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THE AUSTRALASIAN RADIO WORLD

Devoted entirely to Technical Radio

and incorporating

ALL-WAVE ALL-WORLD DX NEWS

VOL. 10 - AUGUST, 1945 - No. 3

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PROPRIETOR — A. G. HULL

Manager - DUDLEY L. WALTER

Secretary - Miss E. M. VINCENT

Short-wave Editor — L. J. KEAST

For all Correspondence: City Office — 243 Elizabeth St., Sydney, Phone: MA2325

Office Hours — Weekdays: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays: 10 a.m.-12 noon

Editorial Office — 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney

Victorian Advertising Representative — W. J. LEWIS, 20 Queen St., Melbourne, C1 'Phone MU5154

Subscription Rates: 6 issues - 5/3; 12 issues - 10/6; 24 issues - £1; Post free to any address.

Service Departments — Back Numbers, 1 /- ea. post free; Reply-by-mail Queries, 1/- each

Printed by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney, N.S.W., for the proprietor of the "Australasian Radio World," Elizabeth St., Sydney (Footnote P.36)

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CONTENTS

CONSTRUCTIONAL —

Making Paper Condensers. . . . 11

Small Hints for Big Effects. . . . 15

TECHNICAL —

Radio for Model Planes. . . . 5

Eliminating Hum. . . . 6

Trade With America. . . . 7

A Short Course in Radio Fundamentals. . . . 18

Decibel — a Logarithmic Function. . . . 22

The Theory Behind Proper Amplifier Design. . . . 26

SHORTWAVE REVIEW —

Notes From My Diary. . . . 30

New Stations. . . . 32

Loggings. . . . 32

THE SERVICE PAGES —

The Service Pages. . . . 34

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EDITORIAL.

It is unfortunate that censorship has made it necessary to suppress the telling of the wonderful tale of what radio and radar have done to ensure victory, to save lives and to make the winning of the war so much more pleasant than would otherwise have been the case. I recently encountered (and I don’t mean met) a National Service Officer who really thought that the only use for radio in the forward areas was to provide the troops with light entertainment! There was a man who held the destiny of hundreds in the palm of his hand, yet knew nothing of the achievements of electronics. Needless to add, when I left him he had an impression that there was something more to radio than horror serials. I hope that I did not reveal any of the "Confidential" and "Top Secret" angles on the latest methods of gun aiming, shell velocity measuring, and so on. I feel that it is the duty of every one of our readers to do what he can to spread the gospel about radio and radar, even if he can only go as far as to tell what has already been released in our recent articles on radar and the vital part it played in the Battle of Britain. There is so much about radio that is not worthy. Many of the abuses of broadcasting must make the radio pioneers squirm in their graves, but at least radio's part in the fight for freedom is something worth while for the poets to write about. Let’s all do our part and make the most of it. It is a fine topic for conversation with your friends and customers. A. G. HULL.