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...approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball on the wings. One wing tip knocked off the Who, Me?'s antenna, and another scraped the forward gunner. The plane swept like a piece of paper into the darkening...
Goodyear's new "radio static neutralizer" has a set of electronic tubes that intercepts outside electrical interference and reduces it to less than one twenty-thousandth of a volt. In one test a 25,000-volt spark projected on a radio antenna was so effectively tamed by the neutralizer that the set smoothly brought in a short-wave broadcast from Europe. But the neutralizer is reserved for the armed forces, will not be available to civilians until after...
...Army Air Forces have developed and already put into use a hand-powered radio transmitter by which flyers forced down at sea can call for help. A compact (35 lb.), waterproof, unsinkable affair, the transmitter has a tiny antenna which is raised into the air by a pair of balloons in a calm or a box kite when there is a wind. To signal with it, the operator simply turns a crank, which both generates power for the transmitter and automatically grinds out the SOS message...
...radio the waiter for a scotch and soda. At a nearby table there is a terrific blonde. She is wearing a radio set on her head too. It is made, like a smart feminine hat, embroidered with flowers. You see her now; you look interested. You examine her antenna out of the corner of your eye and try to estimate her wave length. You try to contact her but with no success. At last she hears...
...click that nearly breaks your eardrums. You radio-for another drink to restore your nerve and try again. This time she is more responsive. She looks your way and turns on her transmitter. She has lovely eyes. By this time she is putting out so many watts that your antenna is getting a sun tan. She wants you to come over and sit with her. You get up and come in on the beam...