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682 Radio Broadcast
hope to arrange a program which will be
adhered to very closely, on which there will be
a very close time check and it is very likely
that the European broadcasters will make
much more frequent announcement of their
call letters and location, since the shortcomings
of this year's effort have been brought to their
attention.
It is very likely that with a year in which to
make our preparations and inspired by the
great success we have had this year, it will be
much simpler for us to enlist the aid of those
who have, up to now, been somewhat lukewarm
concerning the interest they believed
listeners would take in tests of this nature.
What more conclusive proof could there be of
this interest than the fact that hundreds of
thousands of us, everywhere in the North
American Continent, Europe, and Australia,
spent approximately two hours each night for
a solid week listening to (or in some cases just
listening for) stations in other lands
THE
THE RESULTS
International Radio Broadcast Tests
interested great numbers of people who
had yet to be convinced of the possibilities and
benefits of radio. They showed to practically
every listener that the menace of the radiating
receiver is so serious that some definite, militant,
and constructive measures have got to be
taken in the very near future to protect radio
receivers and to give listeners an air clear frorh
artificial, unnecessary, and absurd man-made
interference. And, too, they brought listeners
on this continent a little closer to their brothers
across the sea.
We have long talked in beautifully figurative
language about "hands across the sea," but
now in a very real sense we have voices across
the sea. No matter now if the voices could
not deliver any very complete message. It is
enough that one entire continent was listening
for another, that radio folk grew to think even
for a short time of those on the other side.
The start has been made, and in the years of
progressive technical experiment, trial and
error to follow, we shall get nearer and
nearer to nations which before had been but
names on a complicated map, or dull words in a
newspaper story.
The important thing
is that the effort has
been made, that the electrical ice has been
broken. The task is the engineer's now, and
in his capable hands we can well leave it. It
requires no glib gift of prophecy to think of
close radio unity in future years with every
nation of the globe.
Hon. Alejandro Berea.the
Consul General for Spain
at New York, in an address
recently made at a luncheon
attended by a number who
participated actively in the
direction of the International
Tests phrased very
well his conclusions about
the tests:
A CLOSE-UP OF ONE OF THE ARMY RECEIVING TRUCKS
At Mitchel Field, showing the receiver and transmitter installed and a
group of officers and men. Capt. McClellan is holding to the iron strap
on the truck. The night this photograph was taken it was extremely
cold, and there was no illumination except that furnished by
and lanterns
flashlights. The officers took the radio truck out to the center of the
landing field, away from all obstructions and listened for the foreign
broadcasts, which they heard, at times badly interrupted by blooping
I most heartily congratulate
the organizers of this communication
across the Atlantic, and
I am sure that the spiiitual
compenetration between Europe
and America will be
thoroughly perfected within a
short time by the use of scientific
transmitters and receivers;
and Spain, on account of its
geographical position and because
it is one of the nations
cf continental Europe nearer
to this country, will
be one of
the first to avail itself of the
benefits of broadcasting and
be in contact with America,
which is bound to it
by the
ties of ethnography and history.