Radio Broadcast - 1924, January - 84 Pages, 8.2 ... - VacuumTubeEra

The Transatlantic Broadcasting Tests and What They ProveWHAT THESE TESTS PROVEover here, to receive speech and music fromINTERNATIONAL broadcastingis now noEurope.1 longer an idle If we are not contentdream, but a fact. Now weto postpone internationalvoice communication until this rebroadcastingsystem has beencan expect its rapid development. Thesedevelopments may not make itpossible for thecompleted, thesetests haveowner of an average receiver to listen-in onabsolutely proved that broadcastingstationsLondon at will. It may first be necessary toof higher power than those used inGreat Britain are essential. For Americanabandon our present system of direct broadcastingfor some form of stations of more than average power experiencedstations operating inlittle difficulty, in general, in reachingre-broadcasting. Bythis plan, the waves fromEngland, or even other countries, England, whereas thewould beEnglish stations operatingpicked up by with comparatively low power did exceedinglysensitive receivers here, amplifiedand sent out by any of the stations we nowwell to be heard in this country at all.Heretofore, the needhear.for high-power transmittershas not been feltBefore this kind of international broadcastingcan be realized, there are many tech-the fact that their stations have been designedin England, due toto serve a territory much smaller than ours.nical difficulties which must be overcome.ABut by this arrangement, it would be better apportionment of wavelengths ispossible,as Marconi necessity to overcome thean unquestionedhimself has already suggested,for the owner of a modest crystal set. (Continued on page 795)AT RADIO CENTRAL, NEW YORKW. A. Winterbottom, Traffic Manager of the Radio Corporation, looking over the tape usedon the Wheatstone transmitter in sending messages to England directly from the RADIOBROADCAST laboratory, notifying the British broadcasters of their success in reaching America