The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-24

receiving stations in Brattleboro and
all are sufficiently powerful to hear the
government stations at Arlington and
at Cape Cod.
A. NJ Bennett of West Brattleboro
has the outfit originally used by Mr..
MorehOuse. Mr.. MorehoUse has a sta
tion at his home on Myrtle street.
Homer Ellis has station on the top
of the Ryther building at 127 Main
street, and Vaughan & Burnett, jewel
ers, have one on the top of the Hooker
building, next north of che Ryther
building A station has Just been COM
plctea for Joseph G. Estey at his home
on Florence terrace by Mr.. Bennett A
station at the high school also has Just
been placed in operation.
No two of these stations are exactly
alike in equipment, particularly as to
the aerials, the part of the equipment
visible to the outsider. 1t is the wires
of the aerial, the mouth and ear of the
station, that intercept the electro-mag-
netic waves upon which systems of
communication depend. The value of
an aerial is dependent upon its height
above the surface of the earth. The
greater its height the wider will be its
field. Proximity to all large conductors,
such as smokestaeks, telephone lines
and similar conductors are avoided as
much as possible, for they absorb APP
preciahle amounts of energy.
Aerials are usually made up of a
number of wires stranded together,
but this is not necessarily the case.
Mr.. Bennett, for instance has a
wooden pole 100 fit. in height and wires
totaling 1000 fit. in length. Vaughan &
Burnett, whose wireless is tuned espe-
cially to hear Arlington in order to
catch the standard time when it is sent
out daily, have five wires of 100 feet
length Mr. Ellis has four of about
the same length and Mr.. Estev S aerial
has two wires of go feet length
These are suspended from the top of a
steel pole 20 feet in height The high
school has a pole nearly 100 feet high
and four wires each 200 feet in length
for aerial. All of them are able to
hear Arlington and Cape Cod and nu-
merous smaller stations at nearer
points.
In order to understand ticks that
are long and short at the will of the
operator the amateur must learn the
Morse and the Continental telegraph
alphabets and when he becomes sufi-
GENTLY proficient to read readily the
dots and dashes, as the short and long
ticks are called he is able to piece.
| together words and phrases and de-
rives from that great satisfaction.
Naturally there is other apparatus
| than the aerial, and. while some of
the sets are quite complicated and cost
considerable money, it is possible to
install a receiving set with necessary
aerial to permit hearing messages from
considerable distance for very
small sum. a so bill would cover the
cost of the cheapest sort OF q station.
y small sending set could he bought
for SO 50 that a station that would
permit sending and receiving messages
for a distance of a few miles could be
installed for less than $50, but in or
der to have sending station an ex-
animation would be necessary. The
licenses issued for the station and the
operator are not charged for by the
government.
A cursory inspection Of a pamphlet
explaining how simple it is to install
and operate a wireless set is almost in
stantly convincing that il is not simple
/ but to talk with one of those who have
had little experience with such sta
| tons in Brattleboro is rather more re-
assuring. Given someone TO install the
| apparatus there seems to be nothing
difficult left to be done except TO
transcribe readily what is heard
through the headphone over the ears
through which the message is received.
always excepting that the amateur is
not to have Il sending apparatus install
ed. This requires practice in send
ing, practice that could be conducted