i/ FULL-SIZE BLUEPRINT FREE INSIDE NO 787-VOLJOUC FEB13TP 1937 REGISTERED AT THE E.PII A5 A NEWSPAPER PRESENTS HIS ,Likamentitis.-AmifidNidi; 11 POPULAR WIRELESS February 13th, E37 An Event for all who Enjoy Thrill Stories Ti II C: WEIAREGD. TRADE MART( COMPONENTS Specified for JOHN SCOTT-TAGGART'S GREAT CORONATION SET The "SUPER CENTURION" TRIPLE EXTRACTOR COIL UNIT tionof Complete as shown PRICE 716 by LESLIE CHARTERIS or the COMPLETE EXTRACTOR- UNIT In five continents and on seven seas the Saint is Complete to original specification, the recognised king of modern buccaneers.In The mounted in attrac- 14' Return of theSaint,' The THRILLER publishes tive case. PRICE his latest escapade.Here is a powerful long novel, telling how an earnest young man, who stole £7,000 to pay a £10 debt, came within a stone's -throw ofthe scaffold, and H.F.CHOKE how the Saintsnatched him from the 8 o'clock walk TYPE H.F.J. telling of a forger who did a neat job of penmanship H .F . J. Totally Screened. ten days after he was shot at dawn ... of one who dangled Range 100 to 2,000 metres. £40,000 under the Saintly nose, and was astonished when Self capacity 7 mmf. Induc- he losthis money . .of Detective -Inspector Teal who tance220,000mh. D.C. tugged the beard of an innocent old man, thinking he Resistance 770 ohms approx. was the Saint indisguise.In fact-one of those joyous, devil-may-care adventures for which theSaint is world-famous.Meet him today ! PRICE ai Send for New Wearite Fully Illustrated Catalogue, gljD w and new black print of S.W. Battery Receiver. WRIGHT & WEAIRE LTD. 740, HIGH ROAD, TOTTENHAM, N.17 111111ILLE Telephone Tonenl,orn 3.547 :8, 9. On Sale at all Newsagents Every Saturday 873 Popular Wireless, February 13th, 1937. Z89 EditorG. V. Dowding. Asst. Editors :A. Johnson -Randall, A.S.Clark. ARABIAN NIGHTS BAND OF HOPE NIGG-LI NG RADIO NOTES & NEWS O.K. FOR SOUND WELSH CRY U.S.A.'s FLOODS The First Wireless Prophecy three hundred " P.W.'s " and a few other rejoiced exceedingly atthiscrypticre- WHAT'Sall this about wireless being wireless books. I should be pleased to joinder,for they knew what "Nigg " " prophesied in1700 and some- pbst them in lots -,-no particular order- meant. It is the name of a place just thing ? " asks W. T. L, of the to anyone (or ones) who cares to send me outside Aberdeen, where there is a fine site C.T.O., on reading my recent Note about the postage for them. (Parcel rate would not for a 5 -kilowatt station, soon to be erected. the first wireless prophecy. cost much.) It seems a pity to waste them." Five kilowatts for Nigg are better than one " John Baptista Porta," he says, " de- BUT-there is one snag !Every free niggling kilowatt in Aberdeen. scribed a ' sympathetic ' telegraph in 1558. copy of " P.W." will be found to have In 1665 Joseph Glanvil foretold communi- its " W. L. S.'s " page-or two pages- Third Network for U.S.A. cationby meansofa' sympathetic ' neatly removed ! And nothing you can say you know, the broadcasting system telegraph.' will persuade Mr. Raithby to part with ASof the U.S.A. is not a Government Moreover,hecontinues :" Re your them !It seems to me that all unwittingly controlled monopoly like ours, but correspondent'sreferencetoaBiblical this has turned itself into a pretty corn - isaprofit -making competitive business, quotation, Porta's idea was to use paid for by radio advertising. the Lodestone (natural magnet) Until recently there were two and twoneedles. Well,the WITHOUTHIS BLACK -FACE MAKE-UP big coast -to -coast networks, be- Chinese were acquainted with longing to the National Broad- the stone's properties some 2,500 castingCorporationandto years B.c., and they actually used Columbia Broadcasting System it at sea about A.D. 300.Wha' respectively.Now the Mutual 'ja know about that ? " Broadcasting System has acquired To which I rejoin that the the Don Lee Network of California wily Orientals are credited with as well as the Iowa and Central having used the lodestone for a States network, thus making a navigational magnet, but never, third big system extending from so far as I can learn, for any the Atlantic to the Pacific. kind of wireless.So what ? The Mutual folksare very pleased at having acquired equal Arabian Nights status with Columbia and Nat- SPECIALbroadcast pro- ional.This pleasure, however, grammes and news directed is not mutual ! to Arabs in Syria, Palestine and Iraq are to be included in Cry From a Welsh Heart theforthcomingtransmissions JUST a postcard, received not from the Turkish radio stations. long agoatthe B.B.C.'s Other interests, say the Turks, Cardiff station : have been misrepresenting the " Will you kindly give us