. 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 . s from station to station, taking into consider-ation the transmitting powers and the types of receivingapparatus then available, indicate that only partial or oc-casional service over the longer spans could have beenexpected, and then only at low speeds. It also appearsthat each statio
. 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 . s from station to station, taking into consider-ation the transmitting powers and the types of receivingapparatus then available, indicate that only partial or oc-casional service over the longer spans could have beenexpected, and then only at low speeds. It also appearsthat each station was to handle several channels andtherefore presumably to divide its time between it? vari-ous correspondent stations. This type of service is moresuited to press and propaganda work and light trafficthan it is to the more exacting high-speed commercialrequirements. This plan was not carried far before thewar brought about its complete destruction. Our next map represents the first British Imperialschemes for radio communication, the so-called *A11-RedChain. It dates from 1913, and was the plan of theBritish ^larconi Company which submitted it to theBritish Government for approval. It was adopted, andsome work was done along the lines indicated when thewar intervened. The changes caused by the war and. The British Imperial communication scheme of 1913, the so-called All-Red Chain. This scheme was adopted and somework was done along the lines indicated when the war inter-vened. The distances were too great, how^ever, and the schemewas abandoned. 2-62 RADIO FOR EVERYBODY other causes led to its discontinuance and to rather seri-ous differences between the British Government and theMarconi Company. Afterwards the claims of the MarconiCompany were in part allowed and suitable financial com-
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