The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-30
FEDERAL WIRELESS
STATIONHERE GETS
5000 mile TALK
Operators Hear Telefunken At
Nauen (Berlin) Sending Mes
sages to Tuckertoh Nj.
HEEIA LISTENS IN r.. x
WITHOUT DIFFICULTY
Chief Operator and Two Men
Take 1870 Words Easily and y
.H.< Continuously ~ p.
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the Federal Wireless station at Heeia
at noon yesterday heard the Telefunken
station at Nauen, near Berlin, sending
private dispatches to the Telefunken
station at Tuckerton, New Jersey.
This is believed to break records for
radio communication. It'was not freak
work; rs operators know freak work
The men at Heeia listened in - as long
as they wished and there was no break
because of interference by static cleo
tricity. ~
Announcement of the remarkable
work was made yesterday afternoon by
W. Y. Motley, manager of the Fedora
Office, w., .,.. .,fsasfs
This is the third important advance
in wireless transmission that Honolulu
has Witnessed this year. FL. @-rsli
q On July % the Mareoni station here
relayed messages between Toxic and
New York, thus closing the gap, Of 4l00
miles between Hawaii and Japan, the
longest in the world, commercially
speaking. % ..-t
Several Important Tests -.ET.-s
During the last three months expert
ments with the wireless telephony Of
the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company were held here. Washington
and Paris were heard talking. "a. ~
Tuckerton has been heard severa
times, and Heeia did hear another Ger
man Telefunken station near Berlin twC
months ago, but it was for few min
utes only, and, as it was regarded a.
being freak work, nothing was said of il
Yesterday was entirely different and
so conclusive that it was made public
During a lull,. when there was nc
transmission to San Francisco, II. l.
ROdman, chief operator at Heeia, "list
ened i'm at noon yesterday. He tuned
the, instrument by turning the dial Ia
different kilowatt- powers, and, when
he struck the sixty kiiowatt strength
which tuned Heeia with Nauen, ht
heard the dispatches from the faraway
station. W. ~ ~
Mr.. Rodman copied the dispatches
for several minutes, and then, to verify
his work, summoned l.. G. Butler, radio
grapher, and had him continue 1t, while
he called Mr.. Motley here and told
him of the record. The two men took
in all about $50 words, over q period
of about forty FIVE minutes, and then
quit voluntarily. There was no inter
ference whatever, Mr.. Motley said, and
every letter was distinct.
Telefunken Different System ..
The Telefunken is not exactly the
same system as the POulsen, used BY
the Federal, but both are are systems
aud recently the Nauen station installed
a new, Poulsen are, which made the
work possible.
1t may have been that the Nauer
station could have been heard at Other
times before, but Heeia did not hap
pen to "hsten in" at the right time
az it did yesterday.
Conditions for the long transmission
were favorable on the Atlantic because
of winter weather. Evidently there was
little static to hinder Heeia hearinl
the German station, but, as Mr.. Motley
said on another day the clouds and
winds over sea or land might be sucf
at messages would come in a very
fragmentary condition, although de
vices recently installed by the company
protect against static to great de
July and August last year, but, with
the new device in use, there was littlI
during those months this year.
Transmission of messages between
Honolulu and Berlin is POSSIBLE now
but not commercially probable. Ar
rahgements would have to be made be
tween the Federa6and Telefunken com
panies. -F..
Real Meaning Of Result
The real meaning of yesterday 3 achi
evement is not that communication
may be opened between the Islands AM
Europe, if need he but that such pro
nounced step has been made in wire
less telegraphy! 1t is considered {
movement forward for the whole worll
of radio work. In 1914, for compari
son, the longest transmission attempteC
was between Virginia and Paris for tn,
determination of longitude. Yesterday I
hearing was not PREDETERMINED, but il il
not the less remarkable because Of that
probably il is the more remarkable.
The messages being sent from NaueI
to Tukerton were for individuals il
New York and Washington, and the,
will not be made public, although tn
copies made here will be sent to thu
Federal Office at San Francisco for com
parison with the originals so that tn
receipt of the dispatches may be prov
ed. Some of the dispatches were TO
German officials at Washington, prob
ably one being Ambassador BerDstOrff
The Nauen Station Signed go. II. L.
1t was eleven twenty five clock las
night in Berlin when il was noon il
Honolulu. II was fyefOrty o'clocI
yesterday afternoon in New York, s,
that the wireless waves passed over tn
Atlantic duriugthe evening,