Mystery Control

All that has been needed to make radio listening a completely sedentary occupation was elimination of the necessity for struggling up out of a comfortable chair to cross the room and tune another station. The eliminator made its appearance last week when at a dealers' and distributors' Chicago convention, Philco Radio & Television Corp. engineers demonstrated their new Mystery Control unit.

As startling as a Ouija, the small, two-pound, dial-topped box, bare of any wire connections to the receiving set, changes the receiver's tuning from station to station, raises and lowers volume. Selection is made by a gadget that looks like a telephone dial. The gadget can be carried indoors & out, works the receiver from any point within 75 feet. Philco officials are not revealing the principle of operation, letting it be known only that a radio tube and a dry cell are parts of the mechanism. The control works exclusively with the set to which it is synchronized, does not permit playing games with a neighbor's radio.

Plans to put Mystery Control-equipped sets on the market in a month are tentative because of labor trouble at the Philadelphia plant. C.I.O. pickets were on hand for the Chicago convention.

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