Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-01-25

chine. Soon an answer came back
from New Orleans. u read.
you come in as strong as horse
radish-ha' How much power are
you using? am using four kilo-
watts
Then Keplinger an amateur oper-
Btor az Kansas city Kan, was heard
flashing 10 McCreury. the Kunsns
city. Mo. operator:
81 am out OF tune now Fort Lcav-
euworth is working with New Orleans
and J don't want 10 interfere-so viii
throw my circuit out of tune"
The corporal changed the tuning
and heard a vessel OF the western
coast of Central America asking the
New Orleans operator y there were
any orders. The New Orleans man
answered no and the operator on tho
vessel flashed IAN right Good
night"
The corporal then spun the tuning
dial around and soon caught a flash
from Keplngcr az Kansas city. Kan,
who was calling for Fort LSaven-
worth. Kepinwer said that New or
leans wanted tO TALK with the For;
Leavenworth operator. So the cor
poral spun the dial around until the
wires caught the tuning 81 the ether
waves flashed from New Orleans.
Lowe made date To call the New
Orleans man 90 1890 each night dur
ing the week. The New Orleans man
had trouble IN catching Loves flash
because. hc explained hy wireless. the
Tampa, Fla, man was interfering
THE Tampa man Is sending out
ether waves OF the same length as
the station here Lieutenant Nau-
borgne explained. You see the New
Orleans operator has his instrument
tuned so thai he can catch the ether
waves We are sending. n any other
station sends the same length wave
they also can De heard.
The tuning was changed aud the
corporal caught the Marconi station
at cape Cod flashing 20 the Marcoul
vessels:
ITO all ships fitted with Mnrconi
apparatus ana subscribing Co Marcoui
press service. The New York Times
says that the note Of the United
states government has had the ox-
pected effect. TIE latest cuban In
cident Is all hut closed"
The Key West navy yard, talking
with vessel Ia tho Atlantic. broke
Ia and tho Marc0p press stories were
heard only az intervals.
a flash was caught in the evening
from the Colon, Panama. station. "a
was flashing "a the steamer Panama
of the Pncifie coast Very indistnct-
ly thu Mare Island navy yard. near
san Francisco. could be- heard Tho
ambition OF Lieutenant MBuburgne ls
10 flash message 10 Mare Island aud
get an answer, This station often
catches the Mare Island flashes but
Il has never been able 10 got the Mare
Island navy yard 60 hear ia flashes.
The three wireless stations at Fort
Riley. Fort Leuvenworth and Fort
Omaha have practically the mmo ap-
paratus. They are large stations CONF
pared 10 tho few commercial ones IN
this section but are small compared
TO the navy stations along the Two
coasts, n the proposed relay stations
are built by the government between
New York ana san Francisco these
three stations viii Doe the principal
ones on the route The other four
stations proposed are Fort sheridan,
near Chicago; indianapolis. Denver
and salt Lake city
The greatest utility of the wireless
telegraph viii he iu time OF war. OF
ficers here believe. In Keeping touch
with the cavalry which generally ls
in advance % the army Al Fort
Lravenworth there are wireless field
sets that can be unlOuded set up aud
"a message flashed from them In three
minutes. The appurtenances ol one
set are placed ON the backs OF four
mules. The approximate distance that
these sets can flash "a message Us nf-
teen miles. about the distance cave
airy dotour keeps ahead OF the army.
n is Impossible 20 string telegraph
wires in such short notice aud hy us
ing wireless Tho army can always
Keep .n touch with the advance cave
airy screen,
A new SET of field apparatus ~ now
on the way 10 Fort Leaveuwortn, IL
is stronger and can flash messages all
most twice the distance OF the o'd
set, bat is no more bulky