RADIO SERVICING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 234, 15 September 1934, Page 12

RADIO SERVICING

Learning About Wireless

A DIFFICULT TASK

A normal, innocent-looking set is heir to mon; trouble ami funny goings I on than, halt the rest ot the world’s machinery put together. The real prqI tessioual serviceman whose business it ; is to know radio, and whose gift of ' locating many troubles (almost by ini stinct the owner mav think), will tell I you he has gained his knowledge by ■ experience, just as a motor-mechanic i gains knowledge of your car. Servicemen ot ten years' experience have troubles they have never had before. There is always something new going wrong. The owner of a car would not tolerate a quarter of the troubles he does in his radio set. We often wonder why (asks an exchange). The average son to-day is absolutely up against it when it comes to learning servicing. Sets are becoming more and mote complicated! keeping the professionals at their wits’ ends to keep pace with them Unless one understands the fundamentals of radio, one is totally at sea. We would recommend any parents who wish their sons to get into the service business to have them learn to read circuits, which are the blueprints of radio, then read everything relating to the subject. Then to get hold of an old electric set or the necessary parts to build one — we do not recommend battery sets as an electric set valve for valve is cheaper to buy and maintain than any battery set as well as giving greater experience; then to build and unbuild and build again and again. By such means only is experience gained. Also a course in some good radio school, whether correspondence or practical is a wonderful help. Then the son will have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of the theoretical side of service. After that it is only a matter of being able to get sets to service, easily the hardest part of the lot.