The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1922, Page 20

» oi | PARTS OF SET AND THE COST The following approxime }] used te constructing this + ing station, The total cost depend largely on the kind apparatus purchased and nur of parts made at ANTE ing * Unele Sam will show you how Mis experts of the Bureau of hington, have ple “hook-up,” with instructions, that they cal culate should cost between S10 and $15. This set can receive concerts and fenmages from transmittings stations Within the city and from high-pow ered Broadcasting stations up to 35 the of the list will < n home NA Milles away. At night, and when the |] oo. te No. 14 oF ite crete: te yey fs Seiad 16 bare or insulated cop stanc , ae A The apparatus can receive wave : . De from 200 to 600 Rope \ or % Inch, per ft Jongths ranging ALL ESSENTIAL PARTS NAMED 2 owen — - the = >) Porcelain tube MMA, lightning switch, ground Makestoes. recetving set and! GROUND CONNECTION * The received signals come |} Wire (same as antenna wire) 4 the receiving set thru the an | ‘. ‘owe and ground connection. The | 5 are converted into an cleo | tle current in the receiving set and | . ind is produced in the “phone ‘one telephone receiver or is used. lightning switch protects the set from damage by light Tt connects the antenna ¢ ly to ground when the receiving is not in use, When the an and the connection to the are properly made and the switch ix closed, the an ‘acts as a lightning rod and ts Jon to the building. } principal part of the station receiving set. The set de here is subdivided into two the tuner and the detector ‘more complicated sets other ele are added. ATION OF A Insulators—porcelatn 1 Pulley x Lightning switeh—30 pare battery ewiteh 1 Clamps Iron pipe or rod RECEIVING SET Ounces No, 24 copper wire, double cotton covered Round cardboard box Switch knobs and bia complete . 18 Switch contacts and nuts 3 Binding poste—set screw type Rinding posts Crystal—tested Wood screws inch long Wood screws for fasten. ing panel to base Wood for panels (from pack ing box). 2 Pounds Lamp cord toot Test buzzer Dry battery Telephone Mago vaey any type “ brass. paraffin 2 to 3 cents a 50 20 $4.00 to 8.00 $10.70 to $14.70 2 receivers antenna is a wire suspended two elevated points. It should not be less than 30 feet above Total cort i | | | | LATING TUBE ] ‘and its length should be,sulator to the house should not be 75 feet. Figure 1 indicates «| lengthened to overcome this difficul- ptal antenna, but it is not im-| ty, because by #0 doing the antenna #t that the antenna be strictly | lead-in (J) would be lengthen tal. | HERE ARE DETAILS “lead-in” wire from the an-| ABOUT PARTS should run as directly as pos-| The parts will be mentioned hero to the lightning switch. If the| by reference to the letters appear of the adjoining bullding of |ing in Figures 1 and 2 4s auch that the distance be-| A and I are screw eyes sufficient them is greater than about §3/ ly strong to anchor the antenna the antenna can still be held | the ends. 4 & TS-foot distance between the in B and H are pleces of or % x by Increasing the length of | inch rope, long enough to allow the 4 Tope (D) to which the far end of |antenna to swing clear of the two A. the antenna ts attached \, The rope (FH) tying the antenna in > _ —_ _ —_— supports. 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K the lightning ewitch. 1 - the purpose of a small antenna this Figure 3 switch may the ordinary porce: | lain-bane aingle-pote | double-throw battery ewiteh, The “lead-in” wire (J) te att hed to this} switch at the middie point. The/igtea and flexible. Unbraided lamp blade should be thrown ©) cong will served for these two leads: lower clip when the receiving | Q is a flexible wire leading from tw not being used, and to th®line receiving eet binding post upper clip when it i# desired to Te) marked a. to a wane Leis ceive signals. | heating system or rome other metal L, is the ground wire for the light-| tic conductor to the ground. If there ning switch. The ground wire MAY are no water pipes or radiators in} be of the same size as used tn the [the room in which the recetving set) antenna, and should be of sufficient | is located, the wire should be run eut| hb from the lower clip | of doors and connected to a special | of the lightning switch (K) to the/"g¢round” below the window. The! clamp on the ground rod (MM). ground for the lightning switch M is a plece of tron pipe or rod/ should not be used for this purpose driven 3 to 6 feet into the ground. Tt ts essential that for the best preferably where the ground ts|operation of the recetving set thin moist, and extending a sufficient | ground be of the very best type. If ance above the ground that | the soil near the house ts dry, it will | und clamp may be fastened, be necessary to drive one or more); ts be ceiving net thru the porcelain