Crystal Control

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 7, 31 August 1928, Page 7

Crystal Control

compliments for 2YA. v "ANY favourable reports have been ' peceived regarding the improved reception of 2YA since the installation of crystal control. One of the most interesting comes from a listener not far from New Plymouth. He writes: "T am writing these few lines to you in reference to the crystal control which has just been installed. Well, it has made a wonderful improvement to the receeption. The clearness of the station is beyond anything and very steady. I am operating a fivevalve set, and have been a listener for just two years, and appreciate what ‘the company are doing to improve reception for all listeners. There are several -listeners in my locality who are nothing but growlers and finding fault all they can with 2YA. For myself I would not have anything to do with them and won't join the happy family. I had one of them out here two months ago listening to 2YA, and he. went away thinking a great deal. That night’s reception was ‘perfectnot. a fade or distortion of any sort. All they found fault with was the strength of 2¥A compared with 1YA. There was no difference, but what has that to do with receeption? I am quite satisfied, and good luck to the company." (THE Los Angeles station KFI, which ~ has also just recently (subsequent to 2YA) installed crystal control, also reports that: the change-over has had. ) ry satisfactory results. It is stated: the northern part of California, where reception of KFI has been almost impossible during the summer months. radio fans have wired that KFI is now coming in clearly and loudly without fading, which is an unusual record for this time of the year. DX fans on the east coast who were formerly able to barely hear KFI’s carrier wave. are now able to bring in. the station so that the voices and musical numbers are audible."