Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-30
Site Not Yet Decided Upon by
the Marconi Company but It
viii Probably Be Near Koko
Head-0the Site Near the
Present Wireless Station at
kahuku
LARGEST STATION IN THE
WORLD TO BE BUILT THERE
More Than One Thousand Tons
of Structural Steel to Be Used
T in Masts, Which Will Be Sent
Here Within the Next Three
Months-Work on San Fran
cisco Station Already Under
Way

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. Requests for bids on the new 9
Z: wireless station, which will give .
g Honolulu daylight communica- !:
. tion not only with the Coast but /.
. with the, Orient, have been asked /.
9 for already, and the work on the 7.
e station viii be commenced with {:
q in a comparatively short time" !:
. Extract from statement made by {.
g Manager Balch, of the United .
q Wireless Company this morning. .
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That Honolulu will soon be IN even
closer touch with the mainland and
the rest Of the world, by means, OF
the largest wireless station even built,
was the gist OF the Information givCl
out by Manager Balch Of the United
Wireless Company this morning. This
station which viii, when completed
cover more than two, miles OF ground.
with masts more than four hundred
feet high. and weighing In all more
than a thousand tons, is TO be rushed
to completion as soon as possible.
Orders to this effect have been re-
ceiyed by cable from the Marconi
headquarters in the East, and spec.
ial resident engineer, who has been
detailed for several months studying
the construction of the great chain
vi wireless stations planned by the
British government, will be here with
In a short time to take charge of
the construction work.
The selection of a site has not yet
been made, said Mr. Balch but the
station will probably 60 UP either in
the vicinity of Koko Head, where an
option on a large tract of land has
been secured, or near the present
Kahuku Wireless station of the
United Company Either site is most
desirable declared Mr.. Balch.
There will be in reality two separ-
ate stations, one for receiving only,
which will not be equipped with
power, and the other the monster
power station for sending purposes.
This arrangement allows the station
to send two and receive two messages
from the same direction at the same
time. In other words, it will be pos
sible to send at the same moment,
two separate messages to Japan and
and two to San Francisco, and too
receive at the moment of sending two
messages from either direction. This
multiplies the work of all other sta.
tions by four-fquads it, as the ex-
perts say.
The sending station will be COM
posed of two separate legs" one for
sending TO San Francisco, where a
huge station is now being construc-
ted about sixteen miles north of the
city, on the shore of Bolinas Bay,
and the other, longer and heavier
one, for sending to the Oriental sta.
tions. There will be ten masts in
this leg, about 1000 feet apart, and
stretching total length of $500 feet.
The leg for sending to the Orient will
also have ten masts, stretching over
about 5000 feet. making twenty send
ing masts in all. r.,
The station for receiving from San
Francisco will consist of a row of
masts four hundred feet high, and
about $500 feet apart That for work
with the Orient will be five masts.
about 5000 feet apart =
Work on these masts as well as the
steam turbines and other structural
steel work and machinery is well ad-
yanced, says Mr.. Balch.
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