GOOD CRYSTAL RECEPTION

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 48, 15 June 1928, Page 16

GOOD CRYSTAL RECEPTION

LONG AERIAL AND, NOVEL BARTH, A. crystal set owner, residing at Murroon, 62 miles south-west of MsIbourne, obtaius remarkably good results by using a long aerial aud peud *"eaith,’’ He says: I have a crystal set, and I have carried out experiments seve1al lengths of aerials, With 70ft. of wire I could get 8L0 only, with y0ft. I could get faint signals from 38AR. I then tried 110ft., and this further improved SAR. I then connected the two aetials to the set — NO. and 110ft. I ceuld then get 3AR even stronger than 2L0, I have now erected att aerial 200{t. in one length, using 7-strand open. wire. I cat now get the following stations in the order named: 3LG, 3AR, 2FC, 2BL, 5CI, atid 3CZ. I have heard ae every night but ene for the last 12 davs, and ot three occasions before 8 p.m, I can only get ontside statious when 8LO and 8AR are giving lectures, news service, or antiouticements. At the sate time the ititerference is too strong to get inter-State stations when local stations have band music going. My set is not super selective, but it gives very good volume. I often heve three sets of head phones connected for 8L0 and 34R programmes, reducing the number to cue for 5CL, Adelaide, whiclt station I often get late of Sunday night. I find fading bad from Adelaide. I feel sure "that a weli-made crystal set could he used afaost "anywhere in Victoria if used in conjutiction with a large aerial asta u goad earth connection. Y wili deseribe my eaith connection. Ye is efiicient and durable. I obtained a sheet of galyanised flat iron, 26 gangs, 5ft. by 3ft., bent routid and soldered, forniing a fan

nel 3ft. by 16in. across, with the earth wire soldered to this, and let it into the ground with the tup about level with the surface. I removed all the surface and loamy soil, and replaced with goo clay, leaying about 6 inches of the funnel on top filled with water,