Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-30
j. 5. WILL TAKE
CONTROL OF
WIRELESS
IL : IS 4

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! WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 10
Complete federal control over all
communications across State lines or
with ships at sea will go into effect
December 10. and the Department of
Commerce and Labor viii, in a few
Gays. Issue the Regulations devised to-
carry the government supervision into
effect. The last, session of Congress
enacted a wireless telegraph law pro.
viding for this supervision. and also
sanctioned the Berlin international
radio, telegraph treaty. Under these
national and International laws the
Department Of Commerce and Labor,
TO carry them into effect, has divided
the United States into inspection dis
tricts. which win, be, opened when the
regulations go. into effect December
II.
The cities of Boston, .Sew York,
Baltimore, Savannah, New Orleans,
San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland and
Chicago will be Headquarters for the
: various inspection districts, and II.
licenses must be obtained In these dis
tricts by all operators who expect to
work stations after December IS.
Each operator must undergo examin-
elton and be licensed, whether he be
an operator of. ships at sea or work
ing in commercial stations. Operat-
0rs of stations connected with col
leges, schools, laboratories or ordi-
nary amateur plants also must obtain
official permits.
Restrictions on Stations.
Under the regulations amateur sta
lions will be restricted to a wave
length in transmlttal not exceeding
200 meters, except by special permits
sion of the Department of Commerce
and Labor, and women will be per
lnitted to take out operators licenses
as well as men, .-..---. il. -
Applications for licenses for sta
tons on ships must be sent to the de.
portment,s radio inspector at the
point of departure. Licensing of
Great Lakes vessels. through the in.
speetfon district at Cleveland, will not
begin until spring. Licenses for coast
stations will be issued by the nearest
inspection district. ...=.
! Applications for licenses by Wash
ingtonians must be addressed to the
inspection district at Baltimore. Elk.
aminations of would-be operators in
other parts of the country will be
held at the various navy yards, naval
stations, Naval Academy at Annapo-
lis, army posts, etc.
Examination Place Here.
Examinations for Westinghouse
will be conducted at the bureau of
standards from time to time, and it
will be necessary for any operators
desiring to take out license to- first
satisfactorily pass an examination as
, to fitness to use radio telegraphy.
'The Department of Commerce and
Labor" Secretary Cable. announces,
recognizes that radio communication
offers wholesome form of instruct
i've recreation for amateurs. 1t will
not, however, knowingly license an
amateur who does not recognize and
will not obey the principle of observ-
ance of the rights of others to the
uninterrupted use of apparatus for
important public and commercial pur-
poses"
Panama Station First.
| Arrangements have been made by
officials of the Navy Department to
eauip the proposed high-power radio
station on the Isthmns of Panama for
, an experimental test before finally
considering the. establishment OF
other stations provided for by. Con-
gress at its last session.
/ Congress authorized similar high
power radio stations, in addition to
the one on the Central Zone, on the
! California coast, In the Hawaiian ISL
ands, in Samoa, on the Island of Guam
and in the Philippines. It has been
! arranged to have a thorough test
made between the high power radio
| station On the Isthmus of Panama and
, the new wireless station which has
jnst been completed at Fort Myer.
! 1t is believed that much valuable
, information will be gained through
: the operation of the new line of sta
tons between this city and the Phil
, ippines.
Site Not Vet Chosen.
! The site for the Panama station has
not been finally selected, but a high
point near the center of the Canal
Xcrc, az the level of Gatun lake, is
Icing considered.
Efforts will he made to have thai
station and the one 10 be erected on
the California coast in operation By
/ the time of the opening of the Pan
ana Pacific exposition in 1915. An
IDEAL site is available ON the beach
hear san Francisco. Advantages of
that site will be it's proximity 10 the
Notifications near San Francisco, ana
its facilities for wireless communica-
uoA with the Hawaiian Islands.