The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-04-30
Mutual Telephone Company Will
Open Commercial Wireless
d Service This Week
TALKED WITH FAR AWAY
,.. JAPAN LAST FEBRUARY
Superintendent BaIch Gives Ho-
noIulu Records In Trans
pacific Communication

Within the next few days, the Nh.
tual Telephone Company, which oper.
ate the inter. island wireless services,
will establish commercial service be.
tween Honolulu ara T'utnila, American
Samoa, distant 225O n1iIes. Not much
later the service will be extended 40
Suva, in the Fiji Islands, distant 200
miles. r. E
/ As the subjoined letter of Superin-
tendent J. A. Balch explains, Honolulu
already has talked direct with .Janan.
distant 1880 miles, as well as with
| Apia. aud Tutuila. The letter, adj
dressed to The Advertiser, follows;
Not Marcorn Signals ~. -. -
ET't1n your paper of February 3 last,
an article appearing under the heading
Special Cable 10 the Nippu Jill
stating that the 0tchishi radio station
on the Island of Hekkaido, JaIan, had
picked up on the night of February 2,
lpl5,s radio message sent out from the
MaToni wireless station, this island,
and, although a distance OF approx.
mateiy $500 miles separated the two
stations, the, signals from Hawaii were
clearly heard for, about an hour. 4
Z Now, while not trying to detract
in the least from the honors due our
friends and allies, the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph Company, still / would
like to cali your attention TO the fol.
lowing letter, which clearly shows that
itiwas the Wahiawa station of the 10.
eel Mutual wireless which established
this first recorded radio communication
betxs cen Honolulu. and Japan, f&a
| