"Okay, good. My mother used to use the old Imperial system and it drove me nuts every time she measured the speed of light in miles per hour instead of meters per second." He looks back down at the paper. "You get a better radio signal if you create a continuously varying current in that wire- preferably a nice smooth sine wave. You can do that easy as pie with a capacitor and an inductor, and once you've plugged in a couple of-" He stops. "Okay. You guys are using vacuum tube technology, I'm guessing? You're going to need to amplify the signal in the wire before sending the signal to your antenna and transmitting it out into the air."