Show will soon solve radio mysteries only question of time until bugaboos Buga boos will disappear expert asserts greenleaf IV pickard noted radio engineer bel believes ices that it only will be a question of time before scientists will penen penetrate ate the mysteries surrounding r radio reception according to his statements scientists are almost convinced that there Is slight connection between weather and radio reception pickard also thinks it would be possible to counteract such stich bugaboos buga boos us s adang fading and static in the near fu future ture one of the outstanding problems today Is the he nature and nd tile the cause of those atmospheric changes which produce such diversified effects as weather magnetic storms and disturbances of radio reception says doctor rickard the problem Is meteorological it if this earth had no atmosphere there could be no weather on an airless planet there could be no long distance communication at broadcasting and frequencies and I 1 think mag neti clans will agree that the phenomena of terrestrial magnetism would be altered if atmosphere were removed sun affects atmosphere the only known important force which acts upon the atmosphere lie he continued Is the complex radiation and emission from the variable star which we call tile the sun changes in this force are caused in two ways first by the movement of the earth with respect to tile sun and second by actual variations in solar rel relation atlon it if the sun maintained a constant radiation we should have only to consider the eart earths lis rotation on its axis aids which gives us night and day and its movements in an orbit around the sun which by the changing angle of the solar rays oves gives us tile the seasons it if these movements were the only factors involved weather terrestrial magnetism and radio reception would follow the calendar to a far greater extent than our measuring instruments indicate but in the scheme of things is as they are we lind find that weather does not go according to the calendar nor does radio reception the visual evidence of suo sun spots faculak and tells us ua that the sun Is periodically disturbed and measurements of the tight light and heat beat received by the earth have shown that tills this varies in general correspondence with the visible changes on oil the suns disk dish through the work of 0 abbott and clayton definite relations have been established between solar changes and weather which already have been applied to weather forcha ting less definite today Is our knowledge of tile the short wave and corpuscular radiation from the sun which causes ionization and electrical currents in the atmosphere and even chemical changes our only oaly direct indices of these radiations aie are such things as terrestrial magnetism atmospheric electricity and radio reception although over lone periods they are highly related to sun spots and other visible isible changes of the suns stills surface and as radio research lias has not yet become a pure science 0 o e do not have such systematic records to study as those gathered through years wars of astronomical trono mical and aad ma magnetic guetle observatories receiving conditions it Is perhaps unlikely that any high correlation between reception and w neather anther elements will be b found solar disturbances anil and magnetic storms are worldwide world wide events whereas weather neather Is rather a local matter analyses of weather elements over the whole surface of the earth indicate that there are areas of PO positive active correlation with sun spots and also areas of negative correlation relation mr although I 1 have not yet collected and analyzed reception from any such collection of recell receiving ng points as would fairly represent the earth as a whole I 1 haie hae found a had night for reception in nemon yew ton center la Is in gren cral it 11 bad night anywhere in the united states and I 1 have also found that european reception of distant broadcasting reception agrees well with my own measurements there Is some basis for the ac that reception Is principally affected by corpuscular radiation from the sun perhaps in the form of alpha particles maunder has found that ma magnetic guetle disturbances seem to arise from restricted solar areas not necessarily including sun spots and to go out in definite directions or rather shafts of several degrees diameter which rotate with the sun when such a shaft strikes the earth a magnetic storm arises such lines of influence are not SIa under thinks necessarily radial but may flow in coronal stream lines I 1 find that in general reception Is most affected when a spot or a group of spots Is near the center of the solar disk that Is when they are roost nearly dearly facing the earth although there are exceptions but the secrets of universe beld rather to observation than pure speculation concluded doctor pickard when we have sufficiency of this right rl lit kind of data we can frame explanations |