Radio Broadcast - 1925, February - 113 Pages ... - VacuumTubeEra

JUST BEFORE ELEVEN O CLOCK
On the first night of the International Radio Broadcast Test at Mitchel Field, Long Island. Under command
of Capt. H. M. McClellan, men of the jth Observation Squadron, U. S. Air Service, set up special
radio receiving and transmitting trucks shown in the photograph. Communication was maintained with the
laboratory of the magazine by short wave radio telephone and code. Various stations in England, France
and Radio Iberica, Madrid, were heard here
The International Radio Broadcast
Test of 1924
A Review of the Second Annual Test Between Europe and
America What They Proved Socially and Technically
Sidelights on the Event Which Interested Nations
BY ARTHUR H. LYNCH AND jriLLIS K. WING
thousands of letters, telegrams,
telephone calls, and personal messages
which we
THE
received during and after the
International Radio Broadcast Tests,
concluded a short time ago, proved conclusively
that the signals from foreign broadcasting
stations were heard in every nook and
cranny of the United States. Reports came
with surprising accuracy and regularity from
California and Oregon as well as New York
State and Maine.
The average moderate-sized house has, perhaps,
twenty-five forty-watt electric lamps to
light it, which consume about one kilowatt of
energy. Consider, then, that these avid and
enthusiastic radio listeners who strained at
their receiving sets each night of the tests were
trying to pick up signals from transmitting
stations using a power equivalent to that consumed
by about fifteen forty-watt lamps, and
then marvel, as we all do, that the foreign
broadcasts were so generally and so well heard.