WIRELESS IN THE ARCTIC.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20629, 19 August 1932, Page 4

WIRELESS IN THE ARCTIC.

1 BRITISH RESEARCH PABg NEW ZEALAND'S UH«| VIGIL. , || (rp.OU OUB OTO-: A party set out for the ArctU a week ago to try to solve thej||| of why wireles* signal make their headqWtew , iii(rfT°lr ggiall town in the extrt®® way, and on# of their stationed on «- The map wkfl is to vigil iff a.'ffev Brown. W bo™ y^SShIBB joined the OJnee» war he transferred Wl-M* Amalgamated Wue|s|ft during the first P art stationed at be got a eemnfl»MJ» as wireless ob*erYe?j_ A£t® r vUli was in Wellington for for some year# be feaa been^H Park radio research staUoß.jswm» poijitment to the expedition «^Oj the fact that he is sor E. V. Appleto#, who This is the first BritishGo ■ MHVgu wireless expedition to It is sponsored by tlie Scientific and Industrial J»®WHSMEp Tromso is five .degrees than the most northerly porojSSg ■land. The intention is to investigation of the upper i there, using the methods proved so successful for character in temperate l»tit«WjiSE work wireless waves, projeeieMgE ally upwards, have been ing the air levels from nxiles above the earth# wireless waves are the upper atmospheric Ql*e?nMHjH by timing the duratip* OtWOBm and by observing the cb»aei|SM| the waves on their return H> it is possible to dednee the electrification and the *WjM| it is stratified. lines have shown that the efWjgjJJi distributed chiefly in twoJWWM The lower of these lay«*"> QHHJ a height of about 60 ground, known ar the side layer, is the layer long and medium warfrie#™* causes the fading of MSfljT jjHjß cast reception. The npper laver reflects short waves used in beam the properties of tjieso JWSWJgS|| pressed by their daw ■ variations of density, out only in been found that the«e»ew«ra™|| them is restored every of the sun. During thei nigM-JJjfflM disappears. At presen i |HHH| sible to speculate cone of the solar radiation w»«y—w davtime replenishment it v. The evidence at pr»" yM i our of Professor S. that ultra-violet Hght trification of the upper tgn speed particles the ele«R* u r^Bß| Experiments at tic Circle should questions whether tfl» ture of the upper same in Arctic regions; and whether oe*ion between tM 1 KwdSr^w*!*