The "Super Six"

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Page 15

The "Super Six"

QUR r&xt set, the "Super -Six," is the most powerful set that we ave yet described in the "Radio Record" columns, It is a set which, though smal! and economical, will surpass in dis-tance-getting ability and selectivity any | other set to date. Comprising only six

valves, the set is really very small, and occupies no more space than does the average four-valve Browning Drake. It is not difficult. to make nor is it expensive either to make or to operate. It is modern-essentially so-using two screen grid valves and a pentode. A super-heterodyne circuit is employed enabling the use of a loop, but for those who want to go after dx, 4 special coupling coil has been design which will enable them to use an aerial. However, in our test, we found that the loop was all that was required. On this it would bring in anything that atmospheric conditions would allow. Wellingtonians will know the situa

oa tion of the Dominion Building, in which are the "Radio Record" offices. They know that not more than fifty yards from it is 2ZW, while 2YA is less than a mile away. The building has a steel frame, yet with a loop antenna and with both 2YA and 2ZW operating, we were able to raise Christchurch without a whisper of interference. The set taken from the office to @ suburban home, proved itself capable of bringing in Australians and Japanese without an outdoor aerial. When this latter was coupled to the set the Americans were brought in at good strength, and not only were all these stations quite cleanly separated from the locals, but the locals themselves were restricted to a very small portion of the dial. Both 2YA and 2ZW could be tuned out in a degree, a truly remarkable standard of selectivity. This rather remarkable set will be fully described in the "Radio Record" in the very near future.