5 mfd. The easiest way to wire this set 43, 44, C5, C6, C7, fixed ecp-fix to start with the A battery Heads, from the rheostat and densers, 802 mld.
TI, T. audio freiency trans-socket terminals. Next came the formers.
grid and plate connections to the
BATTERY
A BATTERY
HOOK-UP 113 HAM OF A THREE TULE RIFLEX SET
T3, T4, T5, radia frequency
reflex transformers.
R, Golm rheostat.
P. 400 ohm potentiometer.
D. Crystal detector.
Three tube sockets.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1924. FEATURE SECTION).
bing like a permanent program- ma ha roached.
Interference among broad- fosters, Amatours And ship lætatlong has osme to such a passi that only by getting spoke-men from all types of rựdio applie- ́ation together can this problem
he threshed cut in vult all.
Amateurs especial y have boon iwhirned about from one class of: wivälengths to another. Given more freedom recently in a short wavo schedule, the amatoura) found themselves -confronted i with opposition from various commercial.atlong and sporial brandengtors who also have been permitted to use low wavelengths or kich fremtencing a
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d fruity among thomvelves, with more stations cropping up at Pinte alrondy crowded with [broadcastery, with calls for more jaiva-living and limitations in this field, and with efforts to spread | their own propaganda from coast.
to coast.
The last pains may produce ano of the most important discussions at the conferenco The questiona (whether one dominant station or
over
the
Spiderweb coils make this series of stations should be per cigarette caso crystal receiver mined to broadenst posible. It works well on locul whole country at the same time, reception, and good clear nights almost to the exclusion of others, tight to reach out to 25 and even may bring out heated talk ön 15 miles. Its inventor, tomber both sides.
of a radio trn in Bertin, is shown with it.
THE CONFERENCE.
In the course of these discus- sings, it is expected, will come Fuzga- tione on the best way to nermit nationwide broadcasting by relays in the cheapest possible. Imanner. At prevent r-lay hrrad- Le istine is feasible about as far as The middle west, starting from The dominant stations in the east Cret of long distance wire service Washieten Brendesti` is almost prohibitive for relaying nurr a wider ren then has avar, to famher stations, bofors hoon aftempted, advartis- But a system of relaying by in by ruha, distribution of sta-, short wave wirejens Hans tre d'v'sions, interference, out of ti o en rģestions expected to be mida ut the confonne, with walour difficu]Fina--
Tangles For Unravelling.
may como
orj radio-frequenev transformers, [aud the remaining leads may
In fiet every, phase of radio the result that, the Parifio const toverlap these,
transmission and reception is to may soon onjoý th same “relays" Reflex receivers require a' be taken my forserious considers-[ of important avants that the onst great deal a patienes in their time and solution at the thirt and middle west have been get operation. This one calis for national radio rasformer,anoned ting.
Switch and ei ht switch prints.jeven more than ordinary skill be on the night of October ( Onu api etreuit jack.
and pa ience, Many nights of Binding pate, his wire, ate, testing and switching of dials for connectjoms.
ne other controls will finally With extreme care and fire-fbring the operator full reward. Thought, the entire set CRI te erected on a besa 13 inches long
by 7 inchus wide, with the piped? VICNIC BROADCAST.
Chicago was going to try broad- 7 by 15 inches in measurement. The trick lies in arranging the casting a picnic ou Dot. 5. A radio
transformers broadcasting station mounted on frequency directly behind one another in a truck was to be taken to Grant line leading away from the panel, Park, and from here entertainers then placing the throa tubes (ar pukers would transpuit their alongside in a similar fine and selections to the listeners, while the two audio frequency transers ab at them would enjoy
them also by sight. formers in a third line.
ANTIQUES ALREADY.
The conference has been called
Sro tary of Commerce Radia already has its antiques by Hoover, primarily to find a more for preservation. For this pur. equitable run ins for distribui poss the National Museum at ing wavelengths or fromancies Washington has burun colleștine amenź beva lesstore, amateurs, instruments that have already commercial ship and government become obsolete. stations. Tho Brut two ር - ferences, also designed for this purpose, did not bok Fer noonghi ahead to allow their Andings to Research Laboratory, at Bellevue, continus pretical
In the face of Meulting encountered by overlarent of Recarty experimenting with a
Kmits, ani The wavelength
54 metro wave, he is said to have of broadcastere, amateurs and other stations Berhed as far as Rio de Janeiro, partment of Commerce officials 4780 miles awNr.
it have found podiatriba o the Treuneneins og n
forenen hero wil be open to all; persons interested in radia,
Only by free discussion of the in the in- Pituations various dustry, it is real zed, cap any
SHORT WAVE RECORTY, Dr. AH Tavlor of the Naval!
[D, C, holds the record for line' l'atunes on a short wavelength.
increas
Hornseary to
If this arrangement is dreided upon, it would liv a good plan tol use what is called a three-gangļ Pocket assembly, whien consists of three works is on one base. waiting for fegislation that will wider basis. To do this the con: liqvo lien reiseivel for the contre
BANNED IN POLAND. The people of Poland are stil
evon limit the uso nľ radio sand- Otherwise, the socketsshould be ing and receiving apparatus. For placed in such a position that the while such legislation is lacking. end and plate terminals fies the private sending and receiving is indio-frequency transformers, forbidden altogether.
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THOUSANDS EYROLLEO. More than 700 enrollments
in french being broadcast overv Widensday from Station KPO, at! San Francieen, Charts for cach Jasson are furnished overy person who enrolls.
RADIO VAUDEVILLE. Some of the larger brondcasting stations over the country are AF ranging a radio vaudeville circuit. Actors and actresses have been į signed up so that, when hay strike acy including one of the stations in the circuit, they will broadcast their skit,
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40 COURSES BY RADIO.. The new college of the air organized by the Kansas State Agricultural Collere at Manhat- tan. Kas., will havo 40 courses in broadcast this winter. They will cover the fields of agricul ture engineering, home-making, business and "neral science.
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OPERAS FOR THE AIR. Open otmar performances produced in state-owned thatrosi in Fra co may soon be put on thei air for he hong fit of fans through- cut that country. A demand la】 growing for this form of onter- Lainnt.
DRINK AND DOLE. There had fren a remarkable ncrease in drunkenness in the <own since the unemployment pay was increared, declared the Chief Constable of Dudley,
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