Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony
Forfatter: Alfred P. Morgan
År: 1917
Forlag: The Norman W. Henley Publishing Company
Sted: New York
Udgave: Third Edition, Fully Illustrated
Sider: 33
UDK: 621.396.1 Mor
A practical Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, giving Complete and Detailed Explanations of the Theory and Practice of Modern Radio Apparatus and its Present Day Applications, together with a chapter on the possibilities of its Future Development
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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
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Locality is another factor which usually receives a fair
share of attention in selecting the site. Certain sections of
the country, for seemingly no apparent reason, are very
hard to transmit messages, either to or from. Wireless
stations located on the Pacific Coast, for instance, are more
efficient than those situated along the Atlantic seaboard,
Fig. 13.—Lightning discharge near Montclair, N. J.
while those in the tropical regions are only able to send
short distances in comparison to those farther north or
south. Messages seem to travel better in the direction of
the lines of longitude than along the lines of latitude.
Static,” that “bugbear” of the wireless operator, is very
much more in evidence in the eastern parts of the United
States and in South America than it is on the western
coast of the country. If any one should ask a wireless
operator what “static” is, he would probably reply, “a nui-