Kinda/sorta qrp...from our weekly paper...
METEOR SHOWER MAY DISRUPT RADIO
Aug. 10, 1926 - - Radio fans will listen in on
a celestial concert tonight. For the first time
they will be enabled to compare the music of
jazz with the music of the meteors.
Every year, on Aug. 10, about ten o'clock in
the evening, great meteoric showers occur. On
that day the earth cuts through the meteoric
swarm, resulting in fiery flashes hurtling
through the evening sky. the theory is being
advanced for the time by Dr. Hugo Gernsback,
editor of Radio News and known as the "Jules
Verne of America," that showers of this kind
must produce electrical effects in the earth's
upper atmosphere, which should be easily
picked up by a sensitive radio set.
Listeners are asked to sit by a window,
preferably with headphones, and tune in. They
should turn the dial to a position where the set
is most sensitive and avoid interfering with any
regular program. When the meteor appears they
should hear a static splash which is different
from plain nuisance static.
Was before my time but maybe there are those among us
that remember this??
End of nostalgia post ; Now back to the regularly
scheduled program.
72/73 Jim KW3U
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