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 Money Prizes for Radio Articles

We want you to tell our readers hoiv you have overcome your ivireless troubles. Every radio operator, commercial or experimental, has en- countered difficidties in building or using his apparatus. Many different people are bothered by the very same problems day after day, and it uill help you to learn how others worked to get successful results. It ivill help others to learn how you succeeded.

For the two best articles describing how you overcame troubles in building, operating, adjusting or repairing any radio instrument or group of instruments, we offer first and second prizes of S'So.OO and $15.00 respectively. The Judges of the Contest, ivho ivill be the Editors of the Popular Science Monthly, will select the prize-winning manuscripts from those which conform 2vith the following conditions. The prizes ivill be awarded to the two uyriters whose articles, m the opinion of the Editors, will prove most helpful to the readers of the magazine.

Conditions of Prize Contest

1. Manuscripts must be typewritten, on one side of the paper only.

2. Illustrations must be on sheets separate from the manuscripts.

3. Articles must be addressed to the Radio Prize Contest, Popular

Science Monthly, 239 Fourth Avenue, New York, and must reach that address before June 15, 1916, in order to he considered.

4. Manuscripts which do not win prizes may be purchased for publica-

tion, at the option of the Editors and at the usual rates.

5. The decision of the Judges, ivhich irill be announced in the August,

1916, issue, is to be final.

6. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a letter containing criticisms

and suggestions as to the irireless section of the Popular Science Monthly. The merit of these letters will not be con- sidered in awarding the prizes, but their suggestions will be taken as indications of what types of articles are of the most value to our readers.

7. If contestants wi^-h to have their jnanuscripts returned, they should

send postage for that purpose.

8. Articles should not exceed 2,000 words in length. If you cannot

compose your information in that length, write more than one article on different phases of the subject, each article to be independent.

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