A HUMAN AERIAL

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 2, 29 July 1927, Page 10

A HUMAN AERIAL

(| The human body was used by a Westerner to tune in Lindbergh’s (the trans-Atlantic aviator) welcome in Washington. J. Gordon Reed, of Oakland, writes to KGO, Oakland, California of this novel reception as follows :- } "T wanted to hear the Lindy broadcast, but my aerial was down. Remembering the body to be a conductor of cadio energy, I took some copper wire, attached it to the antenna binding post, and placed the other end in my mouth. Then I sat on the radiator making the ground connection. ‘Fhe programme came over clear with loud-speaker volume, But when I had another party ‘take the ground wire in his hand the volume was so great I had to adiust the theostat, ‘Thus I received the programme on the Pacific Coast through KGO, otie man acting as ground and myself doing duty as old Aunt Senna," / ' '