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Show THE S ALIN A SUN. SALINA. UTAH Wiring Diagram of a By GEORGE of R. F. Amplification. outer end connects to the plate M. MEYER, the New York In Radio Receiver Which Employs One Stage Four-Tub- e Herald-Tribun- radio-frequenc- y How would you like to build a four-tub- e set that would give volume ale most equul .to any receiver on the market? It can be done. The receiver about to be described may be constructed without the use of low-locolls. It isf parts or an excellent receiver and hs for volume and clarity of reception, nothing more could be desired. The circuit makes use of a stage of which amplification seems to supply tremendous volume to the detector tube. It Is the writers opinion that greater amplification per stage can be obtained when the circuit Is tuned In single circuit fashion; thnt Is, with a condenser connected In series with the antenna tuning coll rather than across a coll having an untuaed primary winding. In past experience with receivers emy ploying a stage of tuned ahead of the detector results have shown that greater amplification of currents Is possible with the series circuit. In fact this type of circuit has been known to produce as much amplification as two emstages of tuned ploying condensers shunted across secondary colls and nontuned primaries. It Is for this reason that this four-tub- e set will produce as much volume and receive as much DX as some five-tub-e tuned receivers. Special couplers or coils are not necessary, as the two coils In this receiver may be home-madBelow Is a list of the parts required to complete the set: The Parts Needed. One panel. Two .0005 variable condensers. One .00025 grid condenser with mounting. One four megohm leak. . One .002 fixed condenser. One tube 3 Inches in diameter, 4 Inches long. One tube 3 Inches In diameter, Inches long. One pair of audio transformers. Seven binding posts. .Four sockets. Two single jacks. Two 20 ohm rheostats. One 10 ohm rheostat. Two dials. A careful selection of the parts Is five-tub- ss trick-woun- d radio-frequenc- y By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN ING out the old, ring In the new." Do you remember the time when no article on the New Year was dox unless It contained at least a part of Ring. Out, Wild - Bells," Alfred .Tennysons melodious verses from In Memoriam"? And have you noted that nowadays they are no longer In fashion? Tills is to be regefted. Though they were written 75 years ago, they are still as appropr-latt-f and as as they are melodious. For . In suggestive Memoriam is far more than a splendid memorial to Tennysons closest friend, Arthur Henry Hallam. It is an utterance of the Imperishable hopes and aspirations of the human soul passing through the valley of the shadow of death. It is the English classic on the love of Immortality and the immortality of love. It feels the forward movement of the world. It voices the hope for bettep things that springs eternal in the human breast. It pays due respect to law and order. It breathes sturdy and thoughtful patriotism. There is a profoundly religious spirit in it. It is full of the ultimate spiritual instincts and cravings of humanity radio-frequenc- y radio-frequenc- radio-frequenc- y radio-frequenc- y radio-frequenc- y e. : Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying In the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. . . Ring out the old, ring In the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go: R.ing out the false, ring in the true. was erected. Its experiments covering a range of about 14 miles ; January 0 will be International Radio week. with its broadcasting among fifteen nations. Radio is now Instructing and entertaining the world. It is sending photographs; boiling a kettle on a. cake of Ice, and stopping railroad trains with emergency brakes. What next? Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring In the nobler modes of life. With sweeter rumors, purer life. Ring in the love of truth and right. Ring in the Common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out. the thousand war of old. Ring In the thousand years of peace. Ring In the valiant man and free. The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land. Ring irs the Christ that is to be. ' foregoing verses, once so popular and now quoted, are in themselves suggestive of the changes time has .wrought since they were penneij. "Ring out the old, ring in the new," sings the poet. Glancing at the Sixty Years Ago Today" column in the dally newspaper, we see that Hie Daily News of London was editorially denying that the claims of the United States against Great Britain because of the Confederate cruiser Alabamas destruction of Union shipping were a sufficient cause for war, and 2,000 guests were present at a New York reception to General Grant. Great Britain paid the United States $15,000,000 damages because of the Alabama; the United States saved Great Britain in the World, war; today the peace and stability of the world hangs on the friendship of the two great English-speakin- g nations. General Grant was by the North because he was the leader who won the Civil war. Today we have a reunited country, consented by the common service of the and Blue and Gray in the Spanish-America- n World wars. Twenty-fiv- e years ago today John Alexander American the healer, was being mobbed in Dowie, London by medical students; today the music of is heard over every American radio. Dow ' Ten years ago today Ge'rmaiiy agreed to Jay an Indemnity to the United States for 'the 115 lives lost when the Lusitania was torpedoed, but refused to apologize for the sinking of the liner. Today Germany Is working out her redemption under the Dawes plan and the world Is discussing the appeal to women to scrap the submarine of .woman In the Lady Ator, an American-bor- THE . the poet, Ring out the false, ring AGAIN sings true which is to say:. New for' old fallacies; discoveries, Inventions, improvements, increased efficiency in all walks of life. Along tills line progress is too rapid to be apprebefore announced is new a ; dated improvement the last enn be recorded. Our national prosperity is in large measure due to the constant expansion of the application of scientific discoveries to the industry and commerce. Electric power and light, tiie gas engine and radio have revolutionized and are still improving modern life. Yesti rday was the discovery by federnl government s. cutists of the secret of fixed nitrogen, Ir.dispens-fo- r the making of munitions and fertilizer. Today a rai'fornln scientist reports the existence-oand with a V,.w lay. stronger than the thc".s;ud times greater frequency. Tomorrow hat -- a ,V1 of iho radio in 192G? Guess for rour-- ; in 1897 that the first Marconi BttTUon i. X-ra- y imagining. The equnlity of opportunity here Is beyond any- ever seen. It Is literally true .thing history-hathat the liighest positions in the land arb' open to all. Even- - the Presidency is jopen, the single restriction being that of native birth ; President' Calvin Coolldge is a farmers boy who worked as hand during his youth as any young- - American. The high executive positions in the federal and .' state governments and the seats of congress are men. 'The great salaries of full of In Business world are In the large the high-up- s . majority of cases drawn by men who have worked up from the bottom. Education is. free. Efficiency is well rewarded. The young American of today has only himself to blame If he does not amnss a competence, estaa family. blish a home There are no. class distinctions to bar his rise. Theoretically there are no oppressed who should have redress. .In practice there are flies In our ointment; when human nature improves these will be removed. self-mad- ' e nnd-foun- announced . - s f sings, Ring out old of foul disease. Many have been rung out and more are going with every ringing of the bells. Yellow fever and the bubonic plague world scourges have been eliminated from tha AND again Tennyson . t no longer Th epidemic. essential. Designers of some of the highest class receiving sets have specified flexible stranded copper wire for all filament and plate battery connections. These leads are all bunched together and tied to keep them out of the circuit. The wires running to the sockets; binding posts and rheostats should be kept near the baseboard of the set. A .receiver wired In this fashion will not be subnotes ject to squeals or common to a great many home-mad- e Sets In which the A" and B" battery circuit Is allowed to traverse the tuning circuit. Secondary Tuning Coil. The' secondary tuning coil which feeds the detector tube should be carefully made and wound tightly with No. 24 I). C. C. or D. S. C. cop-ry- r magnet wire. There are three separate windings on this coil, one for the y plate ot tiie tube, the secondary and the plate coil of the detector circuit. The tube should he three Inches In diameter and four and one half Inches long. Start about half an Inch from one end and wind nine turns of wire, being careful to prevent the wire from coining unwound. Fasten each end of this small winding through small holes made In the tubradio-frequenc- y n y wbrld cry in TENNYSON voicesouta present-dathe thousand wars of old, Ring ring In the thousand years of peace. It Is now seven full years since the armistice. These have been years of all the passions of war without. Today, for the first time, the horizon Is bright with hope. Europe has come to a realization of Its desperate plight. It now sees thnt no European nation won the World war; that on the contrary that war brought disaster to all, victor and van-- . quished alike. No nation possesses the resources to accomplish Its rehabilitation unaided. To domeven an approximation of their pre-wa- r ination of the world the nations of Europe must to an extent hitherto combine and unthinkable. The situation has resolved Itself to a question of So the Locarno agreement is more than a gesture of willingness to abstain from war. It means the wish for constructive peace, the desire to begin, the work of rehabilitation and the, hope of restored world The New Year will presumably see a Pan-- . European congress, working Independently of the League of Nations. It will end.eavor to breqk down nationalistic divisions, bring about and establish an organization some-wha- t resembllng a United States of Europe. No, Europe has not accomplished a spiritual regenera-- . tlon. It Is a plain case of realization that something of the kind must be done to avoid complete, collapse. United Europe against the world or ' Europes day Is done. high-pitche- d radio-frequenc- y d the baseboard.