Radio Broadcast (May 1929-Apr 1930)

We put in audio transformers and other such parts right on job, and collect the cash then and there. By the way, getting your cash on the job is an important item. The person taking the job over phone tells new customer our terms — CASH. I learned this important point quickly upon entering repair business, for it's a job in itself to collect a radio repair bill. The excuse is that the radio is unsatisfactory, even if you've left a considerable amount of new accessories. Then too, there's a chance that while you're waiting payment over a long period that these 'tricky' customers will expect you to fix set as a 'reinspection' — don't forget they have yet to pay for the original job. Then, another important feature to the repair service is to have good high-class men out on the job. After all, it's not the name of the repair company that the customer cares about, but it's the high-class work done by the good repairman you send out. Then I find that no matter how many cards I leave on a job the customer will misplace them so as to have difficulty in reaching me in future. I've made up my mind not only to leave a card in the set but also to paste a label under the receiver cover, if possible." Demonstrating Equipment I am enclosing a snap shot of a baffle arrangement I am using in conjunction with an S-M 720 screen-grid six and a phonograph pick-up for demonstrating purposes. An awkward object, but a delight to listen to! I find good demonstrating equipment the best possible sort of publicity and advertising." H. Wilson, Jamestown, N. Y. D. C. Installations Howard t. cervantes, service manager for Haynes Griffin, New York City, comments interestingly on d.c. installations. " During the past few years we have installed a great many sets using d.c. A and B-power units without much success. This was unquestionably due to the poor design of this d.c. equipment. The choke coils and B-power units are, in a great many cases, too small, and in nearly every //. H if son, of Jamestown, N. Y., believes in using high-grade demonstrating equipment. case there is insufficient bypassing. This, I believe, contributed largely to the resultant poor success. "For example, it is impossible to substitute a d.c. B-power unit for 90 volts of B battery and get the same results. Our most recent experience with a device of this kind was the Ward Leonard d.c. A, B, C eliminator with which you are probably familiar. This is probably the best outfit that has been developed for this purpose, although the Abox condenser is quite a nuisance, requiring refilling and seemingly not maintaining its capacity for any great period. This change in capacity caused a change in load, either decreasing or increasing the output. In general, these d.c. outfits have been anything but satisfactory. As you are probably aware, the greater part of our clientele is located in the d.c. district and this season we have had very good success with the d.c. sets that were put on the market last fall. We have had very few complaints of poor quality with these receivers. The better types are using either push-pull or parallel audio systems, and some of the higher priced models employing the dynamic loud speaker are comparable in every way with their corresponding models in a.c. " I would say that our greatest problem in the installation of these sets has been from line interference. We find that in the majority of installations it is necessary for us to erect an antenna having sufficient proportions to give a pick-up great enough to get good strong signals that will ride over and above the line noises. We find it next to impossible to get good results with an indoor antenna. With elevators, motors, relays, refrigerators, and other such devices, the average apartment house in New York City is a veritable noise factory. "In some cases we have attempted to STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCULATION, ETC., required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of RADIO BROADCAST, published monthly at Garden City, New York for April 1, 1929. State of New York, County of Nassau. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid, personally appeared John J. Hessian, who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the treasurer of Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., owners of Radio Broadcast and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, N. Y.; Editor, Willis Kingsley Wing, Garden City, N. Y.; Business Managers, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, N. Y. 2. That the owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding one per cent, or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated concern, its name and address, as well as those of each individual member, must be given.) F. N. Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y.; Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y.; S. A. Everitt, Garden City, N. Y.; Russell Doubleday. Garden City, N. Y.; George H. Doran, 244 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. ; George H. Doran, Trustee for Mary Noble Doran, 244 Madison Ave., N. Y. C; John J. Hessian, Garden City, N. Y. ; Dorothy D. Babcock, Oyster Bav. N. Y.; Alice De Graff, Ovster Bay, N. Y.; Florence Van Wvck Doubleday, Oyster Bay, N. Y.: F. N. Doubleday or Russell Doubleday, Trustee for Florence Doubleday, Garden City, N. Y.: Janet Doubleday, Glen Cove, N. Y.; W. Herbert Eaton, Garden City, N. Y.: S. A. Everitt or John J. Hes This picture shows the baffle arrangement which Mr. Wilson uses for demonstrating purposes. clear up this noise by the use of a so-called noise filter at the set, without any success whatever. The only place to tackle this is at the source. Most of the filters on the market are good for small motors and refrigerators but we haven't found anything to eliminate other noises except the erection of a good long antenna." sian, Trustee for Josephine Everitt, Garden City. N. Y.; William J. Neal, Garden City, N. Y.:' Daniel W. Nye, Garden City, N. Y.: E. French Strother, Garden City, N. Y.; Henry L. Jones. 244 Madison Ave.. N. Y. C. ; Sanford G. Etherington, 50 East 42nd St., N. Y. C. ; Stanley Rinehari. Jr., 1192 Park Ave., N. Y. C; Donald Macdonald, Garden City, N. Y. 3. 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That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is (This information is required from daily publications only.) <S'SDOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY. Inc. By John J. Hessian, Treasurer. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of March, 1929. [seal.] (Signed) Frank O'Sullivan Notary Public Queens County No. 1501 Certificate filed in Nassau Counts Term expires March 30, 1920 112 • • JUNE 1929 •