Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-09-15
Operators Enabled TO Send
Tunes by Radio photography.
Messages Can Be Sent, No Matter
What the Interference of Big and
Powerful Plants Which May
Be Near.

London.-Remarka experiments
with variety Of wireless teIegraphy
perfected by Baron Won Lepel have
| been conducted between Slough, Paris
and Brussels. They included the trans
| mission Of messages and Of the mel
0dy Of the national anthem.
In a low-lying meadow at Slough,
within sight Of Windsor castle, is a
wooden hut 1anked by tall mast and
tangle of wires. A man who used to
| De a yeoman agnaller in the royal
navy sits in that hut tapping wireless
messages to Paris. Brussels and Bruins
wick, North Germany. Occasionally,
when his instrument is not tuned ex-
actly to It's own proper pitch, he hears
something like a brass band roaring
In his ears, which means that the Brit
tsh Admiralty is sending secret code
messages to battleships cruising IN
the North sea or the Atlantic; or he
may receive a request from Paris to
tune his instrument to another note
because the great station at the top of
the Eiffel tower is drowning all the
messages In its vicinity.
The yeoman signalIer turns a han
die, depresses another piano key, and
continues undisturbed his whispered
musical conversation with Paris or
Brussels. The new system is that OF
the Anglo-German Wireless syndicate
of which young German, Baron Won
Lepel, is the moving spirit.
The claims made for it are that it
calls for much less power than the or,
binary systems of autobiography;
that it is, therefore, very cheap In
stallation, and that by applying varia
BILE musical notes to its tune it can
talk in quietness for long distances
however great be the disturbances in
the ether created by more powerful in
struments.
A message was sent TO Brussels
who replied almost at once, adding
that Paris, with which he was in wire
less touch at the moment, had a mes.
sage. Inquiries were then dispatched
across the English channel and the
north of France to Paris, producing
the response that the message had
been received and understood, but re
questing a clear course for an ex
perimentaI message lin English) re
ceived as follows:
Il am sending this message by the
Lepel system of autobiography
which may further facilitate means OF
communication between London and
Paris.
Owing to the rise in the price of
wine and general provisions Paris
restauranteurs have materially in.
creased their charges.
To-day the weather has been charm.
ing.
Great interest is being manifested
by the airmen competing in the Cir
cult de FEST"
Messages can be sent on eight notes
set to a true octave, and in case of in
terruption the operator can change his
note, and the receiver, by a few turns
Of a simple regulating screw, soon
finds the new note. The national an.
them was played on the keys at
Slough. It elected a cordial response
rom Brussels of "Vive Pentente cor
iia1e!"
Considering the shortness of the
aerial" which was only 1870 feet long,
and the small amount of power used,
which was only two kilowatts, the re-
suits were good for long distance
transmission.
Baron Won Lepel, fair-haired Ger
nan enthusiast, is 20 years old. He
served for five years as a lieutenant
| N the Ninth Lancers of Prussia. He
took to electric lighting work at 6