EXPLAINS "STATIC"
OF RADIOPHONE
Tells How Atmospheric Electricity
Affects Workings of the Receiv
ing Sets
jjuw that the "radio craze" has
sept the country, many persons with
receiving seta are bothered hy the
mysterious something that the radio
exports call "static". Just what this
atmospheric electricity is and how it
is related to the electricity in thun
der storms, are discussed by Eric R.
Miller, meteorologist, U. S. "weather
bureau. Madison.
-The average man is unaware that
there is such a thing as atmospheric
plwtricity, except when it thunders.
The work of the radio operator is in
terfered with continually by sounds of
stiapping, crackling, and grinding in
his headphones. These signal the
arrival of stray waves from more or
less distant thunderstorms.
The generation of electricity in
thunder storms has been explained by
(;. c. Simpson of the weather bureau
of India. He found by experiment
that when drops of water fall through
a vertical blast of air that the break
ing of the drops into spray is accom
janied by the production of posttive
and negative electricity and that the
irops are left with a positive charge.
A strong upward current of air is
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one of the most conspicuous features
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dent in the turbulent caulillower
shaped heads of the cumulus cloud
from which thunder storms grow. Be
sides, strong upward currents aru
necessary for the formation of hail,
which so often accompanies thunder
storms, since the freezing raindrops
and growing hail must be carried re
Peatedly to the cold that is found only
at high altitudes. In the turmoil of a
thunder storm, raindrops may be
forced through the cycle of union, di
vision, of coalescence and disruption
many times with the tor.mitim, n
each disruption of a correspondingly
Increased electrical charge.
"Hence, once started, the eleitrldtv
of a thunder storm grows to a con
siderable maximum. If this theorv is
torrec, and it seems well founded.
it must follow that the one essential
to the formation of the giant cumulus
cloud, namely the rapid uprush of
moist air. is also the one essential to
the generation of the electricity of
thunder storms. This is the reason
that lightning seldom occurs except
in connection with a cumulus cloud.
It is simply because the electrifying
process of splashing is vigorously ac
tive in this cloud and nearly absent
in all others.
"The use of a coil antenna will en
able any radio receiving outfit to lo
cate approaching thunder storms and
to forecast their time of arrival quite
accurately when within twenty or
thirty miles. The coil antenna gives
the strongest effect' for waves ap
proaching in the plane of the coil,
least along the axis of the coil. The
vertical coil must be arranged to turn
through a semi-circular horizontal arc.
In experiments at Hampton Roads.
Va., the average wave length on which
the best results were obtained, was
Shi) meters. The average intensity of
NET5RASKAN TWO
static or thunder storm days exceed
ed the average static on no thunder
storm days by 36 per cent, but the dif
ference was much greater as the
storm approached."
ENGINEERINNG COLLEGE
SENDS OUT NEWS LETTER
The eleventh annual news letter to
the graduates of the College of Eng
ineering was sent out last week to
about 1.000 former students of that
college. The letter contains a .review
of the- work of the college for the last
year and a number of items of gen
eral university interest.
Included in the letter is information
regarding registration, the new sys
tem which has proved so successful,
and the figures, the football schedule
for next fall, the plans for the mem
orial stadium, comment on engineers'
work, news relative to the annual in
spection trip, a discussion of the five
year curriculum, news of the aiiive
alumni, faculty items and other news
of interest.
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GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
Miss Louise round, of the Univer
sity of Nebraska English department,
Friday won the country club golf
championship for women when she
defeated Mrs. Ray Elliott. 5 and 4.
Miss Tound defeated Mrs. J. M. Stew
art, 7 ar 1 6, in the semi-finals. She
had previously defeated Mrs. H. E.
Gooch.
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Is some times figured cheesy.
And that's because he always makes
The hardest plays look easy.
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BEAUTY WINNER
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should adorn the cover was a decided
success. Adamson Monday gave out
the following statement in regard to
it:
"It is evident to everyone, that to
choose a girl representative of the
University of Nebraska would bo an
absolutely impossible feat. When
the idea of selecting some universitv
Kil l to adorn the cover of 'Cornhusker
Hose was suggested to me. there was
but one thing to do and that was to
make the selection through a voe off
the university students. Of course,
many of the winter students do not
receive the Summer Nebraskan and
for that fact the determining of the
mcst representative gl.-l of the uni
versity by contest was a difficult thing.
What .the outcome of such a contest
would have been had we waited until
fall, an impossible thing seemingly, is
only a matter of contemplation.
"The students of the university have
chosen Miss Hanson and her picture
shall appear on the cover. Personally,
I feel that anyone cf the many girls
who received votes would have been
satisfactory and I would have been
glad to dedicate 'Cornhusker Roso' to
any one of them, but I know that the
selection made by the students will
meet with the approval of all."
Copies of the "Cornhusker Rose"
may be secured through the Summer
N'ebraskan by any one wishing a copy.
A note enclosing thirty 'cents together
with name and address should be sent
to the Xebraskan 'in payment of a
copy of the song.
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