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several occasions with the enthus
iasts in Honolulu. Texas anil j
Washington became very good .j
friends in radio circles. Oregon
gave better home brew recipes
to Maine. Amateur radio thrived. 1
But what about the shorter
waves? They have been given
hut a passing thuncht. -t> A few
were privileged to uSe a wave of
220 meters under a special, lie-»!
use and most amateurs believed
!lt;s to tie .most desirable.' A. few
" i'ti imagination were finding out
j things, things, that a-tinished
■them. They found at li;'st, tint
static, a bugaboo of the art was
J remarkably diminished on wave
I : ttc’lis below loo m' te:'-;. Two
i i*t» •'tv• s'iig yotrtu’ men from mis
■croup, each ill a separate country
nushed ahead in ttiis work further
i hau ethers. After months of pre
paration, a test on a wavelength
jot 10 0 meters was carried oaf
between N'ioe. France and West
Hartford, Conn. Fred Schnell and
Upon Deiny of Xkr—cm—the—nig.ti.l_
■f November ' 20th. 1023. were
-liecessfal in a two way communi
cation with remarkahlv low pow
er. It' was the first amateur
ronimunieat’on, between tile Unit.
d States and a foreign country
Many more contacts were made in
the next few weeks between
points on the old and new contin
ents. Ryes were fully opened now
to the possibility of the shorter
wave. •
Amateurs •.forged ahead with ex
periments as did commercial com
’ panies and hot li were astounded,
. with the results. As the waves
were beaten down greater di“tan
1 ces was covered with the same
and less power. Strange happen
ings thus gleaned made plain
that a new theory for radio pro
pagation would be advanced. Am
n’eurs on the West Coast found
that on the wave length around
40 meters they could talk with
ease to those on the Atlantic Sea
board hut experienced great dif
Oeuity in communicating with an
amateur friend iust a few niite“
distant. With the aid oT ama
teurs much valuable data was an
covered and a new theory advan
ced
it is known as the Heavyside Ray
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er theory ' and Trot -to bp too tech
nical- it- moans-That, the ether
waves radiated 'from a transmitt
er are not only thrown out in
great circular disturbances leit
mm' also started out at a definite
angle shortly after leaving due
to the refracting action < f the
waves passing thru the earth's
:■ mnsph'ce, into the stratosphere
and back to earth. The bending
of the shorter waves is more pro
‘n.itnced. The circular dlsturbanc
. s:i,me\vhat like those on a still
• il l into which a. pebble has
beep thrown are very weak and
'iv Init u short, distance. This
aceonuts for she sttrai»#e««P<”crrft'R
in (he early days of 'the short
wave. That, chap In California.
•At us say Beikel v, could. talk
w1 ■ h ease to hit. friend living in
'.' .\ York suburbt .lt-ihg a wave
of -10 meters but In trying to t^ilk
to his chum over Sacramento
found it lnipo>jt4bl«>»».s'tWi>at happ
■ in’ I was tins: His signal short-,
ly after leaving, sped up info span,
■ il thru the earth's atmos
phere and into the sirs pni r •
and was reflected for the most
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pari (I iwnward. Due to the dif
erence in density, refrar'iruu or
liehdinu of the wave was caused
plying it the angle which return
ed the signal lo earth at a dis
tant •• point. --—
No. one lias ever doubted ,the
value of Amateur Radio in time of
flood or disaster in this lOitiy.
Many —tie mbit til rat ion's' have 'been
given its of their usefullness in
i llierg* ip V. -Tire l*ili!ed States
vi vm-ntria o' lias seen fit I o . re
twmx* ihf,*>n -a- him h and lias
gathered a large nutnlier to form
what is knawn as *flie Aram Am .
ten I -.--Nao work. , .-.As--sanitis e"svne is
nrV'hnized liv the Navy.. The?': news
of the Suita liar ha rt* earthquake
wag first flashed by "two am ifenf«»*W1
whiL despite the fact that all pow
er had failed connected a "hay
wire'' transmitter and established
communication with a ship nor
Utr off the coast of California.
There are many other instances
instances of service hut no less in'
importance • is the nightly chirps
;cf these' t hotisatids*. .of friendly
!'• Tows flashing out messages Of
yoiol will and cheer, nation to
notion and on'post -to metropolis:
,\ tob;issadors w ith on jTi-ir't.f clViti of
'.lie ether, speak With ihe.tele
w'aph key • a . cpmmb'n H-nguajre
<• od ' >i tri t ylihc ': inni' a -..r a hi" urulrr
Ki’andlny.' ..
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