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With a modern radio receiver we can be, and many of us are, in much the same position as the modern automobile owner. The latter puts gas in the tank, oil in the engine and water in the radiator. He knows his car has a carburetor, a storage battery, a generator and an ignition system, but has little more than a very general notion of their location and functioning. He has purchased his car for transportation, not as a short cut to a knowledge of internal combustion engines, gears, springs and brakes. With the purchase of a good radio receiver we expect to supply it. with “juice” and expect it to supply us with entertainment. We know that our radio contains transformers, condensers and a heterogeneous group of tubes. Few of us, comparatively speaking, know the condensers from the transformers and we don't care a hoot about knowing. What we do want is service and we are willing to save time and money fair ourselves by letting an expert, who makes the automobile or the radio his life's work, expeditiously cure the ills - or better still, prevent them. There are, however, those wee ills, which may cause serious irritation but are, for instance, very simple to find and very easy to rectify. For instance, every intelligent motorist should be able to replace a flat shoe. just as every radio owner should be able to replace a burned out tube. On the other hand, the readjustment of a carburetor for a change of season or the replacement of a radio transformer are jobs for the serviceman. We have not forgotten that there are many perfectly skilled auto mechanics and radio fans who wish to make their own adjustments and repairs, because they are interested and really get a "kick" out of doing the job themselves. But the great majority is the ever increasing group who do the driving and the tuning after someone else does the servicing. This group is growing because more and better servicemen are now available and the manufactured products have become much more standardized. Accordingly, we have made a survey of the simple as well as the complicated radio service problems and present, for the first time, a book which will enable the radio owner to rectify simple troubles or enable him to have his radio always at its best as well as providing for the professional serviceman a lot of very practical and up-to-the-minute service information, from the pens of the best authors now writing on this subject. We feel that this entire subject is one which can interest. every radio owner and serviceman and that there are few men in the country who could handle the work as masterfully as Zeh Bouck. Mr. Bouck has been very active in radio for many years. He has contributed to many of the leading periodicals; has designed and has built almost every type of radio receiver and transmitter imaginable, is at present consulting engineer for several radio companies; a licensed radio operator and. incidentally, Managing Editor of the new Mackinnon-Fly magazine, “Aero News.” In the selection of the material for use with the gleanings from Mr. Bouck's pen, we believe our readers will agree that the choice has been excellent and that this volume sets a new pace in the service field. |
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