telephony will be greatly hindered."

Professor W.H. Eccles wrote:

"Improvements and invention must be stimulated to the
utmost. It is not impossible to devise laws to impose
restrictions upon the emission of wireless waves as will
preclude interference with the public radio service of the
future (R.F.I. & T.V.I.?!!) and yet allow liberal
opportunities for the experimental study of wireless
telegraphy."

NOTE. The above passages are taken from WORLD AT THEIR FINGERTIPS
by John Clarricoats, O.B.E., G6CL, published by the R.S.G.B. in 1968.

CHAPTER FOUR

THE 1921 TRANSATLANTIC TESTS

Most commercial experimental transmissions in wireless telegraphy
before World War I were carried out on the "long" wavelengths, though
they were not called that at the time. Transmissions by amateurs in
the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. on the other hand were made around
200 metres (1.5MHz). In the U.S.A. amateurs were permitted to use a
D.C.input of 1,000 watts to the anode of the final stage of their
transmitters. In the U.K. the maximum power allowed was 10 watts and
the combined height and length of the transmitting aerial was not to
exceed 100 feet. So when the first attempt to span the Atlantic was
made in February of 1921 it was natural that the American stations
should do the transmitting and the Europeans the listening.

About 25 U.S. amateur stations participated in the tests, which
took place early in the morning on the 2nd, 4th and 6th of February
1921. Although about 200 European stations had indicated their
intention to listen only 30 actually submitted logs. And not a single
one of them was able to report hearing anything that could be
attributed to the American transmissions.

The then Editor of QST wrote: "We have tested most of the circuits
used by the Britishers and find them one and all decidedly inferior to
our standard American regenerative circuit using variometer tuning in
secondary and tertiary circuits. We would bet our new Spring hat that
if a good U.S. amateur with such a set and an Armstrong
superheterodyne could be sent to England, reception of the U.S.
transmissions would straightaway become commonplace." Strong language.

In September of the same year it was announced that a prominent
U.S. amateur Paul Godley 2ZE would be going to Europe to take