RADIO ECHOES

Wairarapa Age, 11 August 1928, Page 5

RADIO ECHOES

PECULIAR SIGNALS RECORDED IN CHICAGO. POSSIBILITY OF IMPORTANT REVELATIONS. SCIENTIFIC MEN BAFFLED. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Friday, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 9. The echo of radio signals, inexplicable to scientists, but premising to reveal new knowledge cf a strata two hundred miles above the earth and aid in solving conditions affecting long range radio work, are being recorded nightly in the University of Chicago. Dr. Barton and an assistant have been photographing peculiar multiple signals between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. They believe that the atmospheric conditions of the geographical North Polcj the Magnetic Pole and the Aurora Borealis regions are responsible for the echoes. Using an oscillograph to picture low length waves coming from Germany, South America and California two physicists caught after effects to the main signals which cannot be explained by th# fact that the signals often go world, because they occur from one-hundredth to four-hundredths of a second after the main signals, which is too short for a circumterrestrial path. “The vagrant wave we are recording,” they state, “apparently take® an excursion several thousand! miles more than the direct path from the transmitter to the receiver. This path is unknown and we are classifying our data in the hope of co-ordinating them with phenomena on or above the earth’s surface, which are capable of bending or reflecting waves along paths shorter than the great circle of the earth.”—(Australian Press Association.—United Service.)