Radio age (Jan-Dec 1924)

42 RADIO AGE — "THE MAGAZINE OF THE HOUR" Turning on Our Loud Speaker SAY, Mr. Radio Bugg, are you a regular reader of RADIO AGE? Before you file this copy of RADIO AGE, stop a minute and think over what you found in it. Have you ever read articles as clear as the ones you just finished? Did you ever see drawings and circuits more clearly portrayed? Perhaps you have once or twice — but here's your opportunity to be assured of real practical information right along. Read over the following extracts and letters from our readers, who know and appreciate first-hand radio information; real practical radio. Here's a shining example of just what RADIO AGE has done for one of our readers and it shows how we can help you: RADIO AGE, Gentlemen: Being an admirer of RADIO AGE, I just built the three circuit receiving set designed by Felix Anderson as it was published in the November, 1923, issue of your publication. I have built nine different sets from supers to various other types of sets, published in other radio journals, and they turned out to be jokes. I won't mention the names of the other magazines but I will say that the sets I built came out of every radio journal I could buy, and I think I got them all. I was almost heartbroken, as it cost a pretty penny to be fooled like that. So I resolved I would try one more and I did, which was the above mentioned set, and while I am writing this I feel like jumping up and down and hollering. You may publish this letter if you wish, as I think your readers would enjoy knowing that it is a feeling of great joy to know that at last one can get radio from a reliable source, and get information that is straight. This is the only way I know of expressing my appreciation for such a book. Very truly yours, B. R. THOMPSON, 731 West Congress Street, Chicago, 111. Ronald Cox, of Beach Haven, N. J., built one of the simple tubes sets described in RADIO AGE, writes as he encloses a record breaking list of stations (see the Pickups section of this issue). "Your magazine is the best I have ever seen." Just read over this little extract from a letter of A. E. McElroy of Columbia, Mo. "I have been reading your magazine for the past several months, and I have been particularly attracted by the exceptionally good, clear, and concise hookups you print." James P. Cooper of Memphis, Tenn., says: "I am proud to be a subscriber to your valued and instructive paper." John J. Drechsler of 2111 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland, writes us: "I have RADIO AGE to thank for the many days of pleasure I derived from my Kopprasch set. Gentlemen, kindly accept my humble thanks for your untiring labors." It's rather pleasant to believe that readers of RADIO AGE are as appreciative as that! James E. Chandler of Belvidere, 111., says: "I am a regular reader of your good magazine, RADIO AGE, and I want to tell you that I find it most instructive and helpful." George Rollisson of 418 West Elm Street, Hanford, Calif., writes: "I have read nearly all the different radio journals and am proud to say that RADIO AGE beats them all when it comes to hookups and material." We get letters from fellows who have just started to read RADIO AGE which run something like this excerpt from the letter of F. M. Swissher of Meadowbrook, W. Va.: "If you keep making your issues like the November issue, then it is without doubt the best radio book ever published. Keep up the good work." There is no doubt about keeping up the good work. This month new writers appear on the staff of RADIO AGE, to furnish our interested fans with more and more first rate information. It's pretty hard to find a more capable staff of workers than Frank D. Pearne, Felix Anderson, Carl Masson, Arthur B. McCullagh, Carl Butman, John B. Rathbun, J. A. Callanan, all doing their level best to supply you with first rate radio. The following is just another reason why you should be a regular RADIO AGE booster. Philip G. Shermerhorn of 67 West 52d Street, New York City, N. Y., tells us: "May I say that I send in my subscrip" tion, partly because of the excellen1 material composing your magazine, and partly because of the list of broadcasting stations, since this list is an absolute necessity to DX listeners." Perhaps as you glanced through the magazine you have noticed that we feature a list of broadcasting stations But our list is different — it is not only a list of stations — it is a corrected list, which is kept to date for each issue by special service and news bureaus, and by the watchful eye of our Washington correspondent. We hope you will pardon us for taking so much of your time, but we know that if we don't tell you about RADIO AGE, in this way, you'll probably never get to hear about it, because the average RADIO AGE reader is so busy copying long distance signals on a set made according to RADIO AGE instructions that he will just point to a magazine on his work bench, and mumble "LET THEIR HOOKUPS BE YOUR GUIDE." A Public Chat WJAZ, the Zenith-Edgewater Beacb Hotel broadcasting station, was re broadcasting an outside station the other night, the operator forgot to close his transmitter and a queer thing happened. Some one called him up on the phone and had quite a conversation with him. Thousands of fans thought that they were hearing two broadcasting stations carrying on a conversation The caller's voice was just as clear as the operator's due to some freak of inductance. GIVEN FREE: REINARTZ BOOK Complete construction directions with Hook-ups — best book on good circuit — written and illustrated by Frank D. Pearne. If you want one free, fill out the coupon and send with your subscription remittance, $2.00 for one year. RADIO AGE, 500 North Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Please send me FREE one of your Reinartz Radio Books and send me Radio Age for one year. I want to take advantage of this Special Offer. I enclose two dollars. Name..