English: Early multichannel longwave radio receiver (right) and receiving antenna (left) constructed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company at Houlton, Maine, USA around 1927 for transatlantic radiotelephone service to Europe. This was one of the first transatlantic radio telephone links. The antenna is a Beverage antenna consisting of a pair of straight wires several miles long suspended on telephone poles, grounded through a resistor at the end, pointed at the transmitter in Europe. Several similar antennas were used in parallel. The transmitter and receiver use single sideband modulation to conserve radio spectrum; even so the system could accomodate only a few telephone circuits.

Identifier: belltelephonemag11amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
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Fig. 8. Long-wave Trans-mitting Antenna at RockyPoint, Long Island. Fig. 7. Long-wave High Power Amplifier at •Rocky Point, Long Island.

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Fig. 9. Receiving Wave Antenna at Houlton, Maine.
Fig. 12. Short-wave Transoceanic Telephone Receiver.
Fig. 13. Oscillographic Records of Short-wave Selective Fading Tests.

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Fig. 9. Receiving Wave Antennaat Houlton, Maine. Fig. 12. Short-wave TransoceanicTelephone Receiver. hi Scnt^ As Received —- ■ -Freq.- MM 1 0m u . Mi 1— K Second * Fig. 13. Oscillographic Records of Short-wave SelectiveFading Tests. TRANSOCEANIC RADIOTELEPHONY transmission unique in radio, giving a power effectiveness sev-eral times as great as the ordinary method. In the usualmethod used in broadcasting and for short-wave systems, thereis transmitted continuously a constant carrier wave whichcarries no intelligence but is necessary to permit a simple de-tecting apparatus for receiving. There are also two bands offrequencies resulting from modulation, called sidebands, onejust above the carrier frequency and one just below it. Eachof these sidebands carries the message in full. The single-sideband-carrier-eliminated method of telephone transmission,originally developed for wire carrier telephony and now ap-plied to long-wave radio, lops off one sideband and the carrierand transm

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