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68o Radio Broadcast
Wireless World and Radio Review. Mr. Pocock,
working with the British Broadcasting
Company in the tests of 1923 made the complete
arrangements then, and cooperated with
them in verifying reports and in answering
correspondence with the great number of interested
British listeners. This year, his problem
was a vastly more difficult one. Arrangements
with scattered broadcasting stations on
the Continent had to be made. Programs
were finally arranged with stations in Spain,
France, Belgium, Italy, Denmark, and Germany,
and difficult problems were excellently
solved. Working
in close cooperation
with him was
Captain A. G. D.
West, assistant
chief engineer of
the British
Broadcastin g
Company, and
when Captain P.
P. Eckersley,
chief engineer of
that .company,
returned from
his trip to this
country to attend
the Hoover
Radio Conference
in Washington,,
he, too, lent
his valuable aid.
North American
listeners owe
a great debt to
the broadcasters
abroad who sac-
'
rificed their rest for seven nights and sent
programs from four to five A. M. It was no
small task to maintain their regular schedules
and to make the necessary arrangements for
the special late test programs as well.
The operators at the high-powered transatlantic
stations of the Radio Corporation of
America at Carnarvon, Wales, and at Christiania,
Norway, listened for American broadcasting,
and were successful in hearing many
complete programs.
ARRANGEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES
THE
first task on this side was to secure
the cooperation of the five hundred and
fifty American broadcasters. This meant
the sacrifice of probably their most valued
program hour to allow listeners here a clear
ether for the foreign signals. Without notable
CAPTAIN H. M. MCCLEI.LAN
exception they agreed to make every necessary
arrangement. In Canada, Mr. Jacques Cartier.
director of station CKAC, La Presse, at Montreal
undertook to make arrangements with the
fifty-odd stations north of the border. Cooperating
with him were the independent
stations and the large chain operated by the
Canadian National Railways. In addition,
the Cuban Telephone Company aided, with
their station p\vx, as did other Cuban broadcasters.
Station \YKAO.. at Porto Rico, also
joined in the arrangements. The stations of
El Excelsior and El L'nk-crsal in Mexico City
helped as well.
United States Army Air Service, at a special super-heterodyne
loaned him by RADIO BROADCAST. This is the same "super"
which was successful in reaching out to London and other
English stations in the transatlantic tests of last year. This
receiver brought in Madrid, Bournemouth, Newcastle, Cardiff
and Paris this vear
toward
efforts
the success on
this side were
Among the or-
who
ganizations
lent their best
the United States
Army Air Service,
who extended
their facilities at
Mitchel Field,
Long Island, the
General Flee trie
Company, who
gave complete
informal ion
about the tests
through their
various stations.
In transmitting
periods from this
side station WGY
made all their announcements
in
five languages
to make identification of their signals easy for
foreign listeners. The Radio Corporation of
America had the operators of their high-power
stations listen for foreign broadcasting, and
the staff at their Chatham station turned in
several complete logs of reception. The
broadcasting stations of the Corporation took
a very active part in the tests as well. In
addition, the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company gave the full support
-of their stations and on at least one night,
programs from KDKA were re-broadcast in England
for listeners there. The Radio Trade
Association, the American Radio Association,
the National Association of Broadcasters', the
Esperanto Association, and the Ilo Association
were most effective in their respective fields.
Newspapers throughout the country were
most active in covering the tests as a piece