186 BELL SYSTEM TECHNICAL JOURXAL 



of this one long and several short waves we believe that ultimately the 

 service, except for the three summer months of high static, will be but 

 little interfered with by electrical weather, and that even for these 

 months the service will be operative for better than 90 per cent of the 

 time. 



You will understand, of course, that the connection to-day from 

 London will be entirely by long waves, the short waves not being ready 

 for commercial operation. The connection from America to England 

 will also in all probability be by long waves, although the short waves 

 are being held in readiness as an emergency routing. 



