The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-07

above, the San Francisco Call of Janu-
airy 30 contains the following article
on the wireless telephone lately ex-
plotted in that city
"Hello-is this Honolulu-how are
you? This is San Francisco" Some
such greeting over the broad Pacific
by wireless telephone will be INDUCED
in before 1915 if the experiments now
being conducted by Lieutenant e. II.
Dodd, U. S. ~, at Mare island CON
tinue to be as successful as they have
been in the last two weeks.
If the navy wireless department
consented, you could soon go to the
wireless phone on the roof of the Fair
mont hotel and converse with a friend
at Mare island in ordinary tones
! across the waves of quivering ether.
You would need no telephone book,
no wires and no central Just go to
the phone, say Hello, Mare island, ="
and talk
Lieutenant Dodd, who is in charge
of all wireless stations on the Pacific
coast, has been making tests this
month with a wireless instrument
that promises to revolutionize the en-
tire sphere of long distance talking
Transcontinental and oceanic CONVEX
sation are considered practical posi-
bilities of the invention, which is an
output of California genus.
Cape Blanco, 400 miles by airline
up the coast, in Oregon, has heard a
man talking through the Mare island
wireless phone. The Farallones com
planned that Mare island talked too
loud, the operator declaring that he
not only heard the speaker at the
phone, but also the voices of others
in the sending room Thus far the
telephone has been installed only at
the naval station and on the Fairmout
roof, but any wireless telegraph sta
ton can receive the telephone mes
sages without special equipment. Tue
Fairmont phone has been heard miles
at sea by government vessels and
liners, and many wireless operators
have been mystified by strange voices
that seemed to come from nowhere.
Lieutenant Dodd will recommend to
the navy department at Washington
that seven wireless phones be install
ed on this coast to continue his ex-
periments. Two will be installed IN
cruisers and five at wireless stations
The stations which he will suggest
are Goat island, Mare Island, the Fa
rallon islands, Table bluff and Point
Arguello.
The attention of the government
was first called to the invention when
experiments were being made with 1t
al the aviation meet at Tanforan. The
telephone rights and patents are con
trolled by the National Wireless Tele.
phone and Telegraph company, with
offices in the Mills building. L. seiden
berg and George NJ. Davis are the at
torneys.
When the private demonstrations
were being made Lieutenant Dodd be
came interested. After the phone was
in working order at the Fairmont the
navy officer asked for demonstration
a month ago. The wireless phone
operator talked to the, wireless tele
graph operator at Mare island and
was plainly heard. A peculiar feature
of the new phone is that any wireless
telegraph station can listen in" tC
the phone conversation, but can not
of course, talk back. Lieutenant Dodd
caused phone to be installed at Mare
island and "talkfest" was easily in
dulged in between this city and the
naval station.
The Mare Island operator then test
ed the distance powers of the instru
ment Government regulations re
quire a wireless conversation of TWEEN
ty miles to continue successfully hal
an hour This requirement was ex
ceeded many times The wireless
voice was heard fifty-two miles ava!
at the Farallones. Table Bluff, IN
miles distant, in Humboldt county
responded by wireless telegraph Il
the weird call. Point Arquelia, 26
miles south, and Point Iona, off Sal
Diego, heard the operator talking a
Mare island. Ships 500 miles at Sc
have been startled by the unknown
voice out of the wilderness of air
Satisfied with the tests, Lieutenan
Dodd asked that he would recommen
at once the installation Of additions
phones for further long distance eN
periments.
what will become of the telephon
- girl and how can you prevent ever
other wireless phone operator fror