WIRELESS TO COVER THE WORLD

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3765, 26 February 1913, Page 8

WIRELESS TO COVER THE WORLD

A BIG STATION

The U.S.A. Government has placed in- commission the most powerful radio wireless station in the world. The station is the first of a chain of seven powerful stations which will bring the Navy Department into direct communication with the fleet throughout four of the seven seas. It is located on the summit o'f a hill immediately south of the Government military reservation at Fort Myer, Va., and within eye range of the western front of the Capitol in Washington. This new American naval wireless station of enormous power is in private communication, by special telephone connection, with the Navy Department in Washington, besides having physical union with the Postal and Western Union telegraph companies. ’ It is the first of its type and power erected anywhere in the world, the first 100 kilowatt station in America, and the latest word in naval radiotelegraphy, Sound proof, protected against vibration, even with noises baffled when they attempt to sneak into the operating room through the air ventilating passages, equipped with teleautograpliic apparatus, and as nearly storm-proof as man can make it," this new station at Arlington will have a radius of 3000 miles under ordinary sending conditions and more than 4000 miles in “freakish” atmosphere, which sometimes favors wireless operators. -From the Arlington station radio messages will be sent to vessels stationed bet'ond the Azores to the western shore of Europe, to Madeira, Capo Verde, the mouth of the Amazon, Panama, the Galapagos Islands off the western coast of Ecuador, and Magdalena Bay. The radius will embrace also San Francisco and the whole stretch of the California, Washington, and Oregon coasts, the lonely wastes of Upper Canada, Hudson Bay, and the southern nose of Greenland. The entire Caribbean Sea, all of the west Indies, most of Peru, all of Colombia, Venezuela, the three Guianas and the watershed of the Amazon, to say nothing of all of the United States, Mexico, and the Central American Republics will be within the range of the new station. Similar stations will bo built by the Navy Department at Panama and San'Francisco, the former bringing Washington within striking distance, under a single relay. From Honolulu another station of similar power will relay messages to almost every part of the Pacific Ocean. Guam and Samoa will have equally powerful stations through which* New Zealand, Australia, and Manila will be brought into direct radio touch with America, This string of naval wireless stations will be able to send radio messages to the heart of Thibet and the unexplored regions of Western Mongolia, with only four relays from Washington, San Francisco, Honolulu, Guam, and Manila. With a sending radius of 3000 miles under ordinary conditions of weather*, the Arlington station will speak out messages simultaneously over 28,274,400 square miles of land and sea.