Show Have Short Grid Wires Others May Be Bunched The Importance of ot short and direct connections between the various parts of a radio receiver Is In general rath rath- rather rather er exaggerated by some radio writers Tile The repeated oft-repeated admonition to keep wres wires short and straight Is la offered with all good Intentions but In many cases It drives amateur constructors constructor Into making looking cubist-looking sets with the components arranged In odd positions positions so as to make their Interconnect Interconnect- InterconnectIng interconnecting Interconnecting I ing leads straight and direct Really I Ithe the only Important wires which must I be kept short and ond free tree of ot all others are those running directly from the I grId posts of ot the tub tube tube- sockets to re- re related re related Instruments and even then the tho frequency I radio frequency tubes are the only ones at all nil critical In this respect I The particular connections whose brevity Is conducive to good results are those from the grid ends enda of ot tun tun- tunIng tun- tun tuning tuning I ing Inductances to the G 0 terminals ot of the respective tube sockets and In Interspersed in- in interspersed In-I In grid condensers from those same ends to the stationary plates ot of the related tuning condensers or from the condensers to the grid posts It if the tho connections are ore made macJe that way Also to be Included In the list are the wires from the P lip posts of ot fre radio fre- fre frequency quency tube tubo receptacles to to the P sides of ot radio frequency transformer primarIes It Is la advisable but not so BO urgently I essential to keep the tho grid connections connections I on the audio amplifiers short However It if they do take a R few tew twists or lie across some other wires they I wIll not seriously affect the operation ot of the receiver as similarly mistreat mistreat- mistreated mistreated mistreated ed wires In the radio-frequency radio mag- mag magnifierS mag are certain to do All the other wires In a set Including ing lag the filament returns the A D B Dand and 0 battery and rheostat and ond switch leads may be bunched together er Into one ono cable without harming the I outfit In la the slightest There Is no need at all for tor stiff stitT bulbar and care care- carefully carefully care I fully tuny separated connections insulated solid soUd or flexible No 18 wire Is Just as asgood asgood good and ond can be handled bandIed much more easily Some raldo raido tons tans may find It dim dim- dim cult cult to reconcile these facts with some ot of the things they have hove read about radio but they are facts tacta nevertheless The practicability of ot the bunched wiring method Is la being recognIzed more and ond more by fans faD and manufacturers manufacturers alike and It probably will not be lon long before delicately Installed bend I bend right wiring be- be becomes be becomes comes the mark of ot an old set set r |