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Simple Two-Tube Set that Gets Distanée.
Alleged long distance records unit only. Then, instead of a 20- of reception with only one tube,johu rheostat for the deinstor, a ruch Flewelling's from Chi-6-ohm rheostat should be sub- cago to Foldbu, England, may be stitutod.
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Hoitors,
Buch a circuit is the oŋd to be described to-day. It is the circult
MARS TEST.
lucident to Science.
The world's mysteries gradual-
used by a fan in Havana, Cuba,ly are being eliminated from the who has been listening is on possibilities of radio. tho high-powered broadcasting tations in America with ease, despite the heavy static prevail ing most of the year in that
And after all have been triad and tosted, this new science will have finally grown out of its swaddling clothes and taken its pluco with the uthor stald
It is simply designed and cusy sciences of the earth. to construct. Two honeycomb The recent Mars episode is coila make the antenna induct-marely an indication of the The first the is used as initiation stage in which tho
Anco.
# stage of radio frequency science of wireless communi- smplification, and the second is cation-must still be classed. Its the detector provided with alimitatione have not yet been leed-back arrangement to the au- mapped out. It is ging given
the widest possible range o
toons.
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HOOK-ET DIAGRAM OF SMALL DISTANCE "GETTER,"
The aerial should be about 65 study, so nothing outside the feet long and about 35 feet high knowledge of science may be
with the overlooked. peruption
for best
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1924 (FEATURE SECTION).
YOUNG ANNOUNCER.
Olivia Erbslein is only 10, yet she is on the air almost every night, telling bed-time stories through the microphone at WTAS, Elgin, I. The station is owned by her father, Charles E Erbstein, famous Chicago lawyer, and It is named "Villa Olivia," after the girl. Olivia also acts as announcer at times.
amatour
With the Mars question practi-against the limitations of the' leally settled radio must show its Government
Ruinst possibilities in other scientific transmission. directions. In somo poros The specific limitation to which minds there in the obsession that they object is the ruling that this science has much to do with amateur
messagor shall be
the peculiar weather we have transmitted only to stations in had this your.
the British Isles that are actually
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It's absurd. say others. Yet to taking part in the experiments by tho amateur tho real scientist, nothing un-conducted proved is absurd. And so the transmitting.
The result
Buch strict weather changes and thoir rela tion to radio may be the subject enforcement has been placed! of sincero study,
on this provision, that amateurs
themselvon unable The bowels of the earth furnishfind another mystery for us to unraveltry long distance transmission
them. Trans-Atlantic Radio is being commandeurod to on the low wavelengths accorded do its part towarca fathoming it.
Some progress has already been mission is practically out of the of and exchange Instruquestion, made in this direction. honeyes b coils provided. How This is why the effort to listen ments have been designed, and messages even with French and over, a total length of 100 feel¦ to Mars should not has looked upon are already in use, that actually other European operators is for antenna and head in is the jus un absurdity. It was a serious discover minerals and other sub- outside of their bounds. essential to remember,
attempt in give two sciences-stances underground. Their range Feeling has begun to run so' racio and astronomy a good eltáneo to show their potential far, but development of the high that there is serious talk of a désigns may increase their pas concerted campaign which may ties. That it failed merely addesibilities until regions heretofore bring about revocation of the ob another link to the chain that tousbed by aan may be rejectionable ruling. bends cach of them.
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This isn't absurd. It is highly possible.
Radio may help solve its own the laboratory, where only those mysteries, Lan, and thore are who understand may learn of many of those. What it is, how them. The Mars experiment had it operates, its possibilities and to be undertaken more publicly promises, are still to be revealed because of its prodigious pro-to portions.
Wo shall know most of those That it seemed to have failed users only after scientists have [ostablished their cartainty. It is! merely
SUCCESS OR FAILURE..
Hettien
SIGNALS COME AND GO.
Transmitter and Five Receivers on Same Aerial.
Washington:
Five receiving sets and a transmittor have been worked successfully at the same time on board the same ship!
ono my-i a better way, for ridiculo is no! tests conducted out & U. S
The tubes for this act are both stery su far an radio is concerned.help to a now science. of the UV201-A, or the C301-A Yet to many experimentera, Lypa. For those the B battery the Mars test wasn't a failure, has a voltage of 45 volte.
but an additional proof to cs- But if a 200-tube is used forjtablish their belief that no human the detector, proper connections habitation exists on Mars. As would have to ho made to tap the tronomically, to thure men, the voltage off at 22 volts for this radio test was a success.
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This remarkable achievement was accomplished recently in
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Different wavelengths were used in transmission and in each; from of reception, although the nerial did duly for both sending! and receiving.
The instrument that made this] achievement .possible was specially constructed electron tube transmitter of 10-kilowatt power, which emits a pure wave, and a recent invention that makes multiple reception pos- sible on the same antenna.
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