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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 226688" data-attributes="member: 192438">Yes. Back then, everybody &quot;knew&quot; that electromag waves were line-of-sight only, so expecting them to travel 4000 miles was just silly!(However, prior to Newfoundland, Marconi HAD got undeniable occasional radio contact with ships at least three quarters way across the Atlantic - conditions permitting - so had &quot;fair confidence&quot; he could do it!).Regarding what one might &quot;hear&quot; after hours of listening to just static, I bow to your greater experience .......(not quite sure what you hear through a coherer detector ..... !).PS, as so often - though not necessarily always - Wikipedia has an excellent article on Tesla: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla</a> .(Hmmm ...... Wiki has a long list of Tesla sci fi links, but appears to have missed out Ray Jones' &quot;This Island Earth&quot;, where Jorgasnovara's remote controlled aeroplane - working off &quot;beamed power&quot; - seems uncannily like Tesla's earlier similar idea. This might have been missed because it's only in the novel, and not in the very different film version!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spiney, post: 226688, member: 192438"] Yes. Back then, everybody "knew" that electromag waves were line-of-sight only, so expecting them to travel 4000 miles was just silly! (However, prior to Newfoundland, Marconi HAD got undeniable occasional radio contact with ships at least three quarters way across the Atlantic - conditions permitting - so had "fair confidence" he could do it!). Regarding what one might "hear" after hours of listening to just static, I bow to your greater experience ....... (not quite sure what you hear through a coherer detector ..... !). PS, as so often - though not necessarily always - Wikipedia has an excellent article on Tesla: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla[/url] . (Hmmm ...... Wiki has a long list of Tesla sci fi links, but appears to have missed out Ray Jones' "This Island Earth", where Jorgasnovara's remote controlled aeroplane - working off "beamed power" - seems uncannily like Tesla's earlier similar idea. This might have been missed because it's only in the novel, and not in the very different film version!). [/QUOTE]

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