Unsuccessful Tests

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 50, 27 June 1930, Page 3

Unsuccessful Tests

JN recent experiments in transAtlantic broadcasts, both engineers and listeners were disappointed at ihe poor quality of reception. The general engineer of the National Broadcasting Company of America is of the Opinion that the failure was due’ to magnetic disturbances caused by unusual sunspot activity. He explained that the extreme rapidity with which such disturbances become acute makes it impossible to fortell conditions for radio reception. However, if sunspot activity is the cause, an improvement in conditions should obtain for the next five or six years, after which they will again become unfavourable. The sunspot cycle is approximately eleyen years.