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...conversation across 3,000 miles of ocean some short-wave channel between 14 and 60 metres is required. A. T. & T. announced last week that it had bought 2,500 acres of land near Manahawken, N. J. on which to erect a chain of "rhombic" or diamond-shaped antennae no less than two miles long, for transatlantic short-wave reception. The rhombic arrangement, already tried out experimentally for some years, makes possible a directional focussing effect and cuts fading, at times of ethereal turmoil, to a minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Storms & Radio | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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