An Invaluable Work

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 45, 23 May 1930, Page 7

An Invaluable Work

1930 "Guide" This Week HIS news will.be welcomed by all who have known our previous "Guides," and those who are wanting @ book, couched in simple terms, to tell them all they want to know about the broad principles of radio. From all booksellers and radio dealers, then, the 1980 "Guide" will be available toward the end of this week. Last year’s "Guide" proved exceedingly popular, and the whole of the first edition -of several thousand was sold in less than two months. A second edition appeared, and now our stocks are running fairly low. We have no hesitation in saying that this year’s edition is an improvement on anything pertaining to radio that has yet appeared in New Zealand. It is essentially modern, and the latest views that have reached us from America and HEngland have been incorporated. In this respect, it will interest readers to know that, in view of the new facts coming to light, a section was rewritten, and the publication of the "Guide" delayed for a few days. Then there are the call-signs-and these are up to date. No fuller or more complete list has to our knowledge been published in the Southern Hemisphere. It gives all the particulars everyone wants to know about the stations on the air. Stations that are not likely to be heard in New Zealand have been omitted. Our list of the American stations has been compiled very carefully. The d.x. columns have been carefully combed, and all information that has recently come over the air concerning the tactics of these stations has been incorporated. , . Wishing to have a complete list of Australian stations, we compiled a good list from all the existing New Zealand and Australian publications, and sent this to press. The day the section was to be printed, a new list came from Australia, advising us that many ,important changes would operate this month, and considering that accuracy was better than speed, we scrapped the existing list, held up the printer while the new one substituted. These examples are only typical of the topicality of the "Guide." In every section everything new that is worth incorporation is there. In only very few cases is anything touched upon that has appeared in the "Radio Re cord" or previous "Guides." Where reiteration was deemed advisable tc lead up to the new matter, it was treated from a different angle and very much condensed. There are nearly 100 illustrations, photodiagrams and photographs-prob-ably not more than a dozen have ap: peared before. The size of the "Guide" has beer only slightly enlarged-a matter of eight pages-this excluding the intra ductory matter. The reader gets 16( pages of illustrated reading matter fo! his 2/6. : Remember-obtain your copy earl; from your dealer or news. agent-thi orders are heavier than ever befor and the stocks will soon. be depleted