Dial System

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 33, 26 February 1932, Unnumbered Page

Dial System

EMOTE control of the radio now is possible with a dial system, similar to that used in dialing numbers on .automatic telephones. By = dialing simple number combinations. radio programmes and recorded musie ean be brought into different rooms of a home from a master radio-gramophone outfit installed in attic or basement. The "dial control is mounted on a small ornamental box with pilot light and is installed at desirable locations throughout the house, providing complete’ operating control of both the radio’ and gramophone. Up to eighteen different stations are pre-tuned and adjusted to the master dial unit, to respond to éasy codenumber combinations, and the auto. matic gramophone is similarly adjust-

ed, To bring in a radio programme to one of the rooms, the dial is twirled to the code. number of the desired station. In the same way, a code number is dialed to raise or lower volume, start or stop radio music, and to play records or reject them. The volume of each loudspeaker may be separately regulated by any of the dial controls. The code numbers are conyeniently listed in the lid of each control box. For the gramophone, the code number of the record-changing device is dialed. and the machine plays a continuous programme of tielye records.