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A Portable Set for Lonely Hotel Hours
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would be a counter-poise doubtless.) But 1 cannot claim a discovery, for the bed spring connection fell off and the reception went on without any change whatever. This was one of the old hotels, God bless 'em, no steel construction nor reinforced concrete.
Where it will work, and usually it will, I prefer to drop my fifty-foot wire over the window sill. I select a small table, move it over by the window, take out my outfit, throw out my wire, and clip my ground wire to the radiator. One telephone lead I attach to the plate circuit by letting the clip bite it, and theother telephone lead I insert directly in the proper tap of the B battery. My short double clipped wire connects B minus with A minus. I forgot to tell about the filament battery. 1 exclude it from my outfit because dry-cell batteries are purchasable at all hours and at low cost in any city.
If the outside wire will not work or conditions will not permit its use, 1 try the electric light connection. I have never had any real trouble. Most cities have local broadcast stations or are near some other city that has. Sometimes those near enough for my single tube and more or less haphazard equipment operate only semi-occasionally or on restricted
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A WELCOME RELAXATION, AFTER A DAY OF WORK AND TRAVEL The portable apparatus in action at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington
schedules which do not match my hours of freedom, but I seldom fail to find real entertainment ready at hand. Even if broadcasts are lacking there are near by amateurs handling "traffic." One lulls a child to sleep with monotony and repetition. The c-q-ing of the amateurs has a similar effect, and I am apt to grow drowsy. Well, that was what 1 wanted, wasn't it?
THE IO-TUBE SUPER-HETERODYNE SET WITH WHICH R. R. MAYO, WHO BUILT IT, HEARS
EUROPE REGULARLY