The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-18
GREAT WIRELESS
PLANT PLANNED
Station With Power to Trans
nit Messages to Coast
Will Be Installed.

There was a meeting yesterday
morning of the Wireless Telegraph
Company, at which it was unanimous
| ly decided by the stockholders that the
plant and station at Kahuku should
| at once be commenced. Arthur A Is
| TO make tests with view to locating
| the proper site for. the station, ami
who selected Kahuku, the site that
was originally selected by Captain
| Niblack for the Navy, but abandoned
owing to the fact that there would he
no guns there to protect it, was
chosen as superintendent of con-
struction TO take charge of the in
stallation of the plant and the erec-
ton of the station at Kahuku. When
he has put in the plant he will be gen.
eral superintendent of operation, SUI
perintending the Kahuku station and
the station at Hilo, which will be in
stalled Immediately following the COM
pletion of the Kahuku plant.
1t was determined at the meeting
that Lahaina should be increased, as
a station, in strength from less than
a kilowat to five kilowat strength, and
that the station at Nawiliwili Kauai,
should be strengthened to five kilo-
watts.
The necessary money for the inn
provement of the service is forthcom-
ing readily enough without any re-
organization of the company, and it
is the intention of the Wireless Tele-
graph Company to spare no expense
to make this the worlds center for re-
liable wireless, and as soon as i'm
provements are Forthcoming they will
be adopted by the local company
President Clinton J. Hutchins said
yesterday: IF, after we have in
stalled the 1ong-distance plant at Ka-
huku, we should find that some dis |
covery has been made whereby a bet !
ter station can be operated from a
mountain top, for example, we will |
tear down the Kahuku plant and put
up plant, according to the new
ideas, on the rnountain-top."
The Wireless Telegraph Company
will generate it's own energy at Ka-
huku, starting by putting in a twenty
horse power gasoline alternating dy-
namo. and being ready to increase
the power of the plant from ten kilo>
watts to 100 kilowats, as the situation
demands.
It was reported that the various
steamship companies would probably
eventually come in on arrangements to
get the service and Hutchins had al
ready had correspondence with the
of the Pacific Mail,
Togo Kisen, Occidental & Oriental,
Matson and American Hawaiian.
BY July Is at the latest the Ka-
luku plant will be ready, and it is
probable that it will be in operation
before that. A pericon receiver is to
De adopted, an instrument which will
accelerate and simplify
reception; with such an instrument
Honolulu can listen to the Coast sta
lions or the fleet anywhere from 1000
TO 5000 miles away.
1t is arranged that work on the
Kakuhu station shall start at once,
md the power at the start will be
such that in the daytime this station
.an send 500 miles, or at least 1000
niles under ordinary conditions at
night; which means, with favorable
conditions, that this is
and will reach the Coast and that,
With the new Oahu and Hawaii sta
ions, with Maui and Kauai stations
Hawaii Territory will
each throughout the broad Pacific
With her wireless sympathy and
strength.