RADIO WAVES TRAWL AROUND THE EARTH
Radio Waves Trawl Around the Earth SHORT radio waves travel clear a round the earth, according to inferences recently made in Germany from studies of certain receiving data, obtained at a Berlin...
...Even nior^ important was the discovery at the same station that waves completely encircle the earth, when sent out from a powerful station...
...Radio Waves Trawl Around the Earth SHORT radio waves travel clear a round the earth, according to inferences recently made in Germany from studies of certain receiving data, obtained at a Berlin station...
...Waves from Nauen were picked up, after they had, undoubtedly, made the jaunt around the world The distance traveled was accurately estimated as 42.200 kilometres, which is considerably more than the actual circumference of the earth...
...Careful examination showed a difference of one-tenth of a second between the two marks...
...New York is in frequent communication with this set and some time ago, it was noted that messages sent out on a 1C.2 metre wave length appeared doubled in the recording receiver...
...From these figures it was estimated that the path of the waves was approximately .360 kilometres high...
...obviously, one came the shorter, east-boond route and the other took the longer, westerly path...
Vol. 19 • May 1927 • No. 5