-Thi- s coil should be placed directly the aerial tuning condenser and about an inch away. The '.0005' variable condenser which tunes this Thla coil is connected to the top turn. In hack of should be made to the fixed or stationary plates of the condenser, In r to avoid any possible body capacity." The rotor plate connection goes to the antenna binding post on strip at the rear of the baseboard. Connects to Grid Terminal. The top of the coil also connect to the grid terminal on the tube socket. Make the lead as short as possible and direct to the socket,- avoiding bends and fancy-shape- d wires. The antenna series condenser aids In bringing about resonance between circuit the primary and the detector circuit. The adjustment of this dial may not be so crit. ing. . Then In the reverse direction wind ical as the other dial across the secthe secondary coil with 43 turns of ondary tuning condenser. It may be r wire. Leave, of an Inch well to experiment with the taps on between the first winding and the sec- the coil winding. Pick ont a tap which ondary. Remember the secondary coll will give a dial reading on the antenna Is wound directly opposite to the nine-turcondenser w'hich takes in wave lengths coil. Both ends of the secondary between 200 and 550 meters. It Is winding should be fastened through difficult to' state offhand which tap holes In the tubing. Skip a half inch will be correct. Once the proper turn and wind nine more turns of wire In s located the lead wire to the conwind- denser may be fixed permanently. same direction as the lu the FINALLY, writes Tennyson, Ring In the Christ " that is to be. Would that the New Year bells ing. You now Jaave completed the some eases, however, It. will be found coil. It may be mounted in back of the more efficient to try fewer turns when could fulfill his 'wish, for in Christianity lies the ' and tuning to some of the stations around secondary tuning condenser a reformed of human nature and a 'only hope to the antenna 250 meters or thereabouts. ft.' Too manv angles right plaeed regenerated world. The World war has brought coil. turns may cause tuning on the shortet forth the charge thnt Christianity. Is a failure. If the antenna coil Is mounted up- waves to be a trifle sharp. It Is posCertainly crime is rampant. The churches and right from he base the coil with the sible to log this dial as well as the factions within the churches are quarreling. Nevthree windings should be mounted other. ertheless, Christianity "Is still the driving force The two of civilization. The Bible continues to be by far parallel to the baseboard. The he a half should coils t the worlds best seller. It has been translated Radio Operator Speed lie . mounted on brass hitler may of the languages of earth and the presses To pass the government exandna blocks of sniiill cannot begin to supply the demand. Has the brackets or by means first-clas- s commercial radio of wood fastened to the baseboard. tlons for a Christianity of (he Jesus Christ of that Bible ever It Is necessary to license Is shuntroil this operators of The secondary been tried by the world? One tldng Is sure: New ed by a ,KHi5 variable condenser. The qualify in both transmitting and reYears day Is a day when every good American reversed eluding is In tiie plate circuit ceiving the International Morse code should take stock of himself and resolve to dn tube. The end at a speed of 20 words per minute. An of his mite toward making the wish of the pool "nea'-e--the v to tin amateur Is required to receive at a connects seconda-the come true. 10 words per minute. InUciy of Hie detector tube. The speed of re-ga- iu and-pursui- t n . g there is the line, Ring in redress to all Redress carries with it the suggestions of wrong inflicted upon the helpless and unfortunate and of acknowledgment, reparation and rehabilitation. Doubtless there Is need In many pluces of earth for redress in the fullest meaning of the word but not in tjus United States. This is increasingly the land of liberty, equality of rights and opportunity of happiness. This nation Is the one nation of earth dedicated to these precious things and the passing year3 but confirm the dedication. All- the world knows this ; if we were to throw open the gates of America the rush .of Immigration .would be beyond is God-give- AGAIN, ies-Zio- . 