Radio Broadcast (Nov 1926-Apr 1927)

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234 RADIO BROADCAST ADVERTISER Balkite Combination wiihyour U. S. PATENT. OCT. 12. 1926 "A" battery it supplies all radio power automatically jrom the light socket A New Balkite "B" at #27.50 Eliminates 'B" batteries and supplies "B" current from the light socket. Three new models. Balkite "B"-W at $27.50 for sets of 5 tubes or less requiring 67 to 90 volts. Balkite *'B"-X for sets of 8 tubes or less; capacity 30 milliamperes at 135 volts — $42. Balkite "B*'-Y for any radio set; capacity 40 milliamperes at 150 volts — $69. (In Canada: "B"-W $39; "B^X $59.50; *'B"-Y $96.) The New Balkite Charger MODEL J. Has two rates. A lowtrickle charge rate and a high rate for rapid charging. Can thus be used either as a trickle or as a high rate charger. Noiseless. Rates: with 6-volt battery, 2.5 and .5 amperes; with 4-volt battery, .8 and .2 ampere. Price $19.50. West of Rockies $20. (In Canada $27.50.) Balkite Trickle Charger, #10 MODEL K. With 6-vok "A" batteries can be left on continuous charge thus automatically keeping the battery at full power. With 4volt batteries can be used as an intermittent charger. Or as a trickle charger if a resistance is added. Rate .5 ampere. Price $10. West of Rockies $10.50. (In Canada $15.) All Balkite Units operate from 1 10-120tW/, 50-60 cycle AC. The /la/kite Charger is also made in 2 5-40 cycle model. Now you can operate your radio set from the light socket. Merely by adding the new Balkite Combination Radio Power Unit. Once connected to your "A" battery and set and plugged into the light socket, it supplies automatic power to hoth circuits. You need not even turn it off and on, for it is controlled by the filament switch already on your set and is entirely automatic in operation. It will give you a constant quality of reception that cannot be secured in any other way. Balkite Combination can be installed in a few minutes, either near the set or in a remote location. Like all Balkite Radio Power Units it has no tubes, nothing to replace or renew, is a permanent piece of equipment, and is built to conform with the standards of the Underwriters' Laboratories. It is noiseless in operation. It will serve any set now using either 4 or 6-volt "A" batteries and requiring up to 30 milliamperes at 135 volts of "B" current — any set of 8 tubes or less, including power tubes. Add Balkite Combination to your radio set and know the pleasure and convenience of owning a receiver always ready to operate at full power. Price $59-50. [$83 in Canada.] Ask your dealer. Fansteel Products Company, Inc., North Chicago, Illinois. Listen to the Balkite Radio Symphony Concerts with Walter Damrosch and f the Neiv York Symphony Balkite Hour Saturday Nights 9 P. M. Eastern (8 P. M. Central Standard Time, over WEAF, WEEI, WGR, WFl, U, WCAE, WSAl, WTAM, WW J, WQN, WCCO, KSD, WDAF, WOC. J Balkite 7{adio Tower Units THE DALKITC LINE OF ELECTROLYTIC DEVtCES IS PROTECTED BY EDGAR W. ENGLE U. S. REISSUE PATENT NO. 16.439; DATED OCT. 12. 1926 •fa Examined and approved by Radio Broadcast if ituun BrtOADOAST. January, 1927, Published monthly. Vol. x. No, S Garden City, N. v.. us second clasi I'uMisiioi iii Garden nt\. N. v. Subscription price $4.00 iniiU matter. Onulileday. Pane & Company, Uarden City. N. V.