some- Turkish point of view to these NOSMO KING, the well-known radio artist, with his Cossor set.The name thing lively in music as we are Arabs, and the new policy is Nos mo King was derived from the words " No Smoking " seen in an hotel lobby. melancholy enough now without intended as a counterblast. your chambersmusic in four Few of us had supposed thatradio pliment to my colleague " On the Short movements, etc., violin and piano, etc. Give receivers were among the camp impedimenta Waves."It is a true believer who will us some brass, and also not so much of news. which are nightly folded up by the Arabs literally " take a leaf out of his book " I am paying you to liven me up a bit, not when they silently steal away.But that every week ! to kill me in slow motion.If you keep on great benefit will be derived from the new * * * the stuff as you giving us this last few schemeisconfidentlyaverredbythe Nigg-ling days between the crisesof the country Turkish ruler, President Ataturk. CITIZENS of Aberdeen were not alto- you will be issuing coffins with that duff you Atta Boy, say I.Mustapha go, anyway. gether enthusiastic about the transfer broadcasting now andifyou do send to the new Burghead station of the anything good you comments when it is on Filleted Felicity radio supremacy of the north, hitherto and enjoyingyourselves and nottho WRITING from" Hollis,"Pointon, held by Aberdeen. So they asked the listeners for the love of mike give some pep Sleaford, Lines., Mr. C. B. Raithby, B.B.C. what about a few more kilowatts into it . who is known on the air as G 8 G 1, for the city of Aberdeen. This proves that it's not essential to makes a sporting offer. The B.B.C., not in any niggling mood, punctuate in order to discriminate! He says :" I have for disposal two or said" Nigg." And theAberdonians (Please turn to page 610.) THE SUPER CENTURION -OVERLEAF 500 Popular Wireless, February 13th, 1937. MY CORONATIONSET HE question: "How many valves should a set have ? " is as old as broadcasting itself. This may be a useful opportunity for considering the pros and cons of the various types of THE SUPER receivers. The Super Centurion has three valves, while the S.T.800 hasfour. Why REMEMBER THE TERRIFIC SUCCESS OF should there be a difference in the two sets ? The obvious THE FIRST CENTURION? WELL, HERE reply is that they are intended to eater for different IS AN ENTIRELY NEW VERSION, JUST publics, and different performances.But tin detailed AS ECONOMICAL AND EASY TO BUILD reply is by no means as simple as all this, and in any case AND USE, BUT EVEN MORE WONDERFUL no one wants to feel that he is getting poorer results INITS PERFORMANCE because he is paying less.Unless the receiver were frankly a local station set, and this were made very clear at the time, I should not offer a receiver with poor per- sive. A receiver designed to give superlative quality on the formance as regards foreign stations merely because there main stations and where very large volume is desired is was a public which did not want to pay the full price of a almost essentially a special job.On the other hand, a good set. receiver for the reception of short waves is a more It is an old saying that you pay for what you get, and highly specialised piece of work.Sets which will receive this no doubt applies to a very large number of products, only the medium and the long waves and sets which are but I am not at all sure that price is a reliable criterion so-called all -wave models involve considerable differences of a wirelessreceiver. We all have our suspicions, in design and, given a certain amount of money to spend, sometimes, that some of the low-priced commercial sets a better set could be produced for simply the two wave- are just as good as the bands. same firm's more ex- There are one or pensivemodelsand two firms who go in that the extra price is for particularly high- calculated to rope in gradequality, and snobbish people who think nothingof feelthat they must sticking on another have the best at liter- twenty poundsfor allyallcosts. Of this feature. course, there may be a few modificationsal Special Features regardsthecabinet Thehomecon- and insignificantdr. structor is a much tails,butfrequently more shrewd person. the same circuit and He knows what to perhaps eventhe look for even if he same chassis is incor- doesn't know quite porated. what he wants.If Ileave out audio Choosing a Set reaction on the The designer's atti- S.T.800-afeature tude towards his pro- which was so praised spective set is governed and starred in the by therequirements S.T.700-he wants of the public for which 1937's GREATEST SET-to know why.If heiscatering.