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LONDON. Royal Meteorological Society, Mar. 20.—R. A. Watson Watt: The range of atmospherics (Report of the Committee on Atmospherics and Weather). The distances over which an atmospheric may produce disturbance of broadcast reception was discussed. The Committee organised experiments in which observers in the British Isles, Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Morocco, and Madeira recorded disturbance of broadcast talks, while the sources of the atmospherics were identified by radio positionfinding by the organisation set up by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on the advice of its Radio Research Board. Many of the sources were found to lie in regions of meteorological disturbance. Atmospherics from beyond the Azores have disturbed the reception of Daventry's signals in Paris and of London's signals in Aberdeen, and a thunderstorm at Rome disturbed reception in Spain, France, Madeira, the British Isles, and Norway. Many atmospherics are heard at distances exceeding 1800 miles from their sources, and may reach at least 45,00 miles. There is no evidence of the presence of many atmospherics with a short range of disturbing effect.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 119, 689–691 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119689b0
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