History of wireless telegraphy and broadcasting in Australia/Topical/Publications/Australasian Radio World/Issues/1947 08

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The Australasian Radio World

Registered at the G.P.O., Sydney, for transmission by post as a periodical.

1/-

Vol. 12 - No. 3; AUGUST 15, 1947

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THE AUSTRALASIAN RADIO WORLD

Devoted entirely to Technical Radio

and incorporating

ALL-WAVE ALL-WORLD DX NEWS

VOL. 12. - AUGUST, 1947. - No. 3.

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Editor, Publisher, Proprietor — A. G. HULL, Balcombe St., Mornington, Vic.

Short-wave Editor — L. J. KEAST, 6 Fitzgerald Road, Ermington, N.S.W. 'Phone: WL1101

Ham Notes By — D. B. KNOCK (VK2NO), 43 Yanko Av., Waverley, N.S.W.

Advertising Representative for Vic. — W. J. LEWIS, 20 Queen St., Melbourne, 'Phone MU5154

Advertising Representative for N.S.W. - Amalgamated Publications Pty. Ltd., 83 Pitt St., Sydney, Phone: B1077

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

Address for all correspondence - Australasian Radio World, Balcombe St., Mornington, Victoria

Printed by Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., 117 Reservoir Street, Sydney, N.S.W., for the proprietor of the "Australasian Radio World," Balcombe St., Mornington, Vic. (Footnote P.44)

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CONTENTS

CONSTRUCTIONAL —

"High Quality Six". . . . 9

"Q-Plus". . . . 17

TECHNICAL —

Ham Radio at Sea. . . . 5

Bias for Battery Sets. . . . 7

English Quality Amplifier. . . . 13

Radio on H.M.S. "Vanguard". . . . 21

Radio Reflections from Shooting Stars. . . . 24

Plastics to Revolutionise Television. . . . 26

International DX Contest. . . . 28

SHORTWAVE REVIEW —

Notes From My Diary. . . . 38

THE SERVICE PAGES —

Answers. . . . 42

P.03 - Editorial
EDITORIAL

About two hundred letters go through my office every week, and I make a point of reading each and every one of them carefully. From these letters I get impressions. Over the past couple of months my strongest impression is in regard to prices. Quite a number of my correspondents consider that prices of components are too high, and that radio is too expensive as a hobby. I cannot agree that radio component prices are too high, especially when compared to prices of complete factory-built receivers. It has recently been stated that the average price of an Australian receiver was £27 before the war and is now over £40, an increase of more than 50 per cent. I doubt very much whether component prices have risen to this extent. There are plenty of good reasons for increased costs and prices; gone are the days when there were plenty of boys who would work for 15/- per week. Pre-war radio factories were notorious for the way in which, they exploited this class of labour. There seems only one satisfactory way of getting cheaper components and that is by a greater degree of specialisation. At present some radio factories still wind their own coils, with their coil winding equipment standing idle for four days every week. If they costed their coils correctly they would find that they could get them made much more efficiently in factories which specialise in this line. So it goes for many other components. And in turn, if the coil winding specialists got all the coil winding business they would be able to make cheaper and better coils. A. G. HULL.