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RADIO TUBES FOR RADIO TOURS RADIO RADIO THE RADIO WAVES ARE Good radio tubes are a prime requisite of successful unningham radio touring. If your radio has lost its punch, it probably CALLING! . • • needs new Cunningham Radio Tubes or RCA Radiotrons. Have you ever wished to visit California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Mon- From Cunningham Radio Tubes or RCA Radiotrons you Radietron tana, or any one of the 42 other States of the Union? Would you like to spend TOURS TOURS tonight in Canada or Mexico? Or would you rather pay a flying visit to Los can always expect superior radio set performance. The Angeles, Chicago, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Washington, or any one of the constant research in RCA's great laboratories has hundred other great cities of America? Maybe you are tired of big-city life though always blazed the way to new and better radio tube and would rather spend an enjoyable evening in some small town - let's say Albuquerque, New Mexico, North Platte, Nebraska or Bangor, Maine. design. Five recent improvements make today's RCA Thousands of people are finding that there is a new way to travel-a method Radiotrons and Cunningham Radio Tubes give better that is thousands of times faster thon the airplane R A-D-1-0-a method that is radio set performance than ever: so inexpensive that the cost is measured in terms of pennies instead of hundreds of dollars R-A-D•I-0. 1. Precision Construction makes every tube a 'matched" These people are "seeing" the United States, Canada and Mexico by radio. They have found that there are hundreds of good things on the air every day. tube. No longer do they say "There's nothing interesting on the air tonight," for they 2. More Efficient Cathodes ... assure uniform performance have found that by travelling the ether waves they can have almost any type of throughout life. entertainment they desire when they want it-from opera to jazz, from the folk lore of Canada to the Mexican serenader, from big city politicians to small town 3. Improved Heater Design .. reduces hum, eliminates council men telling why they should be elected, from the chorus of America's noise from heater- cathode circuit and gives quick action. greatest churches to the Negro spirituals of the South lands, from lectures on cooking to university courses. Adventure? The Radio Waves are full of it. 4. Higher Vacuum ... results in quieter operation. Recent years have witnessed the tremendous growth of the chain broadcasting 5. Cooler Grids ... prevent fluctuation in volume due to erratic systems-the National Broadcasting Company and the Columbia Broadcasting tube performance. System. But in the meantime, local stations have not been standing still -they have grown in power and prestige. They have good shows as well as good tech- nical equipment. For every radio station affiliated with NBC or Columbia there ore two stations that are not. Many of today's outstanding chain features were once local station programs -Rise of the Goldbergs, Wm and Abner, Seth Parker, The Mills Brothers, Amos 'N' Andy, Rudy Vallee, and a host of others. Those people who know how to travel by radio are listening to tomorrow's chain features today-for there are hundreds of stars on local stations today who will be the shining lights of next month's or next year's chain broadcasting programs. All of the good programs don't get on the networks. There's not room enough for them. During the Fall months all of the important college football games are I. Bert Lahr 20. Colonel broadcast, even though they don't get on the chdins. If your favorite college foot• Stoopnagle 1C) ball game is not being broadcast by either NBC or Columbia, you can probably 2. Betty Boop find it on a local in or near the city where the college is located. This is but an 21. Budd example of what you can expect from local stations. 3. Walter Winchell While these radio listeners are discovering the entertainment possibilities of 22. Jeannie Lang 4. Sherlock Holmes local stations, others living outside of New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the 23. Rudy Vallee key broadcasting points of NBC and Columbia, are finding that all of the pro- 5. The Shadow grams presented daily by the key stations at those points do not reach their local 24. Rubinoff RADIO STATIONS MAP stations that are affiliated with NBC or Columbia. But that doesn't worry them, 6. Walter Damrosch for they are able to tune in either New York, Chicago or San Francisco, direct- 25. Captain Henry thus getting big-city programs when they wont them. 7. Morton Downey 26. Paul Whiteman theUNITED STATES To enjoy radio travel, look well to the following: 8. Graham McNamee 1 You need o good rodio set. A poor radio set will not bring in distant stations. 27. Bing Crosby A four or five tube set may do for locals, but to bring in distant stations you 9. Irvin S. Cobb need plenty of power. This extra power makes for fine reproduction of local 28. Jack Pearl (Baron CANADA and MEXICO programs and at the same time enables you really to travel the Radio Waves. 10. Ted Husing Munchausen/ 2. Your set must be properly installed and serviced. Even a good set 11. Lowell Thomas 29. Eddie Cantor will not get distant stations unless it has a good antenna system. Every port of pXkoduiÈatc ei,Ya/y ee your radio set must be in good working order. 12. Guy Lombardo 30. Kate Smith 3. You need good tubes. A good set, properly installed and serviced, is of 13. Ethel Shutta 31. George Burns little value unless it is properly powered. It must have good radio tubes. And good tubes mean either Cunningham Radio Tubes or RCA Radiotrons 14. Al Jolson 32. Gracie Allen Location, Call Letters and tubes designed with reserve power - power that tracks down the weakest radio signal and keeps bringing it into your home so that it can be under- 15. George Olsen 33. Molasses stood and enjoyed. 16. Harry Richman Frequency all Stations 34. January of 4. The power of the station you want to listen to. In general, the more power a station has, the further it can be heard. 17. 35. Fanny Brice 18. (- Clara, Lu 'N' Em 5. Atmospherics. The atmospheric conditions have an effect on radio reception 19. 36. Heywood Broun from distant as well as local stations. Strong static, either natural or man- unninqham unnin qharn made, will prevent good radio reception. 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