Distortion?

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 41, 24 April 1930, Page 32

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Me. MORRISON has misquoted parts of my last communication. He says: "He mentions the reason our ham phone is not reported in Alaska." I think Mr. Morrison will find I mentioned a "probable" reason. Many reasons could be presented, an important one being the xeasonal difference between transmitter and receiver locations. Ey idently My. Morrison has formed an opinion with regard to the possibilities and limits of radio, as he says, in reference to my report on ZLIBG’s phone being heard in Siberia: "When one begins to think, it reads like a tall one, and seems impossible." I thought Mr. Morrison was too experienced a listenr to say such a thing would "seem impossi:)le." The report received by 2LIBG was not from a ham, but was issued from ra‘lio station ROA8, Radio Laboratory, University, Vladivostok. I have seen tie report, as have many other hams, so can assure Mr. Morrison that it is not so.-"Ham." A Mistaken Call-Sign. N several recent issues of the "Radio Record" there have been reports from Mr. A. P. Morrison concerning his logging of W7AMP, of Alaska, on the 80-metre ’phone band. Mr. Morrison is mistaken in the address of W7AMP, as it is Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., and not Sitka, Alaska, as he states. ZL2BZ was in communication with him one evening recently and his correct address was ascertained then. In any case, Alaskan amateurs have a call be-" ginning with K7, not W7. My log of shortwave ’phone stations is now in the vicinity of the 500 mark, all identified, my best D.X. on 80-metre ’phone being Canada.-W A. W. Stevens (Hawera). =