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...bowl-shaped antenna which beams the outgoing radio pulses, catches the echo...
Navigational radio . . . is usually equipped with a shielded loop-type antenna to cope with just such static...
...Caldwell went out into the snowstorm, began to tinker with the television antenna. He made a discovery which so electrified him that last week he announced it in a press release: ELECTRIFIED SNOW FALLS IN CONNECTICUT...
...shapes and patterns have been thoroughly catalogued, have had little fundamental study; nobody knows, for example, exactly where & how they are formed. Dr. Caldwell's big news was that apparently, under certain conditions, snowflakes carry strong electrical charges. He discovered that the flakes were charged by covering his antenna; when he did, the static promptly stopped...
Sterling and his technicians from the Department of Commerce had the peacetime experience of tracking down radio-using rum runners, smugglers, gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...