BEAM EXPERIMENTS
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A message-, from Hartford. Connecticut. .states radio ainat'-i’i-s in Australia and United St: . will participate in Jin interesting experience iit, two o’clock on the morning of 11 1 ■ * Ist of November. Eastern standard time, when tests of transmission hcliween the. two Continents will be mad-'* on a ten met’-e wave length. The trials sponsored by the American Radio Relay League will iast one week, 'flie principal difficulty on a ten metre length is in the angle of llu* beam and LC. Cressett. of Chicago. has erected a new transmitter ;it his .summer home-. Wietino. ?»hesnehnsetts. from which (lie tests will be made. Instead of the angle beam being valued horizontally, the beam is invariable on a vertical plane. Direction is on a great circle to Australia and it is fixed metrically so n« to shoot the beam off on a long tangent nraetieally parallel to the surface of Hut earth or to any angle up to a vertical angle. The beam will ho varied constantly im an attempt to find the angle at whuli eomi-iuni'-a-tions may lie established with Australia on a regular basis.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1928, Page 6
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199BEAM EXPERIMENTS Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1928, Page 6
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