OUR INFORMATION SERVICE.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 1, 20 July 1928, Page 12

OUR INFORMATION SERVICE.

| AYTER nearly twelve months of this correspondence department, the writer has come to the conclusion that too much of his yaluable time is wasted in replying to trivial questions or attempting to give advice where sufficient particulars have not been supplied. . When the necessary details are not given it often means writing out several alternative methods of trextment to suit contingencies, and this takes time. ‘The average owner of a factory-built set is not as a rule competent to undertake repairs and alterations, and in many cases they are only making more work for the radio dovtor when he is called in, ¥or Constructors. The primary object of this service is to help constructors of receivers and apparatus that have been described in this page, and queries from such readers will always have careful attention. The writer wishes to make more time for experimental construction of apparatus that is constantly being inquired for, and strictness with trivial correspondence will help to secure this. Stamped Addressed Envelope, Tivery mail brings at least one or two queries in which the rule regarding the stamped addressed envelope is ignored. In most cases the missing stamp has been supplied and an envelope addressed, but in fufure non-inclusion will be looked upon as a good and valid ex}cuse for consigning the letter to the édwaste-paper basket, so those whe haye

not read the paper since this rule appeared, or whose conscience does not allow them to provide stamps, will be left wondering when their reply is to arrive. One object of the stamped addressed envelope is the saving of time, which amounts to quite a lot in dealing with several dozen letfers in a bateh,