El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-19
WIRELESSPLlNTS
PLENTIFUL HERE
Ell Paso Boys Have Amateur
Stations With Equipment
for Long Ranges.

When the Government inspector. who
has been ordered to inspect all wireless
stations in the southwest arrives In ~
Paso he will find numerous amateur
stations in the city. Many yyoungsterS
have rugged mp apparatus 10 send and
receive through the air.
OF the many amateur stations IN III
PasO there are three which are on a
nIane with the government stations, e&-
merits declare. These three have sur
ficient sending power to get Ions
range wave. Harvey Logan mas 1Hg a.
his home in Highland Park ROBERT
whit has another station at his nome
at the corner Of Mundy and Bryan street
and the third is the property OF VIM
teche Electrical and Chemical CLUB COM
DOsed of three bright FL PaSO pOys'
T oTt-den Wingo, Wayne Taylor and Ell
lott Chess. Their station is located az
the corner Of Chester and Crockett
streets in Government Hill ADDITION.
BOYS Make own Machinery.
Almost all of the apparatus anu r-. ~
strlIments used in the Logan and Wul1t
Stations have been made by the boys
Their stations which. are very wen
equipped, are valued at about slO eacn-
These stations are almost ldenllcaI'
Each has an aerial As feet high, a send
ing RANGE Of from As to 80 miles and
receiving range of from 500 to 100
miles, the range being dependent upon
atmospheric conditions
Best Amateur station.
is that owned by the Wintache club.
This station is in separate building In
rear of the Taylor home. In addition TO
the wireless apparatus. there is other
apparatus for chemical and electrical
P6e station. exclusive of the building,
ts worth at least $3.50. Most Of this
money the boys earned by working
during vacations.
anv wireless station in this section Of
the country. with the exception Of the
nlant of the Federal Wireless Tele-
graph company at Washington Park.
Has 90 Foot Pole.
The Wintache club has so foot
mast. There is 4 one-half X. ". trans
former for sending primary Ihls
gives a sending range OF from 50 TO
100 miles and receiving range OF from
boys are familiar with the continental
code which is the one most generally IN
use.
The boys picked up a small part Of
message a week ago. There was TOO
little OF it to give Of its contents, but
from what they were able to decipher
they are all of the opinion that It was
sent from one of the American battle
ships in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Pick Up Many Messages.
The boys have also picked up many
messages in g strange code. They were
able to record the dots and dashes, but
as none Of their books had a code to
cover it they were unable to decipher
the messages.
In addition to the complete wireless
outfit, the WintaChe club has a number
Of instruments and different required
apparatus for chemical and electrical
experiments. At present WingO, Tay-
lor and Chess are all working to per
feet several small electric furnaces with
which they propose to heat the club
rooms during the winter.
stations in Juare8 and at Fort
The signal corps at Fort Bliss also
has a complete wireless outfit includ-
ing a portable field wireless equipment
with the smaller army stations OF Lang's
minutes. During the time that the
Mexican troops were operating along
the border the Fort Bliss wireless sta
ton was in constant communication
with the smaller army stations at Lan's
ranch in New Mexico and another near
Maria.
There is a wireless mast in Juarez,
just of af Lerdo avenue. It was set
BY the Villa troops, a similar station
having been erected on the old cathe-
dral in that city.
The Federal wireless station which is
not now operating is located near
I Washington park.