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How to Build a Neutrodyne Receiver
With a Complete List of Parts Necessary, Their Approximate Cost, Working Drawings, and Wiring Diagrams— by a Man Who has Directed the Building of these Receivers in Great Quantities
By KIMBALL HOUTON STARK
Chief Engineer, F. A. D. Andrea, Inc.
In the last. two or three years, since radio became popular, probably several million radio receivers have seen the light of day. In this article, complete information is given for building a tuned radio-frequency receiver using Professor Hazeltine's now famous neutrodyne circuit. In the second article in this series the author will give detailed instructions for neutralizing the inherent vacuum-tube and stray circuit capacities. The third article will deal with practical pointers on operating the receiver, including data on loop antennas, dry-cell tube operation, etc. — THE EDITOR.
BREATHES there a man with soul so dead that he has not enthusiastically told his neighbors with ready speech and beaming eye, of his marvelous DX records the night before? A rather funny statement was made to me the other day. The thought was presented that radio is certainly making us a nation of liars. A couple of rabid radio hounds meet at any radio store and immediately begin the discussion, infinite in detail and yet always ending with that universal topic of " How far did you get last night?" One man hears signals 1,500 miles on a two-tube super; another chap gets Los Angeles on a one-tube set; somebody else
happens to think of the old days when someone told him about hearing a commercial ship station three thousand miles west of San Francisco, from New York City, using a crystal detector — and so it goes.
It seems to me the craze for distance will never die out. I don't want it to. Of all the romance, mystery, and myths that we encounter in this life and that we are told about, where can we get romance that will compare with listening-in to concerts and music and speeches from stations hundreds of miles away, from invisible cities, as it were — from an invisible empire, an empire not of radio receivers or equipment, not of listeners or radio fans or experimenters, but a vast empire of pleasure and entertainment, of music and of all the good things that this world has in store for us.
There are thousands and thousands of radio fans that struggle along with their one-tube sets or their two-tube sets who are just wishing night and day that they could add a third tube or a fourth tube in order to hear that station a
few hundred miles beyond the limit of their receivers today. Some of these radio fans can afford to buy complete receivers, but the ma
THE SET UNDER WAY Mr. Stark is shown drilling the panel, preparatory to assembling a receiver such as he describes in this article