Broadcast Prediction

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 36, 22 March 1929, Page 3

Broadcast Prediction

Question of Wavelengths R. Hugo Gernsback, editor of the "Radio News," New York, states: "It looks very much as if, in a few years, broadcast stations are likely to abandon their present wavelengths, and there will then be a general exodus down into the shortwave bands. For one thing, on the shorter waves, it will be easier to take care of more broadcasters without cramping them; secondly, in certain regions of the short wave band, there is less annoying static than in the longer-wave bands. ' "And, the more shortwave receivers come into use, the more will be known about this phase of the art, and the better it will be fox the industry and the public. It is a good thing that the progress from long to shortwaves is slow and orderly for, if this were not the case, 90 per cent. of the present-day radio sets would become at once obsolete. Yet there seems to be no danger of this, as the transition will be quite gradual, and will extend over a period of many years."