The book of radio; a complete, simple explanation of radio reception and transmission, including the outstanding features of radio service to the public by private and government agencies (1922)

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326 THE BOOK OF RADIO ceiving station, the author came across a rather interest- ing bit of local color, which is perhaps peculiar to radio alone. Diversion of a Radio Engineer.—In nearly all lines of business, when business hours are over, the individual seeks something totally different as a means of relaxa- tion. While wandering around the radio station at Rocky Point, the author noticed a small aerial running from the Community House, where the engineers are quartered, to a small mast, some 150 feet away. On inquiring what this was, he was told that after watches, the engineers listen in on their own radio apparatus to the broadcasting stations and other types of radio traffic. One would think that after many hours spent on duty in the most powerful radio station of the world, the engineers would be glad to forget, at least for the time being, that such a business as radio existed. At the receiving station at Riverhead, they go to an even greater extreme. About 200 yards from the re- ceiving house, Mr. Tyrell and his associates have in- stalled a complete amateur continuous wave station. All spare moments of the various operators of the receiving station are spent at their own amateur apparatus. Naturally, with such engineers as those caring for all the trans-Atlantic receiving apparatus of the Radio Corporation, a very efficient and modern amateur sta- tion can be expected. Interchanges of messages between their station, call letters of which are 2BML and 2EH, and points as far distant as Oklahoma City, Okla., have been had, and this station also was one of the first whose signals