Radio broadcast .. (1922-30)

What We Are Doing With Broadcasting 735 any other organization has ever done in the world. We were trying to receive signals from America! We tried to pick up the various hundred meter stations, and occasionally a reply did come through, and occasionally we did have a sort of guessing competition as to whether it was a brass band or a piano. We did broadcast this, and it made a tremendous sensation in England; and on one particular and historic occasion signals from East Pittsburgh were received in England rebroadcast, and sent to South Africa, a distance of nine thousand miles! We do feel that the future of broadcasting must be intimately connected with the strengthening of friendly relations between the continents thus bound together by sound. And what could be more ideal than that America and England should be linked together by this mighty force, inasmuch as they are both English-speaking people, and they will probably, after a little practice, be able to understand one another. There is no doubt, however, in the minds of engineers that there is only one thing to do if we are to link up the two countries, and that is purely on the engineering side. THE CONTROL ROOM OF THE BELFAST STATION Call letters 2 BE, one of the newest of the British Broadcasting Company chain It's an amazingly long way across the Atlantic. I have just crossed it. And it seems to me that to make that journey in -rfihr Part of a second will take a great deal of push behind the traveler. And one thing we must concentrate on is the question of having high-power stations to link up the two continents. Of that there can be no possible doubt. We are absolutely ignorant of transmissions at long distances at night. But it seems to me that inasmuch as the amateurs of both countries have spoken to each other with about two watts, by c. w., as reported in our press, we feel that we can deal with 150 up to 200 watts, and it might be possible to get communication between the two countries; and if we did, it would stimulate a great interest on both sides of the water. If we could be certain on occasion of hearing some of your most interesting pronouncements, and you could listen to us drawling away, we would find that radio really had tremendous possibilities for good, and it would tend toward our understanding each other a little better than we sometimes do. And I think that, with the English-speaking people, at any rate, radio has a great future. It must be CAPTAIN ECKERSLEY Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company, at the relay apparatus in the London headquarters. Programs are frequently given in the London studio and relayed by wire to the other stations in the chain. The purpose of this is to allow the owner of a crystal receiver to hear strong signals from London. The apparatus in the photograph is necessary to "boost" the signal strength to overcome the resistance in the wire lines connecting the stations so.