. Radio for everybody; being a popular guide to practical radio-phone reception and transmission and to the dot-and-dash reception and transmission of the radio telegraph, for the layman who wants to apply radio for his pleasure and profit without going into the special theories and the intricacies of the art . ^ ^v /. i /=... ■ • The French communication scheme. The French stations areevidently intended to divide their time between a number ofterminal stations and the spans are extremely long. How-ever, work is progressing on several large stations for thisworld-wide scheme. 264 RADIO FOR EVE
. Radio for everybody; being a popular guide to practical radio-phone reception and transmission and to the dot-and-dash reception and transmission of the radio telegraph, for the layman who wants to apply radio for his pleasure and profit without going into the special theories and the intricacies of the art . ^ ^v /. i /=... ■ • The French communication scheme. The French stations areevidently intended to divide their time between a number ofterminal stations and the spans are extremely long. How-ever, work is progressing on several large stations for thisworld-wide scheme. 264 RADIO FOR EVERYBODY nearly as many more channels of communication to thesystem as those already shown. In the second place, theplan shown is preeminently a commercial one, both in theplacing of the terminal stations and in the practicallyexclusive use of each American station for a singlechannel. This latter feature permits the speedy handlingof large volumes of traffic and avoids the troul)lesomedelays which result when the time of a transmitting sta-tion is excessively chopped up or divided between toomany receiving stations. The system is one of moderateand long spans, this being dictated to some extent by the. Our American scheme for world-wide radio communication. Every station sliown in this map is either in operation or under construction, and by far the greater portion of the stations are those already in operation. geographical location of the United States, its particularcommunication, needs, and the absence of American po-sessions at certain points. The needs of the United States,considering these circumstances, have very greatly to the technical improvement of radio communication,and have led to the satisfactory solutions of the problemsof long-distance communication. The case is an inter-esting illustration of the stimulating and helpful influenceof natural obstacles. It has long been known that traffic from one country toanother is by no means evenly distribut
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