A HUMAN AERIAL

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 11

A HUMAN AERIAL

un: } TUNING IN Q¥A IN VICTORIA. A correspondent wrjfes from Victoria: Ihe musica] items were perfect. I tuned in on a loud speaker with a neutrodyne set, and ¢s the yolume was so great I switched from the outside aerial on to the tape round the room. The reception was still so good that I disconnected all aerials and tried to bring you in off my own body by simply placing my hand on the aerial post of the set. Doubtless vou will be interested to learn that the volume from the loud speaker completely filled my dining room (20ft. by 18ft.), and there was no aerial other than my body. I have often brought in 8L0 in this manner (and also off the little terrier’s foot), but I would not have believed that a station as far away as yours could possibly be heard distinctly under sugh conditions. You came through s stronely as 8L0, which is only some 180 miles away, and we did not suffer from the fading experienced from 3L0.