Chapter 337: Radio Tower

Yang Yuanzhao left thousands of diodes and transistors to Truss, as a real use, to be honest, the diodes and transistors of this era are too huge, think about it, during World War II, the United States comparable to the atomic bomb of large-scale projects, electronic computers, the first generation, only used more than 1,700 diodes, Yang Yuanzhao's these, if there is a real computer scientist, can even be assembled into a computer, this is more than 30 years in advance.

However, Yang Yuanzhao also knows very well that this is absolutely impossible, not to mention this era, there are still people who put forward the concept of basic computers, even if they propose, thousands of diodes and transistors get together to make perfect calculations of programming, which requires not ordinary strength, of course, Yang Yuanzhao will not do these thankless things, the electronic computer of the tube, in his eyes, has been a little outdated, he has a large number of VLSI computers in his hands, not to mention mobile phones, Even if it is an ordinary number calculator, its calculation speed is faster than that of the computer developed by the United States during World War II, which is not a generational thing.

If he had the opportunity, Yang Yuanzhao would take out something like a transistor or even a large-scale integrated circuit and hand it over to researchers in the northwest for research, but the premise was that he was absolutely controlled, or even at least Chinese, otherwise, he would rather hide these things.

A large number of new electrical components, and even some ideas that only later generations, coupled with the concept of the ionosphere, completely swept away Truss's obstacles on radio, and accelerated the process of radio, but in a sense, it delayed the appearance of radio in Baotou.

As early as a few years ago, there was a radio transmission in the world, playing a Bible, through a special code, to complete the transmission of the Bible, but that radio, the equipment is quite large, and it belongs to the first generation, based on ordinary radio transceivers, and now, with the addition of tube radio, this is definitely a completely different thing.

A transmitter, when it has not entered the electronic age, is quite huge, in this era, there are only a few researchers and giant ships are useful, there is no universal promotion of the meaning, and therefore, in this era, cable telegraph is still the best way to transmit, and even some military operations, also have a direct relationship with cable telegraph, the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, Japan twice in Asia, with the help of the limitations of cable telegraph, to listen to the opponent's military deployment, and even achieved a certain advantage, This is also one of the rudiments of information warfare.

With tubes, diodes and transistors, a certain degree of dù above, so that the miniaturization of the radio is possible, Yang Yuanzhao took out, not ordinary transistors and diodes, is among the tens of thousands of finished products, selected, the best quality, and even only in the facilities quite strict in the real room, can be made out of things, through guò his all-in-one machine a large number of copies, the quality of each is enough to guarantee, so, in the design of the radio, except for a small number of design problems, There is no problem with all others, the durability is also very strong, with the all-in-one machine, and even the detection ability in it, Yang Yuanzhao can pick out the most durable and stable electron tube from among the countless products, this, even the United States, which is powerful in science and technology, has not been solved for decades, the electronic computer during World War II needs a special engineer to replace the tube, basically an average of a few hours, the tube has to be replaced with a set, and the tube that can be used continuously is very few, This is the fundamental reason why computers are so valuable.

Led by Truss, more than 300 staff members have jointly invested in the research and development of radio, especially the fitters and machine tools with the best skills in Baotou, have been invested in the radio room, which is basically responsive, this project has a huge influence on the military and politics, and with the support of huge funds, in Baotou, in the northwest border of the Far East, began to take root gradually.

In March, everything recovers, even if the northwest wind is still blowing violently, Baotou has a lot of spring, the grasses are scrambling to poke out the buds, so that the earth rejuvenates, the winter wheat that keeps growing, all over the whole Baotou, is already the third year of planting winter wheat, after several promotions of the Baotou Agricultural Research Institute, the effect is very good, the trees are very full, the water and fertilizer can keep up with the situation, the growth is very good, maybe next, it is a bumper harvest day.

On the outskirts of Baotou, on a hill only 400 meters high, this is a rare hill around Baotou, which is purely stony, relatively solid, and towering, and looks extremely steep.

On the mountain road, a team of construction team, is difficult to transport the equipment to the mountain, accustomed to the operation of mechanization, hundreds of tons of steel, to transport to the mountain, it is not easy, fortunately on the side of the mountain is steeper, you can fix a pulley group on the top of the mountain, with the help of the horsepower of the steam engine, you can lift a large number of things to the mountain, which is equivalent to saving a lot of labor, but hundreds of tons of things, transported to the mountain, and installed, which is very difficult.

