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Radio Transmission Round the Earth

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A THEORY which would explain the facts of long-distance radio transmission must take into account the differences between day and night transmission, long- and short-wave transmission, etc., and must connect these with a plausible assumption with regard to the constitution of the upper conducting or refracting layer, which is believed to function as the chief agency in bending the rays round the earth.

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ECKERSLEY, T. Radio Transmission Round the Earth. Nature 115, 942–943 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115942b0

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