Word: yakutsk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Courier Wagner's longest tour of duty was 9½ months on Copper Tycoon Daniel Cowan Jackling's yacht. His most capricious clients are Englishmen. One hired him for a trip to the world's coldest spot. He picked Yakutsk, Siberia. From a U. S. millionaire with a Napoleonic complex came his goofiest assignment: a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. They started in Corsica, wound up six months later on Elba...
...From Yakutsk, Siberia, his CQ (calling all stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last...