This is a full 150 meters high tower, all are made of steel bars, is the use of the German and American foreign channel, field investigation of the basic environment on the mountain, the final design, the use of independent spire structure, with the help of the drill bit out of the 30 meters deep rock formation, thick, full of one meter square steel base, and 8 more than 50 tons of reinforced concrete base, 400 tons of weight, plus the tight concrete and the mountain combined, enough to support 150 meters high, Huge steel towers of hundreds of tons.

The total altitude of the radio transmission tower is more than 1800 meters, Baotou itself is located on the plateau, its own altitude is about 1300 meters, and the height of the hill is 400 meters and the transmission tower, the relative height has reached more than 500 meters, it is also regarded as this era, a higher transmission tower, purely for radio transmission and the construction of the tower.

When Marconi tested the reception of radio signals, he used a kite to receive them, but how high the kite can fly, more than 100 meters is already very amazing, on this hill of more than 400 meters, the relative height is more than 500 meters, which is almost the highest place that humans can reach.

Of course, looking for some steep mountains can also be done, but the two points of transportation and construction are not satisfied at all, and it is too far away from Baotou, and in the end, I still found such a small hill in the suburbs of Baotou.

In itself, Truss did not make it so high, but Yang Yuanzhao's insight in later generations promoted this qiē, whether it is a TV tower or a radio station, it must be high enough, and even the tower itself is a huge receiving and transmitting antenna, which is enough to be used around Baotou.

In order to convince Truss, Yang Yuanzhao let Truss carry out a series of real actions, because there is an ionospheric storage zài, in principle, anywhere, can be guaranteed to receive, but the towering transmission tower can ensure the efficiency of direct radiation, the higher the place, the greater the range of direct coverage, this is the range that Baotou can directly cover, if the relative altitude is 100 meters, and the relative is still at 400 meters, the range is not 4 times, but more square.

This is a very simple truth, Truss just didn't think so deeply, once Yang Yuanzhao explained it to him clearly, he readily agreed, from a certain Cheng dù above, this is also a part of the application of radio, only the actual in-depth, especially really as a real application, can find so many problems.

This is a huge project, even these bases, are specially cast in the foundry, transported here, which is added to the anti-rust ingredients, enough to support the wind and rain, and located at the bottom of the highest floor, about 125 meters from the ground, there is a steel hut, can be connected to the bottom by a guò ladder, in the future, high-power radio transmission equipment, will be placed, strong long-wave signal, enough to envelop the surroundings of Baotou.

It's not that Yang Yuanzhao doesn't want to make medium waves, or microwaves and the like, the gap between this and this era is a little too big, radio communication and broadcasting, after generations of development, especially the microwave after that, it has passed through the ionosphere, and is transmitted and amplified by satellites, because of the unobstructed nature of space, so that the performance indicators are amplified a lot.

The high transmission tower, slowly built, Truss went all out to develop the radio transmitter and receiver, according to Yang Yuanzhao's requirements, the first real yàn type, can make the transmitted signal as strong as possible, at least can cover the surrounding 500 kilometers, in Yang Yuanzhao's view, the surrounding 500 kilometers, has been counted as an exclusive area, in this area, Baotou's influence will be expanded to the maximum, there is almost no problem, no matter how big, there is no need to get involved in it for the time being.

The tower, especially the tower on the peak, the difficulty of the construction is relatively large, and the progress of the construction team is very slow at the beginning, until the pulley group and the tower crane or something, all go to the top of the mountain, and after fixing, this speeds up, the tower is constantly going up at a speed of 15 meters per day, and when it reaches the top, the speed will slow down slightly, and the tower can be built within 15 days at most.

The construction of the tower is very fast, and the speed of Truss is not slowing down, with the help of electron tubes and mature concepts, with the support of the ionosphere, Truss has come up with a primary real product in less than 10 days, and in the following week, a series of modifications have been carried out, and the acceptance of the launch has been carried out 15 times, although it is only a telegraph, not compiled and converted, but the basic prototype has been made, and it is far from the day of the real release. Definitely not far off. R1152