Radio Broadcast (Nov 1923-Apr 1924)

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The March of Radio 279 THE FIRST HARMONICA BAND TO GO ON THE AIR Organized in Junior High School No. 61, New York City. Harmonica bands are being organized throughout the country as a result of the successful venture undertaken at this school relays may be operated, by the help of suitably disposed triodes, by the minute currents picked up from a radio station thousands of miles away, and this was what was done on the occasion we have in mind. A telegraphic "dot," sent out from the Radio Corporation's "Radio Central" on Long Island, was picked up by a receiving station in Poland, over four thousand miles away. Suitably amplified and controlled, this dot put the transmitting station at Warsaw into operation, the American station having in the meantime ceased radiating. The dot thus sent out from Warsaw was received in America and here used to put our station back on the air for another dot, the operator in America not touching his sending key after sending the first dot. The dot from this side of the Atlantic then began its travel to Poland and on arriving there carried out the same operation as the first one, and thus the dot, started in America by the operator pressing his sending key for an instant, was tossed back and forth from America to Europe several hundred times. Except for disturbing influences, such a game of radio baseball might be kept up indefinitely. This experiment opens an interesting method for checking messages to the engineer responsible for getting traffic through. He could arrange that the Warsaw station be controlled by the message received there from New York, the operator in New York, tuning to the wavelength of the Warsaw transmitting station, can listen to the message as received in Poland. To one gifted with any imagination, such a test opens up all sorts of possibilities. The physicist sees how he may perform a wonder