REVOLUTIONARY RADIO INVENTION CLAIMED BY CHRISTCHURCH MAN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 257, 8 October 1931, Page 6

REVOLUTIONARY RADIO INVENTION CLAIMED BY CHRISTCHURCH MAN

"Gold-Makers" Say They Have Found a New Use For Chromadyne STILL ENGAGED IN "MANUFACTURE OF SYNTHETIC METAL THOUGH the world is talking of going off the gold standard, I the Christchurch goldmafcers, whose sensational claims were made public over a year ago, have not gone out of business. They still claim to be making synthetic gold, but in their experiments with the magic use of chromadyne, they claim to have evolved, through its use, a radio receiving set with revolutionary features.

A Sun reporter visited th° asbestoslined, and extensively-wived "T!. where Mr. G. P. Aston experiments with chromadyne and where he says 11.6 carat gold, highly magnetic, and unit'-!:! .'•! quality, is produced. This prodiiftifu is put through a special process to preserve its atomic weight. But it was of the radio set which Mr. Aston desired mostly to talk. He said that a company with a capital of £SOOO, called Electric Elements. Ltd., had been formed and would place a set on the market at. considerably less cost than anything else on the market to-day. It is an A.C. radio set without a power pack, it is of eight valves, and has a full chromadyne wiring diagram. Through carrying no power pack, a transformer is unnecessary. Screen grid receiving tubes are used, and Osram valves are installed. Mr. Aston says that through the use of chromadyne, radio reception will be revolutionised. With the completed sot he says he has received stations all over the world by day or night; the selection is greater, and static has been cut down to minimum, with fur-

fier experiments in train in that direction. Mr. Aston says that the set works best on a sft aerial and requires no earth. The whole secret lies in two crystal tubes, and he claims that it is not necessary to patent the set, because the tubes which are substituted for the power pack cannot be reconstructed it' taken down. He challenges anyone to monkey with the tubes and obtain results afterwards. A two years guarantee will be given with the set, and the tubes will be guaranteed for 30 years. All the parts wTil be of English or New Zealand manufacture. In the power liou.se which is away from what Mr. Aston calls the "gold room," are four 25 kw. 32 volt Tilling Stevens generators running at 500 revolutions a minute. "The whole chromadyne plant," he said, "is running on a (iOO volt circuit and there is not a transformer in the building. The gold-making plant uses 46,000 watts and the voltage from the power-house is 32 volts! That is what we are doing with chromadyne."