[2] He was first sent to South Africa to provide equipment for the Boer War,[2] then spent 2 years in Russia.
Franklin designed its antenna, and the world's first public broadcasts of high-definition television were made from this site in 1936.
[4] Franklin received the 1922 IRE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for his investigations of short wave directional transmission and reception".
Franklin received British patent 242342 in 1924 for "a pronounced directional effect from aerials of the type that are electrically long in comparison with the signal wavelength".
For 10 kW and above, 195 degrees is optimum (about 400 mV/m/kW at 1 km), or a pseudo-Franklin or a Franklin may be employed, where each of these avoids or significantly reduces this self-cancellation.