'T'ENNYSON writes, ring out the feud of rich and poor." In the larger sense this feud has been rung out in America. There are no longer any poor" In the meaning of this word as Tennyson used It. America Is the most wealthy, most prosperous and happiest nation of earth. The prosperity of the American people this year has made possible the highest standard of Jiving la all history. Specific Illustrations of this prosperity meet the eye at every turn streets full of automobiles and taxis ; sidewalks full of men and women dressed in accordance with fashions latest whim; homes equipped with radio; millions of spectators at football games at a cash expenditure of untold millions ; millions at play In the middle of winter In sports in the South and California and in winter sports in New England and the national parks of the West; the Florida land speculation rivaling the Mississippi Bubble of two centuries ago ; a building construction of $7,000,000,000. Moreover, labor is now one of the heaviest investors In the commercial and Industrial enterprises of capital. Best of all Is the fact that conditions apparently point to a continuance of this prosperity In 1923. record-breakin- Smallpox tropics have been made habitable for the white man ; the death rate of the Panama Canal zone is less than that of many cities of the temperate zone. The health of massed populations, long one of the worlds greatest problems, has been assured ; of the death rate of cities of over 1, (XX), (XXI people Chicagos Is lowest with 11.2 a thousand, Paris Is highest with 14.3. The toll of tuberculosis (Chicago 1924 figures) has been reduced to 8.11 a 10,000; of pneumonia to 9.04; of cancer to 10.59. Heart disease Is now the worst of the dread list; It kills 18.78. Chicago, like other great American cities, is. living too fast working too hard, playing too hard. Mans avocations are as strenuous as his vocations. Our modern civilization Is too fast and- furious to be . sane or safe. . Herein lies the value of the new National Outdoor Recreation conference, which would make ns understand that wholesome outdoor recreation amid scenes of natural beauty is the antidote for many of the jlls of our Twentieth . . century civilization warm-weath- made-Preside- British parliament. map. 24-3- ter- minal of the amplifier tube. After the set has been tested. It may be well to try reversing these connections. The nine-tur- n winding which follows the direction of the secondary Is connected In the plate circuit of the detector tube. When the circuit la under test, if It regenerates or Bqueals, this coll Is wound too near the secondary. Slide this coll away from the secondary another quarter Inch. This will prevent the regeneration to the extent of stopping oscillation. There will still be a certain percentage of regeneration present which U necessary In order that the receiver function on distant stations. However, the set should not squeal on any wave length. It will not radiate, due to the blocking effect of the stage of tuned radio frequency. C Battery Is Included. A C" battery seems to be In style, and so one has been Included In the circuit. It will Improve reception as well as prevent excessive drain on the plnte batteries: Ninety volts B" battery will require a C battery of 4.5 volts. If one of the new RCA power tubes is used In the last stage a great Increase In volume over the 20L1 will be obtained. A word or two of explanation concerning the tuning of this receiver Is given to enable those who have constructed --similar outfits to obtain the best of results. There are but two controls as far as actual tuning Is concerned. One of these to tbe left of the panel is employed to tune the and the first stage of antenna circuit. The second tuning condenser Is used to tune the detector circuit. This adjustment Is In Control of the wave lengths and may be railed the station selector, as It Is used to pick out the stations. If the set has been properly constructed, tills tuning dial should be fairly sharp on all stations. It may he logged. The radio frequency coll Is Wound tube about 6 Inches long. on a No. 24 double cotton or wire Is required for the winding. !The entire coil contains 90 turns of wire, at Intervals. Start with 4 taps take-of- f the winding about half an Inch from the end of the tube, and before taking the first tap, wind 50 turns of wire. Make a loop or twist which may be cleaned later for connections. Continue winding the coll In the Bame direc- tlon until the 'seventieth turn. Take another twist and proceed to the eightieth, where another tap Is taken. Finish the coil at the ninetieth turn and leave a short end for connecting the bus bar wire. Two small brass braces can be screwed to the bottom of the coll for holding It In an upright position on radio-frequenc- e. general-disarmamen- or-dp- radio-frequenc- y - radio-frequenc- y t' one-quarte- n n -- 1 incir-apar- Into-mos- r.nhn-fi-cquem- t t. |