THE UX222 BOOSTER UNIT

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 14

THE UX222 BOOSTER UNIT

READER writes for information as to what this unit will actually do. What is claimed for it is clearly stuted in the heading to the ariicle"Adds high Rv. amplification to any receiver." "It was also stated in the preliminary announcement the preyious week that when attached to an ordinary four-valye Browning-Drake recciyer the volume would be doubled, This was proved by an actual test on such a receiver, tuning in several Australian stations. Added to the two R.F. Browning Drake, tremendous volume, far too heavy for the present audio system, was the result, this increase being upon reception of distant stations, The unit in a slightly ditfferent form as to lay-out is being extensively used in America, and time only permitted the writer to make such tests as would confirm the correctness of the claims made for it. The Editor has just received a letter from a correspondent who,a mongst other matters, states: "I have built a Booster, using the new UX222 valve, and attached to my receiver it makes it a set of great volume and a help.to DX reception. It can recommend it to anyone: it does all it is claimed to do." There is no doubt that the unit, if constructed to specifications, will "deliver the goods,’*