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Money Prizes for Radio Articles

We want you to tell our readers how you have overcome your wireless troubles. Every radio operator, amateur or professional, has en- countered difficulties in building or using his apparatus. Many different people are bothered by the ve7'y sarne problems day after day. It will help you to learn how others worked to get successfid results, and it will 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 $25.00 and $15.00 respectively. The prizes will be awarded to the two writers whose articles, in the opinion of the Editors, will prove most helpful to the readers of the magazine. The Judges of the Contest, who ivill be the Editors of the Popular Science Monthly, will select the prize-icinning manuscripts from those ivhich conform with the following conditions:

CONDITIONS OF PRIZE CONTEST

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

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

8. 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 be considered.

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

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

5. The decision of the Judges, which will 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 wireless section of the Popular Science Monthly. The merit of these letters ivill not be considered in award- ing the prizes, but their suggestions ivill be taken as indications of ivhat types of articles are of the most value to our readers.

7. If contestants wish to have their manuscripts returned, they should

send postage for that purpose.

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

present your information in an article of that length, write several articles, each on a different phase of the subject, and each independent.

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