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One of the most valued friends of the Radio Boys was Doctor Amory Dale, the pastor of the Old First Church of Clintonia. The doctor had been a star athlete in his college days and still retained the youthful spirit and outlook that kept him in close sympathy with the boys. He was also deeply versed in the mystery of radio, and had been of great assistance to the Radio Boys in giving them pointers on the new science. Again and again they had brought their problems to him, and he had helped them solve them.

The Radio Boys won prizes in a competition for the best home-made radio sets; they were instrumental in tracking down by means of radio a rascal who had defrauded an orphan girl, and this involved them in a host of thrilling adventures. How this all came about is told in the first book of this series, entitled: “The Radio Boys’ First Wireless; or, Winning the Ferberton Prize.”

In other volumes are described their further exciting experiences in the realm of radio. At the seaside, where they had carried their radio sets, they learned a lot about the communication between the shore and ships, and in a terrible storm were able by a message to save the vessel on which their own people were voyaging. They also were instrumental in rescuing people who had been run down by a stolen motorboat and in balking another scheme of Buck Looker’s. A little while later, they had the fascinating experience of being placed on a sending program and broadcasting their work to hundreds of thousands of hearers. Turning from the sea to the woods, they were able to overhear and expose a scoundrelly plot of financial sharpers and to secure the return to jail of desperate escaped convicts.