tube] » the upper clip of the lightning switch. This wire well as the wire shown Q, should be instu-| 30-ampere, awite the vet it. Care should be taken to see) pipes or rode sufficiently deep to en-| that the pipe is clean and bright | Counter moist earth. The distance} where the ground clamp ts con. | between the ptpes will ordinarily not nected jexceed 6 fect. Where clay soil i N is a wire leading from the np-|eneountered the distance may be per clip of the lightning awitch thru| three feet; in sandy soll tt may be the porcelain tube (O) to the receiv. | 20 feet. Some other metallic condy Ving set binding post marked “an. (tr. Such as the casing of a dr tenna, } well, not far from the window, will! © im a porcelain tube of sufficient | >* & satintactory “ground ath to r h the window | EXPLANATION OF 1 ning or wa tube shoul NING COIL, be mounted In the casing or wall so! ‘Phis te a length of cardboard tub- | that it « . ward the out-|ing with copper wire wound around | side of the bu Th tone | it. The cardboard tubing may be an to keep the r Howing the | oatmeal box, Its construction will tube thru the wall to the interior, | be desertbed in detail, A cylinder of RADIO SET | weed or other non metalilc sube © | INSTALLED | may also be used Figure 2 shows the radio set CRYSTAL DETECTOR | SIMPLY MADE | The erystal detector (see figure 9) | may be of very simple construction. stalled in some part of the how The crystal, ae it ts ordina pur | chased, may be unmounted or mount led in a emall block of metal It te Jimportant that « good tested crystal * A galena crystal will be| oma tint Thru binding poet ()/ * a nail with a wood knob or cork jon tte point and a two and on inch plece of No, 34 bare wire ached below the head and bent so! jas to reat on the crystal | The crystal detector is made up of ja tested crystal, thr wood screws, la short plece of copper wire, a mall | a eet screw type binding post, and «a | wood knob or cork. The crystal is held In position on the wood base by | three brass wood screws as shown in | figure 3 A bare copper wire ts Figure 2— Inside connec-| rapped tightly around the three ieee | brass acrews for connection. The as sembling of the rest of the crystal P fe the recelving set which is| detector is shown in figure 3 lencribed in detail below. | rene ONE | N is the « leading from the) RECETV antenna” binding. post of the re-| 1+ ie desirable to use a pair of te phon receivers connected by a he: band, usually called a double phone headset, The telephone recelv ers may be mer between of the standard com. jal makes having @ resistance of 2,000 and 3,000 ohms. The double telephone receivers may | cost more than all the other parte of HARDY’S the station combined. but it in de sirable to get them, erpectally if it \is planned to improve the receiving phone receiver with a head band ma be used but with le watiafactory | results, ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT Under the heading of accessory lequipment may be listed binding | | paratus : | The binding posts, switch arma Wrist Watch nish Sia, cavseetn sony te. thee | chased from dealers who handle such goods or they may be readily impro-| | vised at home. The pleces of wood | eo may bé obtained from a dry packing box and covered with paraffin to Regular Price $20.00) Hy Chee should be token in melting the paraffin not to get it too hot Man’s Watch For, thi¢ reason it 1s a good plan to melt it in a pan set in boiling water When the paraffin just begine to $30.00 14-k. solid gold; 15-jew- eled Waltham. Regular price $42.50 Best Silver Plate Bread Tray $3.00 Regular Price 00 ALL CUT GLASS HALF PRICE Hardy & Co DIAMONDS, JEWELRY SILVERWARE 901 Second Ave. Corner Marion St UYU ome d ite Tuner, detector and connecting parts Jonehalf inches long with three nuts | slice cut | with one nut TTLE STAR thru the panel The base is of wood approximately | three-fourths inch thick, five and one half inches wide and 10% inches long The telephone binding posts should | preferably be of the setncrew type ABOUT WIKRE | CONNEOTIONS | After the several parte mentioned have been constructed and (with the lexception of the tuning coll) mount ed on the wood base, the wires may be connected to the switeh arms and binding ports and the taps may be i to the switch contacta, A wire in connected to the back of the left-hand switch-arm bolt ed into a spiral of one or two turns, like a clock ring, and then led to the back of the binding post marked | “ground.” Connection is made to the binding post by removing the insula tion from the wire and clamping be tween th nut and washer me wire is now passed thru a smalf hole and run underneath the base to the left-hand binding post marked “phone.” A wire is then run from underneath the right-hand bind ing post marked “phone” to under neath the binding post which Is part of the crystal deteteor, The copper