. 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 . io-phone loud and clear. The tuning isexceedingly sharp. A slight turn one way or the otherthrows out the radio^phone altogether. The author, using a 60-foot wire as an aerial, runningbetween the second floor of his house and a large tree,has been listening to the Newark broadcasting st
. 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 . io-phone loud and clear. The tuning isexceedingly sharp. A slight turn one way or the otherthrows out the radio^phone altogether. The author, using a 60-foot wire as an aerial, runningbetween the second floor of his house and a large tree,has been listening to the Newark broadcasting stationevening after evening. In an airline, some forty milesseparate him from the WJZ station, yet the radio-phonecomes in loud and clear, using the vacuum tube detectoronly. With one stage of amplification, the sound is greatlyincreased, and with two stages it becomes possible to usea loud-speaker so that the radio-phone is to all intentsand purposes on a par with the phonograph, and the head-phones become unnecessary. Still more remarkable, withcertain atmospheric conditions it is possible to pick up thePittsburgh radio-phone station just as loud as Newark,although under normal conditions Pittsburgh is only atrifle as loud as the nearest station. It is well to mention here that the radio-phone receiver. 72 RADIO FOR EVERYBODY is subject to that bete noir which is dreaded by all radiomen, namely, static, or atmospheric electricity. Staticasserts itself by making all kinds of noises in the telephonereceivers, ranging all the way from a frying sound to aloud scratch, which are most disagreeable and interferematerially with the radio-phone service. During thewinter, the static is almost negligible, this being especiallytrue during cold, dry winter nights. During the summer,however, especially with the super-sensitive radio receiv-ing sets now employed, static is quite troublesome, al-though it is seldom sufficiently heavy to break up theradio-phone reception altogether. The radio-
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