OUTDOOR AERIAL BEST

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 12, 7 October 1927, Page 15

OUTDOOR AERIAL BEST

= VS |be to any cold-water pipe, hot-water There is no Goubt whatever but what an outdoor aerial is by all odds and under all conditions far superior as a collector to anything else. If you haye or can get an outside aerial do so, by all means, regardless of what set you have. Even an earth wire to the indoor loop helps tremendously in volume. You can attach it to negative A battery or to the centre of the loop winding The earth connection may pipe, radiator, through one of these lamp socket gadgets to the electric line, to the bell wiring, to the telephone instrument or what not. Even to a fire escape or kitchen stove it will help some. Try it if you have a loop set of any kind. | Oftentimes when a set is built for an .|indoor loop alone and there is no room for more instruments on the panel or in the cabinet you can attach an aerial 4to the grid side of the loop and groun to filament side, This the loop wat ‘| be your tuning inductance, One minke of set in particular is an example of a good commercial receiver specifically atranged this way, but any set can be '|so connected. If you are tronbled with | so-called body capacity when using & loop a single wire run to ground Ceilnection will clear this up,