Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1934 — Page 24

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Later Models Less Costly Than Old Type

More Value Given With Newest Sets All-Wave Cost Less Than Standard in Past. One of the outstanding achievements of the radio industry this season is the economy with which makers have worked in producing and putting on the market the new sets for 1935. Despite the vast progress that has been made in the improvement of reception, widening the domain of the dialer, and enhancing the tone quality, prices compare favorably with those quoted last year and are far and away below the figures that used to be quoted for good sets. In the early days of broadcasting it was necessary to spend between S2OO and SSOO to get a set capable of earphone reception. With the advent of the all-elec-tric receiver, which eliminated the need for batteries, the average consol model sold for about S2OO and more pretentious sets were priced as high as $1,500. Greater Dollar Value Study of prices being quoted today indicates a tremendous surge in the dollar value the radio buyer is getting. The development of the all-wave set does not seem to have had any marked influence on price. For the all-wave set, which is capable of globe-girdling reception, can be had in a handsome console model for around SIOO, and in some cases less. Present-day radios of the console type incorporating all of the modem improvements which make for better tone quality, greater selectivity. and which are more beautiful pieces of furniture, capable of greatly outperforming the older sets which sold for as high as $1,500, can be had this season for as low’ as SSO in standard broadcast models. Many manufacturers, in order to make some, if not all, of the shortwave bands available to the market at the lowest possible cost to the radio fan, are exhibiting sets which retail for much less than the all-wave instruments but which have part of the all-wave ability. Wide Model Range Many table-top types are in this general range. The full lines of most of the manufacturers whose local representatives are participating in the radio progress exposition, offer a wide range of models among which one at least may be found to fit every purse. The radio-phonograph* combination. a survey of the lines shows, is staging a comeback this year, probably because of the fact that the manufacturers have been able to produce an instrument for the reproduction of music of almost any conceivable kind, at more reasonable cost than ever before in the history of the industry.

Steamships Have Short Wave Lanes Many ocean-going vessels noware equipped for radio as well as wireless communication with the countries between which they travel. The frequency bands on which they work are. in meters, as follows: 1685 to 18.27: 22.50 to 24.30; 33.93 to 36.58 and 67.87 to 73.17. Call letters for some of the British ships are GBZW, Berengaria; GFWV. Majestic, and GLSQ. Olympic. Call letters for some German ships include: DDAS Bremen: DDDT. Deutschland, and DAAC, Bremen. The American ship Leviathan's call is WNBN. STYLE BY RADIO Fashion shows are using the radio to spread the gospel of feminine style around the nation. A New York store recently organized a style show which w-as produced simultaneously in other cities throughout the nation. Through radio the presentation of the style shows were synchronized simultaneously.

‘ Magic 9 Used to Describe Radio

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Photos from Stewart Warner and RCA Victor. Radio manufacturers have endowed 1935 all-wave sets with such remarkable contrivances for aiding the dialer that the term “magic dial” has been applied by one to describe the inside view above while “magic brain” is the name given by another manufacturer to his pictured front and rear in lower panels. 6

Ding Dongs and Cuckoos May Mean Foreign Stations Ahoy! IPs a Riddle of Radio That All-Wave Dialing Has in Store for You. When is a cuckoo call not a cuckoo call? When it’s the station signature of CTIAA at Lisbon, Portugal. / And that's only one of the radio riddles that short-w’ave dialing has in store for you, Mr. and Mrs. Listener-in! If you haven’t been able to get the call letters of foreign stations, either because the language is un-

familiar or because of that short period of fading just when the announcer is about to give the station letters, then you can leam to know them by their dings and dongs. Most of the foreign short-wave stations have adopted identifying signals. When you hear the steady tick-tick-tick of a meteronome, you'll know you have CNR at Rabat, Morocco . . . unless, of course, it happens to be PHI at Huizen, Holland, which also uses the metronome. Chimes From England But be rareful not to confuse the two of them with the steady ticking of the clock which is the background of speeches from HVJ at Vatican City, Italy. The familiar chimes of Big Ben come from Daventry, England . . . but a very similar signal, though not so loud, comes from FYA at Paris. Chimes are also used by station HCJB at Quito. Ecuador, for a two-tone signal to punctuate announcements. PSK at Brazil plays chimes w-hen signing off. VK3ME at Melbourne, Australia, opens its program with chimes. If you hear a gong just before an announcement, the chances are that you have YVSBMO at Maracaibo, Venezuela. Four strokes on the gong may mean either VE9HX or else C-JRX, which is in Winnipeg. There's a difference in bells, as you'll learn by comparing those of the Kremlin (broadcast at the beginning and end of each program from RNF. Moscowi and those of Saint Peter's from Vatican City. The Danish station OXY plays a tune on a music box before signing off. but don't confuse the signals with those of the German stations DJA and DJE, which also use a music box to play an old German folk song. National Anthems National anthems you'll hear over your short-wsve set include the “Marseillaise' (JFY7U, the Fascist

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On the Dial The appearance of the term megacycle on your all-wave or dual-wave radio dial need lead to no confusion. It is another unit of radio tuning and simply means 1.000 kilocycles. Kilocycles, another unit of radio frequency, also appears on the new dials. Divide the number of meters into 300,000 and you have the kilocycles or reverse the process and you have the number of meters from kilocycles. Station listings will give wave lengths in meters or megacycles, and sometimes both, or in kilocycles. Dials are calibrated to make it easy to tune in. Kilocycles seme to be used most frequently now for standard broadast and megacycles for the short-wave stations, on the new radios.

anthem (12RO) the Internationale (RNE, RWS9) and the Nazi hymn from the German stations. When you hear the familiar air of“. America,” it may turn out that you're listening to the English anthem, “God Save the King,” for the music is identical. HJ3ABF at Bogota, Colombia, is easy to remember ... a bugle call. So is the auto horn type of signature used by Bandoeng (PMC or PLF). And if you hear a bird cry, it’s probably the kookaburra (“laughing jackass” to you and you and you) from VK2ME at Sidney, Australia. RADIO IN GLOBE In England radio receivers designed in the shape of a globe to represent the world and on which a map of the world is the outside decoration, have been put on the market.

