Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-16
NEW WIRELESS
STATION HERE
UNITED COMPANY LOCATES AT
CHUTES PARK
PROMOTERS CONSIDER OUTFIT
FINEST ON COAST
Tall Poles with Their CobWeb of Wires
Arouse Much interest Among
Patrons of Popular
Resort

With better aerials than ever before
the United Wireless company has pro-
cured a new location for it's Los An
geles station.
This is at Chutes park on South
Main street, where everything is in the
most perfect order, despite the fact
that the work was completed but
Tuesday of this week.
The station is a new style one and
is proving to be of great interest to
the public who patronize the park. H.
l.. Bleakney, who had charge of the
old station of the United Wireless on
the roof of the Pacific Electric build
ing at Sixth and Main streets, has
charge of the new station also.
THE Chutes station has two masts,'
remarked Mr.. Bleakney, who had
charge of the constructing of all the
apparatus located there. "The masts
are 200 feet apart and $50 feet high
each. The system we have installed
at the Chutes Is known as the
Athearn loop system and is the inven- i,
tion of a man employed by the Wire
less Telegraphy company.
Now it might be thought that since
we are on the ground and hence much
lower down than when on top of the
Pacific Electric building that our wire
less would not be so good as formerly.
New Location Better Than Old
"On the contrary, we find this pres
ent location much better suited to our
needs and we are more than pleased
with the change. Besides, there were
many reasons why the former site of
our station was not altogether desir-
able, and that not merely from a scien-
tifc viewpoint"
This we consider the finest wireless
station on the coast" remarked How
ard H. Stowe, manager of the Los An
geles office of the United Wireless COM
pany, yesterday; land we invite the
public to come in and inspect the plant
we have established at Chutes park.
1--WE will have a commercial office on
the street, while, as you see, this sta
tion itself is inside the park, between
the two poles. This is a demonstration
station and we have it fitted up COM
pletely.
"It was quite puzzle rigging up
those two poles with wires so as to
make the aerials," went on H. l..
Bleakney, land we did it by laying the
| poles on a baseball diamond near by
and then stretching the wires the re-
quired distance and arranging the two
squares or aerials. We then raised the
| poles by block and tackle and thus
| PuAlCu tiC POICS 1iiNO POoAbAOhs
Lose but a Day Moving
"By means of temporary aeriaIs, with
which we worked meantime, we were
enabled to arrange matters so that we
were out of commission but one day.
This Athearn loop system makes the
most sensitive aerial known in all the
world. The messages we receive are
much clearer than those we got when
located on top of the Pacific Electric
building
This fact was proven when Bleakney
intercepted message from the u. S.
S. Kansas at San Diego bay, the sound
of the clicking message being as clear
as could be desired Operator Bleak
ney also got in touch with the flagship
Connecticut and was asked by her
operator to help him tune his instru-
ments.
But that's easy-to get them at San
Diego" remarked Bleakney, as he sent
another message crashing out toward
the bay the five short, then long, short
and long dashes calling up "P X" or
San Diego.
"The navy uses the Continental code
at present" explained the operator,
"but in time of war they have a Sc
cret code known only to the service
Plan Another Station
| General Manager G. G. Galbraith of
| the United Wireless company left Los
Angeles for New York city, his head
quarters, recently, having paid the local
office business visit. Manager Gal
braith is in charge of the marine work
of the United Wireless and some time
ago fitted up a tug with wireless ap-
paratus for the New York Herald for
use during the cruise of the New York
Yacht club.
I'VE plan establishing wireless sta
tion at Port Hartford soon," remarked
Howard H. Stowe yesterday "This is
to be a commercial station and is to be
built on account of our equipments on
board numerous oil vessels
"The proximity of the lions cage to
our present station might cause us
difficulty in catching messages when
those vigorous animals commence to
roar" remarked Operator Bleakney,
"but we will hope for the best
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