wire, which was wrapped tightly |about the three brass wood screws that held the crystal in place, is led underneath the base, up thru @ #mall ole, and ts then connected to the back of the binding post marked “an tenna Another wire is connected |to the buck of the right-hand switch arm bolt, twisted into a spiral of one When the wood parte have been) or two turns like a clock «pring and drilied and cut to eine, the paraffin! een connected to the back of the should be applied quickly with ®/ antenna binding post small brush. When cold, the @xees®| Wrap one end of a plece of No. 24 paraffin must be carefully scraped! pare copper wire tightly around « off with a straight piece of metal nail, near the head, insert the nail much as the brass strip in the e48¢/ in the crystal detector binding post of a ruler. HOW TO WIND the crystal as shown. The detector TUNING COIL lis completed by pushing @ cork or Following is a description of the| wood knob on. the polnted end of the method of winding the tuning coll nail and the construction of the wood| The taps Irading from the tuner panele hould now be connected to the Tuning Coll—(Bee figure 3}—The | *Witch contacts, Scrape the cotton cardboard tubing is four inches in| !"sulation from the loop ends of the diameter by four and one-half inches | 1¢ twisted taps as well as from the Jong. One end of the tube should | *M4s of the two single wire taps com have the cardboard cover glued se-|!E from the first and last turns Th curely to it. About two ounces of | Fasten the bare ends of these wires No. 24 or No. 26) double cotton-cov.|to the proper ewitch contacts as shown by the corresponding numbers ered copper wire is used for winding | the cot) | Punch ¢ tub t enehaif inch from one sod. Weave | th0 looped taps. ‘The connecting tha whee tare teens ar In puch 2 | Wire® May be fastened to the switch ont ine cetera uch ® | contacts by binding them between the way that the end of the wire will be washer and the nut After all firmly anchored, leaving about twelve inches of the wire free fo ‘connect Wires from the Sener Gere rouge re - ong | nected, the tuner should be fastened s: to the base by two or thres small | y Start with the remainder of the) gerews passing thru the cardboard in figure 3. wire to wind the turns tn a single! end ‘The screws should be provided, layer about the tube, tightly and/ with washers clonely together, After 19 complete! Arter all the parts of this crystal turne have been wound on the tube. | derector radio receiving set hay hold these turns Ught and take Off peen constructed and assembled the a tap. This tap is made by twisting first essential operation is to adjust & sixinch loop of the wire together - pontine at such a place that it will be slight ly staggered from the first connee This method of taking ort tapa [| METROPOLITAN ia shown clearly in figure &. a WEEK Proceed in this manner until seven TMATINER SATURDAY | twisted taps have been taken off - one at every 10 turna, After these The Rohemians, Ine.. | fire: TO turms have been wound on 4 NW: the tube, take off « sixinch twisted | “GREE ICH ve tap for every succeeding single turn |[¥ WILLAGE FOLLIES until 10 additional turns bave been wound on the tube, After winding the last turn of wire, anchor the end Fivet ‘Time in Seattle for This Second Annual Production Identicntly as Played for by weaving It thru two holes punched [RIGHT MONTHS IN N YORK in the t an at the start, leaving | gt B WEEKS IN CHICAGO about 12 Inches of wire free for con necting It is to be understood that each of the 18 tape is slightly staggered from one just above, so that the taps will not be bunched along one line on the cardboard tube It might pe advisable, after wind: | ing the tuning coil, to dip the tuner tin hot paraffin, This will help to exclude moisture. It is impotrant to have the paraffin heated until tt fust WREK oom SUNDAY, MAY 7 The Great American Actor HAMPDEN “Ne counterpart on any stag —New York Globe begins to smoke, as previously ex- “sg, * plained, so that when the tuner is s rvant in the House removed it will have only a very thin | By, ampaen in his erie! coat of paraffin i 5 .. MAKING PANE: | “Othello AND BASE | 4 Sat. Eves. & Having completed the tuning coll, | ot whine set it aside and construct the upright Hamlet” panel shown in figure 4. This pan Fri, Eves. § o'Cleck ot ¥ “Taming of the Shrew” w may be ® piece of wood approximate. living Post ly one-half inch thick, four and one-| half inches wide and seven and one half inches long The position of the several holes for the binding poste, switeh arms and switch contacts may first be laid out and drilled, The antenna and ground binding posts may be ordi nary $32 brass bolts about one and Mat., 2115 o'Clock truchio, ——N.Y. Sun “Merchant of Venice” Bo Clock The greatest sot hie day."