The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-21
TIER 0 RADIO
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lNareofai N oW Attempting to
Invent Me thod to Elinni-
nate Static.

Pau @F. COOLEY
nerfea,s Foremost Radio
Authority.
S.I1W YORK.@J June 21.-Senato.
Ssueifelnias NIarconi. father OF WIRE
less telegraphy, has come to Amer Amer
ira 10 take al essonss1n I'm r 'aLep
VIII get from personal OBJ
ervation q e. til lei accomp lishments
ssanId mob 81 of the thousands OF
ana tours whose little antennae
DIT the# landscape of the country
ala the powerful stations which
oadcast programs night and day.
Thsif pro blems he is endeayoring
sltoSsofYe.s
nateric az says Marconi, leads
the Forld 9inEthe 5development Of the
radio felepho and the methods OF
roadcasting
Europe IS farb ehind. But it is
beginning to ickS up.
one Lond on daily has begun
pubfishingaleadin articles on radio
two or three times$a week. In tho
nnent undereSwa to license certain
stations for broad asting.
our Chelmsford works we
are bull ding SO, 900 receiving sets.
THE Ftnterestsis growing throughout
gut nowhere is it SO keen as
Marconi}rece me in his study
aboard his yacht Electra, float
Singsradio laboratory. He was most
cord fa1 had last seen him in
London
III taking this merely as a
pleasure trip 80 with little expert
Inentin gson the side" he explained.
combating Static.
Among these experiments have
been some Of the most important
ever und ertaken& to eliminate the
treat bugaboo of radio-static,
which int erferes with reception of
swireless.
Observation-Disclosures have said that we
have succeeded in eliminating thai
hitch isl know,nSas static" the SEN
atorswent n.S.1.But that. has not yet
beensdone.
ertairll 81 great advances have
been made in the reduction Of this
form Of i'd isturbance, but it has not
yet been Eliminated present.
cam only hope that it will be
eyentua1l LIDO not know.
But we have been doing work
on wayeSIengths of one or two me
tiers There#is no static on these
Lengths and the waves may be re-
fflected and directed by mirrors in
and direct
1FaVes#as short as these have
nevsrsb fused commercially. A
little Will ago they were totally
nnexplored. And now Marconi is
able to use lem for radio trans
mission over distances as great as
100 miles
Privacy form essases.
ilization of his method of re-
fleeing waves toward one point
VIII come fcloserssto bringing about
secrecys{in the transmission of ra-
messages than any present
mean
Attempts have been made many
s times toward the focusing of cleo
tric8 waves. They never succeeded
waves were too long.
But AIarconi with his short wave
sp1ish thesmira c1e.
farconi;s laboratory aboard the
Eiettra is Ia veritable wond erland.
Radio messages are received
automatically. No operator need
listen in. The signals are regis
tered ON a.sstrip Of tape by a high
speed recorder attached to the re
SaceiYlngss ct.
Tie ex-senator picked up a bit OF
IN esstape ItSwas a perfect record
II ofsa message from the high power
y station att Carnarvon. Wales. re-
corded while the yacht lay at an
chorsin the North River, New York.
was justone of many machines
on8Which Marconi is experim enting
the hope gof eventually:
ieducingEs static interference.
DeVe1opingsdi rectional transmits.
ion which would insure secrecy.
AndSmaking the range and speed
ofSradio transmission greater.
fGonyright,, The West Virginian.)