Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-05-10
WIRELESS
OPERATOR HERE
R. W. Christy Of Washington,
D. c., to Install Equipment
on Kukui.

l
lulu This is II. w. Christy, who will
install wireless equipment on the
lighthouse tender Kuku. Christy
takes exception to some of the things
that have been written about wireless
equipment by self-rocogniZed experts
and straiEhtens out some misconcep-
| tions
The reporter who made the state
ment. Friday last, that "the wireless
installation on the Kukui is nearing
completion now" was only Few
months ahead of time. Likewise the
expert" who in Saturdays issue Of
the same sheet criticized the Kuiui'5
equipment SO very unfavorably.,
The Kukui's wireless equipment re-
poses In the storehouse. just at tho
present moment. II arrived In Homo
lulu only last week while the tender
was away on short trip. Fhc little
aerial stretched between the Kukuis
two masts Is part of receiving set
hastily installed prior TO the tenders
departure. last week. by Il. w. Chris
ty. the electrician and wireless oper-
ator.
Brings Equipment.
Mr.. Christy brought a receiving
coil small condenser and one or,
two other wireless instruments out
with him from New York. These.
together with some phosphor-bronzc
wire borrowed" from the Naval
Wireless Station form the temporary
equipment which has caused so much
comment
As matter of fact, there will pro-
baby he some delay I'm installing
the regular equipment on the Kukui
II Is necessary TO build wireless
room on the tender, and Inspector
Sahm has written to Washington for
instructions as to where this Is to
be placed. Until the location of tho
room Is settled by the Washington
authorities, the equipment will CON
tinue to lie in the stOrchOusc.
As TO kukui.
Mr.. Christy, when asked by an
Evening Bul letin reporter how
he had Jared with his temporary
equipment. expressed his opinion of
wireless on the Kukui thus:
UNLESS the Kukui's masts are
heightened. doubt If | shall ever
be able to get any good work out
Of her. As things are now. the masts
are too short and too close together
for good wireless results. We need
much more heigth. and we should
like to have more space. OF course,
the former shortening can easily
be remedied by building topmasts. I
have been given to understand that
this would he done. But unless the
Kukul be rebuilt, | shall have to be
| contented with the short distance
between the two masts. With this
present receiving set, which | install
cd merely for my own amusement,
! found II almost impossible to hear
anything This was not altogether the
fault of the apparatus but the fault
of the noise near my room. | am
situated near the engine room and,
believe me. when the Kului is un-
der way, she Is anything but a quiet
ship. However ! imagine that with
q room M on top of the house. away
from the engine room noise, and with
topmasts. ! shall he able to COmmuni-
cate with all the island stations and
the ships within reasonable distance
scarcely hope to make any new rec
Ords In wireless biography" Mr.
Christy added, with smile.
| A Veteran at Key.
Mr. Christy, who Is a Washington.
u. c. man has had great deal of
experience with wireless. He was one
Of tho first operators In the United
States Navy. After serving in the
navy, he became an operator on one
Of the finest tourist ships sailing out
| Of New York City--thc "Bermudian."
running between New York and Ber-
muda He served as operator on the
| Hamburg-Amorican liner "Sarnia,"
also, and on several other ships run
| ming out Of New York.
| Mr.. Chrlsty had charge of the Man
haitian Beach station New York,
which did some very fine wireless
| work and also had the station at Gall
lee. N. J. These two stations were
United Wireless Companys property.
| After leaving the United Wireless
| COmpany's station In the Bronx, New
York City, which afterwards became
the Continental Wireless Company's
station.
| The reporter expert was not salts
fed with knocking the Kuku's equip
| mCnt. but went on 10 make rash
| statements regarding the wireless
equipment on the ManChuria and the
| Makura.
Manchuria Work Splendid.
Work done by the ManChurias
wireless sct--which the expert called
| inferior has been surpassed only by
that of the Korea and of one of the
army transports.
The set ON the Makura, praised 50
| highly by the expert, has never COM
| municatcd at n greater distance than
| about 200 miles
The funnel of the Manchuria may
interfere theoretically with the wire
less workout II does not prevent
| the operator from communicating
with San Francisco when the Man
Churia IL threo thousand or more
miles distant from the coast.
|
| h-RlIl ETlN Ans pANu