Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1917 — Use Wireles in Storm. [ARTICLE]

Use Wireles in Storm.

By means of about five hundred feet of wire strung around a wooden framework, some experimenters in the electrical department of Union college, Schenectady, N. Y., are said to have been able to receive messages during violent storms and determine the direction from which they come. The wireless waves are received by the wires on this frame just as they are received by antennae high in the air. They are then transmitted to tuning devices and a telephone receiver ip the usual manner. It-has been found that by turning the frame about until its axis is in line with the direction of the sending station, the signals are beard most distinctly. This directionfinding feature, it is believed, Will prove of great value in many ways.