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Updated: May 17, 2025
Half of Var's fleet was in total ruin. On the planet below, two horrible gouts of flame leaped up through the atmosphere and beyond it, while all of Kloomiria seemed to tremble as half a continent was ruined. Var stared down at the destruction, unmoving. The aide coughed, holding out another roll of paper. "Cathay is broadcasting an appeal for us to surrender without reprisals, magnificence.
As the apparatus was supplied with two steps of amplification, Hal had brought also a loud-tone horn to facilitate occasional parlor entertainment should they have leisure to listen-in to programs from various broadcasting stations within their receiving range in the course of their cruise.
"But it doesn't say anything!" she protested. "It isn't addressed to anybody, it isn't signed it doesn't tell anybody anything about anything." "It's all there, ace. You see, since the beam is moving sidewise very rapidly at that range and we're shooting at a small target, the message has to be very short or they won't get it all while the beam's on 'em it isn't as though we were broadcasting.
Strange turned quickly and went to the door. "You will wait here, Doctor," he said. "I have another caller to-night. Another one who came the same way as you!" He vanished. For a short interlude I was alone, with that peculiar radio-like apparatus before me. It was, for all the world, like a miniature control room in some small broadcasting station.
At the same instant Dane shot at the agent who had guided them there. The latter had time for a surprised grunt and his hand was at his blaster as he sagged to his knees and then relaxed on the floor. The Tech slumped across the call board as if sleep had overtaken him at his post. Rip crossed the room and snapped off the switch which opened the wire for broadcasting.
"I saw in this morning's paper that the Newark broadcasting station was going to send out an orchestra concert this afternoon, and if our set is any good we ought to hear part of it." They all adjusted their ear phones and then drew up chairs and inserted the plugs in the spring sockets designed for their reception.
But I soon moved to the French College where all the lessons were in French and Greek was only taught as a foreign language for two hours every afternoon. The broadcasting of speech and music had not started yet in that part of the world, though in 1923, a broadcasting station was built in Ankara the capital of Turkey.
A thousand miles overhead, out of reach of his sabotaged transmitter, one of those around the Moon tour bubbs, like the unfortunate Far Side, was passing. He heard the program they were broadcasting. A male voice crooned out what must be a new, popular song. He had heard so few new songs. "Serene... Found a queen... And her name is Eileen..."
Or course, this strange whistling caused considerable wonderment on the Canada side until a shrewd operator recognized the long-and-short telegraph letters, and communication was at once established important messages being transmitted by steam whistles a gigantic system of broadcasting. This was a simple way out of a sublime difficulty involving the affairs of two great peoples.
Now he heard a ship off Long Island Sound speaking for a pilot; now some shore station at Boston assigned to some ship a harbor space; and now some powerful broadcasting station sent out to all the world a warning against the rising storm. Tiring of all this, for a time he tuned his instrument to 200.
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