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The Australasian Radio World

Devoted entirely to Technical Radio

and incorporating

All-Wave All-World DX News

Vol. 9 - JULY, 1944 - No. 2

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Proprietor - A. G. HULL

Manager - Dudley L. Walter

Secretary - Miss E. M. Vincent

Tech. Editor - J. W. Straede, B.Sc.

Short-wave Editor - L. J. Keast

For all correspondence: City Office - 243 Elizabeth St., Sydney - Phone MA2325

Office Hours - Week-days: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 12 noon

Editorial Office - 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney

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

Service Departments - Back Numbers, 1/- ea., post free; Reply-by-mail Queries, 1/- each

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 -

Simple Vacuum Voltmeter . . . . 7

Home Built Communications Set . . . . 14

TECHNICAL -

R.A.A.F. Jungle Broadcaster . . . . 5

Winning Essay . . . . 8

Design Considerations for Amplifiers . . . . 10

Finer Points About Pick-ups . . . . 19

Distortion - Its Cause and Cure . . . . 20

SHORTWAVE REVIEW -

Notes From My Diary . . . . 23

New Stations . . . . 23

Short Wave Notes and Observations . . . . 24

THE SERVICE PAGES -

Answers . . . . 26

P.03 - Editorial Notes

Editorial

With the invasion going well and the war news very bright at the moment of writing, it is perhaps natural to find that thoughts are turning more and more to the post-war problems and prospects. All over the world there will be huge stores of war material to be disposed, and the old parable of the "ill-wind" may be repeated. Here in Australia it has been estimated that when the war finishes there will be radio components in store to the value of about ten million pounds. Amongst these parts will be lots of transmitting valves, condensers and other parts which will not be suitable for use in broadcast receivers. They will be a wonderful windfall for those who operate experimental transmitters. There will be great stocks of components suitable for use in building the thousands upon thousands of receivers which ·will be required to satisfy the overdue demands of the ordinary listeners, and the whole of the radio trade will need to handle things carefully to ensure that these parts are put to good use without upsetting factory production or affecting normal trading. Some radio traders are apprehensive about the possible effects of the release of war surplus stocks, but others are quite confident that the matter can be easily handled by the trade, in close co-operation with the technical press, bringing about a boom in technical radio, with all-round benefits to the radio trade as a whole. - A. G. HULL.