—-N, Y. World “Macbeth” Best Macheth of t N. ¥. Globe and two washers, The first nut binds the bolt to the panel, the second nut holds one of the short pieces of stitt wire, while the third nut holds the antenna or ground wire an the case may be. The switch arm with knob shown in figure 3, may be purchased in the assembled form or ft may be constructed from a three-eighths inch from a broom handle and @ bolt of sufficient length equipped with four nuts and two washers, and strip of thin brass somewhat as shown The end of the MAIL ORDERS Now ery, Te urday Matinee—Orchesrra, 82. y, @ rows, $1.50; @ rown, wy, TTe SOc. ce — Orchestra, switch arm should be wide enough so that it will not drop between the contact point. but —through re P not so wide that it cannot be set to | The awitch contacts may be of the jlar type furnished for this pur a ae or they may be 6-32 brass bolta and one washer each thro pa with the eae e | tap fastened under the head or sol r Perifused a a “the cosmetic ih touch only a single contact They may even be brags nails driven} we glasses of today no longer have the g conspicuous rubber tire rims" Bring in your lenses and let us PERIFUSE them tod. ‘ COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. a 1315 4th Ave. completed set 1} ldered to the projection of the nati | the fine wire which reste on the crys] “Loosen the | receiving set to reson twist | FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922. the Whole Story on Making Your Own Radio Set ncrew of the crystal tal to a sensitive point, This may | detector binding post alightly and be accomplished in several ways one! change the position of the fine wire method is to use a buaser tr tter.|to several ponitions of contact with Assuming that the most the crystal until the loudest sound point on the crystal has been f ix heard it phone Then slightly by the method deseribed in the tighten the binding post net serew graph “The Tent Buzzer,” the rest of the operation is to adjust The tuning of the receiving set 1s) Apply Zemo, Clean, Penetrat- accomplished by adjusting the induc | ing, Antiseptic Liquid are went | Htance of the tuner. That is, one or| ath of the e mm are rotated ; itt fhe paper Guntber a ‘orencatl Tt t unnecessary for you to suffer wire of the tuner are made a part! With Eczema, Blotches, Ringworm, lof the metallic eireuit ween the| Hashes and similar skin troubles, antenna and ground, so that together 0, obtained at any érug store for with the capacity of the antenna the or $1.00 for extra large bottle, receiving circuit ix in resonance with promptly appiied, will usually the particular transmitting station, | #!¥¢ instant relief from itching tor It will be remembered that there|ture. It cleanses and soothes the 6 10 turns of wire between adja-| in and heals quickly and effective cent contacts of the eight-point|!¥Y Most akin diseases #witch and only one turn of wire be mo is a wonderful, penetrating, tween adjacent contacta of the ten. | @ pearing liquid, and is soothing point switch. The tuning of the re-| to the most delicate akin. Get it to Ke careful not to cut or break any | the! } lay Ad and save all tinernent eriving set is best accomplished by further distress. tling the right-hand switch arm on fwiten arm over its contacts, it tne A NEW DISCOV- therigtttend eter armecnsa| ERY IN THE WORLD OF MEDICINE @) and again the lefvhand | switch arm thruout its range, Pro-| ceed in this manner until the desired | signals are heard It will be advantageous to now | A wonderful a = instant the wave lengths used by the radio) Net for Hay ie pl yp amy transmitting stations in the immedi. | | 0er one i ers ed ate vicinity. A greater wave length | oP st arceyns a requires more turns of the coll i noon eae wf petted by sorernigi:| ABOUT USING ae Seer Y |matter how severe or of long stand ling. Generally relief ts given in- stantly, it relieving the paroxysme like magic. In acute Bronchitis, rot TEST BUZZER The more sensitive spots on the crystal can be found by using « test | buzzer, The test buzzer ta ured an a land adjust the wire until It reste on | Mh ure local transmitting set. This wn in figure 3, The buzzer dry ry and switch may be mounted on the table or a separate board. The Bindmg port marked “ground” may be one terminal of the dry cell con nected to the binding post marked “ground” on the receiving set The current produced by the buz zer will be converted into sound by the telephone receivers and the crys. tal, the loudness of the sound depend. ing on what part of the crystal is in contact with the fine wire To find the most sensitive spot ect the test buzzer to the receiv ia wh bat co! ing set, ry adjust the buzzer so that « clear note in emitted. Set the right switch ie the switch and If neces. | Coughs or Congestion of the Respira- tory Tract, following Influenza, Grippe or bad colds, it will be found invaluable. 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