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The Australasian Radio World

Devoted entirely to Technical Radio

and incorporating the

All-Wave All-World DX News

Vol. 7 - NOVEMBER, 1942 - No. 6

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Proprietor, Publisher, Editor - A. G. HULL

Editorial Offices - 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney, Phone M4078 - M4079

Office Hours - Week-days: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Not open Saturday morning

Subscription Rates - 6 issues 5/3, 12 issues 10/6, 24 issues £1, Post free to any address

Service Departments - Back Numbers, 6d. ea., post free; Reply-by-mail Queries, 1/- each; Laboratory Service, 2/6 per set

Printed by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney, N.S.W., for the proprietor of the "Australasian Radio World," 117 Reservoir St., Sydney (Footnote P.28)

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CONTENTS:

CONSTRUCTIONAL -

Super Quality Dual-Wave Design . . . . 7

TECHNICAL -

Little Known Industrial Equipment . . . . 5

The Weak Links in Reproduction . . . . 9

Handy Feedback System . . . . 11

Better Detection for the T.R.F. . . . . 13

Further Circuit Suggestions . . . . 14

Tolerances in Set Design . . . . 15

Radio Step by Step - Part 8 . . . . 18

SHORT-WAVE SECTION -

Short-wave Review . . . . 20

New Stations . . . . 21

Loggings of the Month . . . . 22

THE SERVICE PAGES -

Answers . . . . 26

P.03 - Editorial Notes

Editorial

Is television just around the corner? Again the question is raised, this time dug out of the post by the announcement that the British Government hos sent along a Major Osborne, who hos recently arrived in Australia to pave the way for television services to start as soon as the war is finished. Already there have appeared statements in the press and in broadcasting journals which hove apparently emanated from Major Osborne. These give the impression that television is wonderfully easy, quite cheap and capable of supplying people with something they want and need. Similar statements have appeared fairly regularly over the past fifteen years, but the progress of television has been quite slow, and anything but steady. Doubtless television will eventually become an interesting sideline to radio broadcasting, and also provide a fertile field for experimenting; but we still stick to the belief we have held for many years - that television will not displace radio broadcasting with a sudden rush. We still feel that our advice to readers not to invest their savings in television companies was quite sound. We would even go further and say that the same recommendation holds good for to-day and for the immediate (post-war) future. The fact that Major Osborne is with us, however, makes it fairly evident that someone is still thinking about television and, that we have something to which to look forward.