Adventure Magazine Cover — page 201: what you’re looking at

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— Adventure Te SBOOKS YOU (AN “BELIEVE Verdicts by Experts on the Authenticity of Current Non-Fiction (GOODS and Commodities Tested by Our Experts OLD SONGS “GHAT eACEN CFLAVE SUNG Collecting and Discussing Old Songs still Living among the People speaker in neighborhood of eight hundred miles or so—one with very good reception for that distance. $100 to $125 in price. How many tubes should set of this kind require? I do not care for great distance but prefer music and reports closer and more distinctly.” — MicHAEL J. STEINER, West Fir, Oregon. Reply, by Mr. McNicol:—I have tried a good many portable hook-ups and containers, but have arrived at the conclusion that the best portable set is a regular wood box set, as used for ordinary purposes. Suitcase outfits look all right in theory but they are not rigid enough. A wood box outfit with tubes inside and with only the dials on outside answers very well. I use one of these and have for it a rain- proof covering which may be pulled on and off like a sock. For less than $100 you can buy any one of the five-tube sets complete with dry cells. Two stages of radio frequency, detector and two stages of audio amplification, would reach out five hundred miles under fair conditions. The same set with an out- door antenna fifty feet high and one hundred feet long should reach one thousand miles, unless the receiving location is poor. It would be best if you could negotiate for a set in your own territory, rather than in the east. Sailing "TBE expert who speaks below once sailed a boat single-handed from New York to Bermuda, so he should know what he is talking about when he advises these readers who want to sail down the Mis- sissippi and out to the open sea. Request:—‘The following may'strike you as a fool- ish as well as hazardous undertaking on the part of two young men who possess only a limited knowl- edge of seamanship. We have just about enough nerve to try it. Although our funds would not necessitate the buying of a pack-mule to lug it around, we believe we have enough for the purpose. We will not leave until the summer or early fall of 1927. Our plan in brief is this: We propose to buy a 199 GOMIGDOO SS C@