Wireless Aerials.
To the Editor. Dear Sir, —In your issue of Thursday, 17tfc inst., it was stated in your “Do You ' Know ” column that the length of a wireless aerial is of more importance than its height, and that if an aerial is of considerable length, the height becomes a matter of minor importance.
The writer of the above is entirely wrong as the height of the aerial wire is the first consideration. If the aerial is high you automatically get sufficient length. An easy way to prove that height is allimportant is to suspend the aerial about six to twelve feet from the ground, connect it to the set and tune in a station, say 4YA, Dunedin. Set the volume control at a medium volume and then slowly hoist the far end of the aerial to the top of a 40ft pole. The volume will increase 100 per cent.—l am, etc., R. H. LAKI£, Christchurch.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 379, 22 March 1932, Page 6
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