. Radio for everybody; being a popular guide to practical radio-phone reception and transmission and to the dot-and-dash reception and transmission of the radio telegraph, for the layman who wants to apply radio for his pleasure and profit without going into the special theories and the intricacies of the art . , the beginner shouldsit down by the hour and translate newspaper articles ormagazine articles or any other copy into the Continentalcode, using the practice set. In this manner he trains hisear to the various sounds, and after all the ma:stering ofthe code is just that, nothing more. T
. Radio for everybody; being a popular guide to practical radio-phone reception and transmission and to the dot-and-dash reception and transmission of the radio telegraph, for the layman who wants to apply radio for his pleasure and profit without going into the special theories and the intricacies of the art . , the beginner shouldsit down by the hour and translate newspaper articles ormagazine articles or any other copy into the Continentalcode, using the practice set. In this manner he trains hisear to the various sounds, and after all the ma:stering ofthe code is just that, nothing more. The next step is one which presents two alternatives:Either the beginner can get in touch with some other be-ginner and spend some time each week transmitting mes-sages back and forth to each other by means of a buzzerpractice set, or the beginner can listen in on his receivingset to the amateur transmitting stations, endeavoring topick up letters here and there. The second method is notapt to produce immediate results, for the reason that,much of the traffic is entirely too fast for the , certain radio telegraph broadcasting stationshave the beginner very much in mind these days, andtransmit at a very slow speed in order to furnish prac-tice for the beginner. There are automatic machines. 170 RADIO FOR EVERYBODY which send messages at any desired speed for training thebeginner. This is an excellent self-instructor. One method of learning the code is to attend a radioschool. The schools, thanks to their wide experience, haveperfected methods of training beginners which produceearly results. But in the main one can teach ones selfif sufficient patience is exhibited. Listening to radiotelegraph stations and attempting to jot down on paperas many letters as are recognized finally results in copy-ing more and more letters and words until perfection isattained. Aside from the telegraph code, there are certain abbre-viations that have been inaugurated by the Internatio
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