. 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 . Nothing: is simpler tlian erecting the antenna for receiving pur-poses. A single wire, with insulators at either end, is runbetween the house and a barn, tree, or clothes pole. Then atap is taken oflf the near end of the antenna and brought intothe house. This is known as the lead-in. 1
. 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 . Nothing: is simpler tlian erecting the antenna for receiving pur-poses. A single wire, with insulators at either end, is runbetween the house and a barn, tree, or clothes pole. Then atap is taken oflf the near end of the antenna and brought intothe house. This is known as the lead-in. 148 RADIO FOR EVERYBODY. It is best to pass all wires through porcelain tubes when theyenter the house, as shown here, even thougrh the wires may beheavily insulated. It is an additional precaution Avell worth taking* ator soon learns how to adjust the primary and secondarycircuits, and how much coupling to use. With condensersor variometers, the operator becomes familiar with theadjustments of the various dials for picking up any desiredtransmitter. Indeed, some instruments are provided withdials that have plain subdivisions, without numbers of anykind, or even with plain pointers and blank backgrounds;yet the operator soon learns just where to place the dialsor pointers in order to obtain the desired results. At first, the operation of a radio receiving set is apt tobe a little complicated and possibly disappointing, for thereason that the operator may not obtain the best resultsimmediately. But at the end of an hour or two the oper-ator readily masters the various adjustments and knows RADIO FOR EVERYBODY
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