Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-31

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| the terms of such permits; severe
penalties are inflicted for failure TO
observe all the rules laid down for
the government of wireless, for inter
fering with official org commercial
communication or for tending false
information. The pena)ty in England
for disclosing the contents of any In
| tercepted message is two years inn
prisonment. All my own expert
mental work is conducted under these
| licenses, one for each experiment
station, and / am bound by the
regulations as mich as any amateur
at would be}perfectly feasible to
limit amateup to a given wave,
| length, that. would not interfere with
the ordinary commercial or govern
ment instruments. Such regulations
should also provide against the send
| ing of unauthorized messages by
amateurs ito the press. The tumble.
lof messages, originating no one
knows where, and possibly pieced to-
gether by some amateur experinenter
out Of fragments of authentic mes
Il
lullA the whole world into a false
senfe Of security after. the first ant
Involvement. of the accident to the
THAnic, should never be repeated
Yet, of course, any regulations that 1t
may be feasible to adopt should be
administered with a liberal haAd and
mot made onerous or restrictive to "a
degree thtat might hamper the pro-
gress of science by sitting inyentiye
activity. !; y - -
"The whole field or wireless tel
kegraphy has been so greatly enlarged
in recent years and so greatly has its
deficiency been increased, that one
is justified today in taking the broad
Lest possible view Of its probable
future development and Importance as
IA means of communication. And it
must inevitably come at some time
under such reasonable regulation as
viii insure its most beneficial use.
Advance In Numberof Stations
/ Recent progress in wireless has
not been by any single great step for
ward, but by succession of COMPARE
lively minute advances. The one
great forward step was taken ten
iyears ago, when wireless communica-
I,tion across the Atlantic ocean was
lestablished. Since then the advances
have been mainly in the progressive
Improvement of the instruments and
THE continual increase in the number
I,of stations, both afloat and ashore.
The most modern wireless equipment
for ships, such as that on the Titanic,
now has a range, under exceptionally
| favorable conditions, of 1000 miles. In
fact, messages from ships lying in
New York harbor have been received
i'm Europe. Under normal conditions
such an equipment as the Titanic's
has range of about 400 miles, where
as the average range Of the Car
tpathia's equipment, for example, is
question of time when the standard
equipment for all important ships will
equal or exceed in range and power
that of the best and largest ships
today.
"One of the important develop
ments of the future will be the pro-
lection of private messages, within
certain limitations. OF course, it is
necessary that ships at sea shall be
able to communicate with each other
and with all shore stations freely,
at all times. Between purely COM
mercial stations, however, it is be-
coming possible to guard against the
stealing of messages by unauthorized
persons. Even if some enterprising
individual were to succeed in eluding
the vigilence of the Canadian au-
thorities and were to erect a wire
less station where the transatlantic
press messages nightly transmfssed
in almost unlimited volume for TIN
American papers could be picked up.
they would have their labors for their
pains.
at is safe. in view of recent de-
Velopments. to predict a very widely
extended use of wireless over land
in the not far distant future Al
ready the wireless is being used sue
cessfully for overland communica-
lion in East Africa, Brazil, Canada,
Italy, India and Spain. Madrid is in
communication with many other
cities in Spain by wireless. Bombay
and Calcutta are centres for extensive
/ inland wireless communication /
expect to see this overland wireless
service greatly increased in the next
! few years. with the result of greatly
reducing the cost of communication
between distant points; for the in.
stallation Of wireless systems is
vastly cheaper than the cost of erect
inc poles and striuging wires, TO say
nothing CT the cnat OF maintaining the
/ ,atie7s
GtGt Far more important than any
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