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Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 9

A New Plymouth radio amateur had the misfortune to have one of hia masts broken by a squall last week, and has since been without an aerial. On a recent evening ho happened to remark that lie had no many occasions heard such stations a. Awanui without using an aerial. This was laughed at; it was unbelievable to a party present. However, our amateur went homo, says the ‘ Taranaki Herald,’ and, using for an aerial a few feet of insulated wire hung on one wall of a room, switched on his set. He immediately picked up the car-rier-wave of the Auckland broadcasting station quite loudly, and was able to get sufficient to distinguish the various musical items. One valve only was used, with home-made honeycomb coils. To broaden the tuning a .001 blocking condenser was inserted between the output of the primary variable .€Ol condenser and the primary coil, line tuning being accomplished by inserting a screwdriver in the cores of the toils.