New Cabinet Style Trend Is Modern

Vertical Lines Noted But Designers Use Restraint. Progress in the design of cabinets to house the greatly improved 1935 radio receivers is as marked in its direction toward new beauty as is the improvement in the ability of the radios as broadcast receivers. There is definite indication that cabinet and console designers were influenced by the modern trend toward vertical lines when they designed the new sets. Yet the temptation which is always before the modernist to go radical w’as definitely resisted in the case of the new radios. The result is that a handsomely balanced piece of furniture that will blend beautifully into almost any American living room has been produced. Colored Dials The tombstone type of console has been forever, it is hoped, done away with, and in its place now there is a cabinet of handsome proportions gracefully molded in many instances by rounded edges and curves. Most lines are showing a wide variety of cabinet styles in the new manner, ranging in price from as low as S2O for standard broadcast on up. The world-wide receptivity of the all-wave sets has had little effect on the design of cabinets in so far as their outward appearance is concerned, except to contribute handsomer dials now done in the airplane style, and give the designers an opportunity to count upon colored dial surfaces and in one or two instances colored lights to help vary the appearance of the face of the radio. Treatment of the speaker grilles is new in most instances, and there again the designers have had an opportunity to express new trends tastefully. Matched woods, recessed details, fluted legs in some instances, and graceful molding, all having been employed in warying degrees by the different cabinet designers to enhance the appearance of the new models. Striped Effects Flanking pilasters and striped effects are for the most part the principles of design used in interpreting the modern trend. A glance at the new models indicates quickly that the cabinets of yesterday are as obsolete as are the chassis in the old machines, when compared with the new. The improvement in design has been effected not only in the console type of instrument but in the popular table models as well. The utility of these easily moved table models has served to keep them in the front rank of radios. The all-wave receiver, though it is in fact two radio sets in one, has been so cleverly designed that it can easily be put into a table model.

Wide Variety of New Models Is Offered in 1935 Radio Sets

(Continued From Page One) had to solve was the development of a radio of sufficient sensitivity to capture and interpret the short waves without destroying'the ability of the set to bring in tonal quality and range in the standard broadcast band. To illustrate how successfully this Women Announce Italian Programs Italian short-wave stations may be readily recognized by the fact that they employ women announcers. They use Italian almost exclusively, seldom broadcasting in any other tongue. Broadcasts from 12RO at Rome usually offer some brilliant music, which is in keeping with the Italian love of opera. You'll find them around 11.81 megacycles, on the dial

cf your all-wave set.

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Grid Thrills The radio, this football season. is going to take gridiron fans to a place where few of them have ever ben before—into the locker room to hear what coaches tell their players between halves. This new thrill for dialers is reported out of Cleveland, where is has been announced that Grant Ward of Columbus and Tom Manning of the former city will give play-by-play broadcasts of Ohio State games this fall over WTAM. WLW and WOSU. Red Barger of WLW is to assist the other announcers. Standard Oil of Ohio is sponsoring the program.

Short Wave Is Just Part of All-Wave Sets New Term Should Re Taken Liter ally. Short-wave receiving sets capable of receiving broadcasts from stations in foreign lands thousands of miles away are but parts of the new 1935 all-wave radio. The new 1035 all-wave set is everything that the new' descriptive term implies. It is able to get the standard broadcasts over long w'ave, which you have been getting for years now over your old sets, with anew fidelity of tone, clarity of reception and ease of control. But in addition it is able to reach across the seas and get you worldwide broadcasts of entertainment and news. It is able to pick up for you the police signals which are sent out on waves far shorter than standard broadcast, and which your old set could not capture. It enables you to listen in on messages between airplanes traveling in the air and their control stations, their weather information for fliers. And it enables you to listen to the fascinating conversations between amateur radiophone operators who are the experimenters in the realm of radio. All-wave radio, made available for the living room of your home, truly extends the domain of the dialer far beyond his fondest dreams of past yearsf. Already it has brought a revival of the fascinating period during radio development when a man in Ohio boasted of having been able to hear a Florida station and had a right to boast. All-wave is giviflg the man who goes fishing in the air an opportunity to boast of having heard Australia from that same living room in Ohio. WINS PAT ON BACK Rudy Valee is reported to be receiving pats on the back for having turned down an invitation to make a personal appearance tour this year in the United States and Europe, to remain with his original sponsor. It means letting go of plenty jack.

has been accomplished is the mission of radio progress exposition. The progress exposition thus becomes a dynamic illustration of how the radio engineers have succeeded in building a globe girdling instrument requiring no special technical skill or knowledge, which one can install in one’s home with the same convenience and ease as the standard broadcast all-electric set was installed. The all-wave radio is considered by the industry to be the greatest single advance in the march of radio progress since the introduction of the first all-electric sets. Without the all-wave features radios become obsolete. Anew era has dawned. CHINESE STATIONS Consistent reception from Chinese stations is something American dialers need not expect. Peculiar atmosphereic conditions and the skipdistance factor in short-wave radio,

may make difficult.