SUNSPOTS AND RADIO
SERIOUS EFFECTS IN 1940 EFFORT TO COMBAT TROUBLE British Wireless RUGBY, Sept. 15 The Postmaster-General, Major G. C. Tryon, has revealed that, following consultations with the American telephone authorities, the Post Office is constructing a special radio receiving station near Rochester to combat the intense sunspot activity which is expected to interfere seriously with world radio communications in 1940. As the Post Office operates the whole of the long-distance international telephony services on a short wave-length, with tho exception of one long wavelength channel to America, the approaching period of sunspot activity has been viewed with grave concern. The new technique to be employed at the Rochester station, by which it is considered the adverse effects of sunspot activity can be offset to a great extent, is bound up chiefly with the use of a number of receiving aerials suitably spaced in the direction of incoming signals. It is hoped to commence the service early in 1939.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23145, 17 September 1938, Page 16
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