"Tiny Tim" on Shipboard KSL Picked Up on 30 Foot Aerial

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 46, 24 May 1935, Page 46

"Tiny Tim" on Shipboard KSL Picked Up on 30 Foot Aerial

To the Editor. Sir,-I have just read ‘Would-be Constructor’s" letter in a recent issue of the "Record" and am writing this. to give him aq little encouragement. 1, too, have built the "Tiny Tim" and have had very good. results with 1, especially as I am using it on board ship, and as my aerial is only about 30 feet long, coming down from the top of the funnel. As the latter is a large mass of metal, it is bound to have a dampening effect on all signals. I also am going to try an audio stage as described in the "Times" of January, 1934. On the broadcast I have logged 20 Australians, but my best. catch was last night-KSL, Salt Lake City, on the broadcast band, which I think is yery good considering .my aerial, ete. Those on shortwave are: $0-metre coil, W9XF, Chicago; WSXK, Pittsburg, besides Qhumeérous "bams." On the 40 metre, Daventry, VK2MlU Sydney. VK8MB and VK8LR, Melbourne, and VE7TXL, Tasmania, working VK7RC, Tasmania. I have also heard several foreigners, but did not: get their calls. I think this proves what this wonderful little set will do, even under adverse conditions. To obtain selectivity when close to a station, I connect the aerial via a ,0003 mfd, reaction condenser, which sharpens up the tuning, Wishing your publications every

success.-I am, ete.,

E.H.

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