The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-13

O N104 4A4O iset in a cigar box and it is giving him much pleasure each night. The following is taken from the Radio World and is as true as the one Kipling wrote.
 with apologies to Rudyard Kip-
 ling)
 If when everything received is only static
 When 'cat calls" drown the music
 you would hear. When frying comes in volume un- molested,
 When tube noises" only greet your
 tired ear.
 When your voltage seems to be an
 awful muddle
 And reception sounds like beating
 on a can
 You can calmly smile and say, "It's
 too much current"
 Then I'll know my son you really
 are a man
 Royce Ledford. who lives on Sec- ond avenue, north. has a crystal re- ceiving set.
 Walter Stange has a single tube re- ceiving set using spider web coils for inductance. Walter made his own set.
 This is to remind you fellows that again next Saturday (Age-Herald Radio Day) we will give away an- other complete Age Herald Radio receiving set with head phones n everything. We had a big crowd last Saturday and we want you to help us have one next Saturday. Last radio day, VIII Henry, 2505 k, Sixth avenue, north, was the winner of the set and his set gave him the most satisfactory results he stated when he called us up to say how glad he was to get the set. We have not not given away one radio set that did not work as soon as the lucky boy tried them out and they not only worked, but gave such fine results that each boy could hardly tell us how pleased he was.
 Don't forget to be down next Sat urday morning. Il o'clock. Age-Her- ald building. You may be the lucky one.
 William Fort, Fourteenth avenue south tells us that he has made some changes in his set and finds that they make his set work even better than it did before. William states that he put variable con denser across the plate and grid of his ,detecher tube which makes his set very sensitive. He has a loose coupler, a variometer in tho plate circuit and he also has a one stage audio frequency amplifier which he constructed.
 On June 29, J. Lowell Young ar- rived at Hermosa Beach, Cal, which is about 20 miles southwest of Los Angeles. Az he was a radio en- thusiast he quickly strung up an aerial of No. 20 cotton covered wire about 20 feet long With a regen- erative set to yether with a one stage
 frequency amplifier he had little trouble in hearing the Los Angeles broadcasting stations-but imagine his surprise when he caught more distant station and found he was listening to K D K A at East Pittsburg, Pa. He states that the weather condi- tions were very favorable and he heard the call signal distinctly four times.
 One of the periodicals from Col umbia university has an article in it of the man who is probably talked of more in the Wireless World than any other person today. This periodi- cal states that they understood Arm strong Is known among the radio fans as feed back" Armstrong but he was known to them as Army so Army he Is. They go on to say that in 1913 he had the foresight to draw out the original Armstrong circuit" which he discovered while at the university and had it witnessed by notary. As we all know, this invention is one of the greatest, if not the greatest that ever happened to radio. He has now discovered new hook up" which he calls the super regenerative circuit and 1t ann plifies as much with three tubes as the former method did with nine and eliminates outdoor aerials. This Is still in its experimental stage but will soon be on the market. Mir. A. c. Wade of the Birmingham Radio company has constructed very unique set which would be very interesting for you boys with the ann bition to make a midget set. to see. long and 8 inches wide The dials are engraved and # of an inch in diameter and the knobs are about S-16 of an inch in diameter. The set contains vario- coupler which has a primary inch in diameter , and the secondary F of an inch in diameter. The former Is controlled by a switch of nine points. The ball part of the crystal detector is so small that it had to be made by ieweler