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The Australasian Radio World

Devoted entirely to Technical Radio

and incorporating the

All-Wave All-World DX News

Vol. 7 - SEPTEMBER, 1942 - No. 4

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Proprietor, Publisher, Editor - A. G. HULL

Editorial Offices - 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney, Phone M4078 - M4079

Office Hours - Week-days: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Not open Saturday morning

Subscription Rates - 6 issues 5/3, 12 issues 10/6, 24 issues £1, Post free to any address

Service Departments - Back Numbers, 6d. ea., post free; Reply-by-mail Queries, 1/- each; Laboratory Service, 2/6 per set

Printed by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney, N.S.W., for the proprietor of the "Australasian Radio World," 117 Reservoir St., Sydney (Footnote P.28)

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CONTENTS:

CONSTRUCTIONAL -

The "Victory Set" . . . . 5

How to Make a Metal Chassis . . . . 16

TECHNICAL -

Great News for Enthusiasts . . . . 11

Fresh Ideas in Circuits - No. 3 . . . . 12

Radio Step by Step - Part 6 . . . . 15

Points About Aerial Efficiency . . . . 24

SHORT-WAVE SECTION -

Short-Wave Review . . . . 18

Loggings of the Month . . . . 20

Stop Press . . . . 22

THE SERVICE PAGES -

Answers . . . . 26

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Editorial

We hear plenty about the problems which experimenters and radio mechanics have to face on account of the difficulty in obtaining component parts. Yet when we go into the matter fully we find that the position is not nearly as bad as it might be. We proved beyond a shadow of doubt that it is still possible to walk into almost any good radio warehouse and purchase a complete kit of parts for the construction of a. serviceable receiver, as mentioned elsewhere in the description of this particular set. Things are bad, but after all, not nearly as bad as in New Zealand, for example, where the construction of radio receivers is totally prohibited. At the moment of writing there is talk of the new austerity campaign and we wouldn't be greatly surprised if this austerity plan embraced similar legislation to that already in force in New Zealand. Even if this does come about, the position is not hopeless, as the authorities fully appreciate the value of the broadcast receiver and, doubtless, arrangements will be made which will ensure adequate component parts being made available for the maintenance of the million and a half receivers at present in use. So long as these components are available it would appear that the wide-awake experimenter will find plenty of scope for employing his energies most usefully. Even if the manufacture of sets is totally prohibited he will be able to make a dandy job of taking an old-time chassis to bits and rebuilding it with a modern coil kit and other components to make it into a really effective set.