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

What We Are Doing With Broadcasting 735
any other organization
has ever done in the
world. We were trying
to receive signals
from America! We
tried to pick up the
various hundred meter
stations, and occasionally
a reply did come
through, and occasionally
we did have a sort
of guessing competition
as to whether it was a
brass band or a piano.
We did broadcast this,
and it made a tremendous
sensation in
England; and on one
particular and historic
occasion signals from East Pittsburgh were received
in England rebroadcast, and sent to
South Africa, a distance of nine thousand miles!
We do feel that the future of broadcasting
must be intimately connected with the
strengthening of friendly relations between the
continents thus bound together by sound.
And what could be more ideal than that
America and England should be linked together
by this mighty force, inasmuch as
they are both English-speaking people, and
they will probably, after a little practice, be
able to understand one another.
There is no doubt, however, in the minds
of engineers that there is
only one thing
to do if we are to link up the two countries,
and that is
purely on the engineering side.
THE CONTROL ROOM OF THE BELFAST STATION
Call letters 2 BE, one of the newest of the British Broadcasting Company chain
It's an amazingly long way across the Atlantic.
I have just crossed it. And it seems to me
that to make that journey in -rfihr P art
of a second will take a great deal of push
behind the traveler. And one thing we
must concentrate on is the question of having
high-power stations to link up the two continents.
Of that there can be no possible
doubt. We are absolutely ignorant of transmissions
at long distances at night. But it
seems to me that inasmuch as the amateurs of
both countries have spoken to each other with
about two watts, by c. w., as reported in our
press, we feel that we can deal with 150 up to
200 watts, and it
might be possible to get communication
between the two countries; and
if we did, it would stimulate a great interest
on both sides
of the water. If we
could be certain on occasion
of hearing some
of your most interesting
pronouncements,
and you could listen
to us drawling away,
we would find that
radio really had tremendous
possibilities
for good, and it would
tend toward our understanding
each other
a little better than we
sometimes do. And I
CAPTAIN ECKERSLEY
think that, with the
Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company, at the relay apparatus in English-speaking
the London headquarters. Programs are frequently given in the London
people, at any rate,
studio and relayed by wire to the other stations in the chain. The purpose of
radio has a
this
great
is to allow the owner of a crystal receiver to hear strong signals from
London. The future. It apparatus in the must be
photograph is necessary to "boost" the signal
strength to overcome the resistance in the wire lines connecting the stations so.