Automatically Tuned Sets

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 29, 1 February 1929, Page 32

Automatically Tuned Sets

Future Developments el CORRESPONDENT sends the following interesting clipping from "The Daily Mirror." . It has always been the desire of some people to have a wireless receiver which would give, in return for the movement of a switch, such stations as London, Paris, Berlin, and others, at will, without the necessity of any tuning. It had hitherto been looked upon as an ideal, but as a doubtful attainment. These people are likely to realise their ambition if the "Universal Automatic Receiver" shown at Olympia develops as the manufacturers anticipate. It is a very interesting set, which has a series of switches, in appearance not unlike a telephone switchboard, each of which is intended to produce two stations without any bother of tuning-in. , The idea is that, when the receiver is installed in a house, certain sta~ tions are tuned in, each apparently on a separate coil, and it is claimed that after this procedure there is nothing more to be done except to move a switch to whichever programme is required, an operation easily carried out by even a young child. If the claims of the makers are substantiated, this "Automatic" will be found in many homes in the near future, judging from the interest shown in it at the exhibition.