The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-14
LOCAL WIRELESS WILL
SIGNAL To JAPAN IN
A SERIES OF TESTS
The Stations All Around Pacific Rim Will
Listen for Oahu Spark i'm
Great Experiment.

While little is heard of the develop
ment of wireless telegraph science in
Japan the officials in charge of tele-
graphs and posts are quietly obtaining
first hand knowledge of its development
elsewhere and applying the latest in
ventions to the stations erected along
the japanese coast while many of the
big Japanese passenger liners are
equipped with plants which are doing
excellent service.
The wireless station at Kahuku, on
this island, which is becoming one of
the widest known plants not only in
the Pacific but in the world, owing to
its powerful equipment, has been select
ed by w. Torikata, director of tele-
graphs, who was recently in Honolulu
on his way to the Coast, to participate
in a series of experiments to start to-
morrow. Mr.. Torikata inspected the
Kahuku station under the direction of
Manager Baleh and Operate Maddams,
and his opinion of its value is best ex-
pressed in letter just received from
Mr.. Torikata, dated at San Francisco:
81 have just received letter from
orr operator Mr.. Kimura on the Tenyo
Maru, who wrote me again admiring
the good work of H u (Kahuku)
station. I have inspected the United
wireless stations as well as the Massie
station since / arrived here last month,
but l have nothing to write about my
new idea for l could not find anything
better than that / have learned in
your H u station.
Mr. Torikata also writes that he wrote
to his government, while in Honolulu.
advising his bureau of the arrangements
perfected here with Mr.. Balch for wire
less experiments between Oahu and the
Japan coast. He states that the man
ager of the United wireless company
at San Francisco was anxious to parti-
cipate in the experiments, and the Pa
cifc Coast will also have an opportunity
to take part in the signals to be flashed
across the Pacific tomorrow night. Mr..
Torikata has advanced the following
plan, although the dates have been
modified so that the experiments take
place on the 18th and not at the later
date first suggested:
Throughout the experiment, he
says, awe will use San Francisco time,
to which the Nippon Maru will adjust
her watch and tell the time to the
operators in the Hawaiian Islands and
Japan coast.
"'The stations will send as in follow
ing list, repeating some signals Gall in
Morse eode), and after the experiment
is concluded we will write to each other
naming the signals sent or received.
''The following will be the date of
sending:
''1sth S. F. time, J. o. L, Japan;
10th 5. F. time, Teishin, Japan; Goth
S. F. time, some of Pacific Coast sta
tions; 21st S. F. time, H U (Kahuku)
Oahu; 22nd S. F. time, Fl U (Kahuku)
Oahu; 23rd S. F. time, J. o. l., Japan;
oath S. F. time, Teishin, Japan.
"And l wish to send and receive
when both stations are quite dark Chat
is by nightime). If our government
writes you concerning this matter, they
will send you some signal according
with their own plans and mine. -
That the date of sending has been
changed was evidenced yesterday morn
ing when Manager Baleh received the
following message from Japan, which
was relayed bv the Chiyo Maru, due
here tomorrow from Japan:
81 o l, via Chiyo Maru to Il Z: