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ROSENFELT, Secretary Member: Audit Bureau of Circulations Radio Magazine Publishers Association Editorial and General Offices . 230 Fifth Avenue, New York City VOLUME 9 APRIL, 1928 NUMBER 10 Contents of This Issue: Radio News' New Policy .1 Novel Alitonlatie Volume Control By Hugo Gernsback 1097 By Harold A. Wheeler 1181 Television Comes to the Home, A Really Portable Radio Set, By G. C. B. Rowe 1098 By J. B. Armstrong 1132 Home Radio Photography 1101 What Constitutes Tone Quality (Part II), The Listener Speaks 1104 By Robert Neil Auble 1134 Favorite Broadcast Artists 1105 Controlling Volume in Your Receiver, When the "SOS" Flashes! By John B. Brennan, Jr. 1136 By Orrin E. 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