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Poor or rich you'll find it easy to choose the perfect Christmas gift for the dialer
BRING A RADIO
YOU need never be puzzled as to what to get a radio fan for Christmas. There's always new apparatus on the market, and whether you're willing to spend less than a dollar or more than five hundred, there is something sure to tickle the heart of a really enthusiastic tuner-inner.
Most of the manufacturers are devoting their attention to short wave and all wave sets and accessories this year. Several have already announced their 1935 models as this magazine goes to press, while a few of the more timid or conservative are holding off to see how the public receives the innovations brought out by their more daring rivals.
Beginning in the lower price range with our Christmas suggestions, you can always give a short wave fan a pair of phones, costing from about $2.00 upward, with the assurance that they will be welcome. Not only do they enable him to hear distant stations not distinguishable on the loud speaker, but they permit him to sit up all night without disturbing the rest of the family. In selecting phones, the cheapest are not always the most satisfactory; be guided by what your dealer tells you as well as by what you want to spend.
If your fan friend is bothered by motor noises and the sparking of flasher buttons, elevator contacts and the like, he'll be tickled with a noise-reduction antenna. These haven't much effect on reducing atmospheric disturbances, but if the antenna is placed out of the field of local interference, the lead-in won't pick it up nearly as much as the old. single wire type. The newest sort uses a pair of leadin wires, each preferrably connected to a separate halfantenna. The Lynch Radio Laboratories, RCA and other companies all put these antennas out in kit form for prices
Above, Philco presents its new High Fidelity set, expensive but worth the money, and (left) an wave radio by Atwater Kent in the lower price range.
ranging from about $5.00 upward depending on the type.
Any dealer, too, can tell you what tubes your friend's set uses. All you have to know is the make and model. Tubes are always a good, safe buy, for those in a set deteriorate from use and while they may still play, don't usually have the same sensitivity and tone qualities after the first thousand or so hours. If you don't want to buy a complete set of tubes, get the detector only. This is the one which generally needs replacing most.
And now the sets — there's a truly bewildering array just making its appearance. Little broadcast band and short wave midgets can be had for about $20; other sets, affording a greater choice of frequencies, and some containing the new and sensational "high fidelity" principal, list well up into the hundreds.
To start off with a high (Continued on page 66)
by TERRY MILES — the Globe Twister
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