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Radio-News-1922-03-R CIRCULATION \ 25 Cents March u. 1 9 22 Over 125 Illustrations \\ \\-\k; , Edited by H.GERNSBACK RAI)! 0 DILVIt+.!EN pi; LOH81341. cri()P4 ior+ !e9X4 CIRCULATION LARGER THAN ALL OTHER RADIO MAGAZINES COMBINED \\\\ www.americanradiohistory.com UNNINGHAM VACUUM CUNNINGHAM - C-300 GAS CONTENT DETECTOR TUBES For HOME RECEIVING SETS TEROUGHOUT the entire country today Cunningham Type C -300 Amplifies Gas Content Detector Tube is recognized as the ideal tube for use :n Home Receiving Sets. For clear reception of Concerts, Market Reports, Stock Quotations, etc., as it sent out by radio, this tube cannot be excelled. Detects The one tube_ which gives the best results used with any type i eceiving set applicable to wave lengths of 100 and 3000 meters for both spark and C. `V. Telegraph and Telephone, this "Cunningham Detector Tube is being purchased everywhere by those operating Home Receiving Sets. In addition to its remarkable detector properties, low B. battery, quietness in operation, it is a free and persistent oscillator for regenerative amplifica- tion and C. W. reception and functions without distortion of the received signals. Many wonderful tributes have been paid this tube by those who have The trade mark GE is the ruaranIce of these achieved the remarkable results that it always gives. quality tubes. Each Your nearest dealer will tube is hut to most gladly give you full information about this tube rigid speciheatbons. or writs direct to us. Trading as AUDIOTRON MFG. COMPANY 248 First Street 154 West Lake Street San Francisco, Calif. Chicago. Illinois www.americanradiohistory.com Radio News for March, 1922 793 Frost -Radio Improved High gracie electric,] in- N ickel- Three th sulations. Will silver I'tire silver ness washers, r withstand 110 contact contact nickel plated volt breakdown test. springs. points. and buff d. JACKS and PLUG Specially Designed for 1 1_ Radio Panel Work INTERCHANGEABLE WITH OTHER STANDARD MAKES T "Spread" arrangement Small, neat frame Hexagon of spring terminals. round e, gr. highly hi ailed Cuts are actual size allowing twice the I el'slue , nickel usual amount of plated and huffed. nir tele] space for soldering. and b tffe. 1. The smallest, neatest, most perfectly finished No. 132. Plug only, $1.00 jacks and plugs that have ever been offered to the Radio trade. They have been specially de- signed for panel work and are of standardized construction so as to be interchangeable with other standard makes. A particularly desirable and exclusive fea- ture of the FROST -RADIO Jack is the "spread" arrangement of the spring terminals No. 133. Jack only, $ .65 which allows twice the usual amount of space for soldering to the wiring. These terminals 1®Ñh are heavily tinned. Another striking feature is the nickel plated 11M111 and highly buffed finish used throughout. 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Ross 826 ing and Receiving, The Ordeal By Erald A. Schivo By Louis Gerard Pacent 8.2 827 With the Amateurs 828 A Method of Recording Wireless Signals by Means of a Morse Inker, Who's Who in Radio -Roy A. Weagant. S31 By Capt. H. de A. Donisthorpe 8 =3 plum s mmmlmmin Splitting the Game.. By Howard S. Pyle 831 What Anyone Can Hear, By Armstrong Perry 814 I- Want -To -Know 832 Note on Oscillations of a Two -Element Radio Digest 833 Valve ... By Jesse Marsten 815 Correspondence from Readers 834 Increasing the Output of a Rectifier, By Max Levy 81,5 Club Gossip 835 ® included. All accepted contributions are paid for R A D I O N E W S is published on the 25th of each month at on publicati A New York. There are 12 numbers per year. Subsdrip- special rate is paid for novel experiments; good photographs accompanying 2233 Fulton Street, highly desirable. is $2.50 a year in U. S. and possessions. Ganada and foreign them are tioz price (no countries, $2.75 a year. U. S. coin as well as U. S. 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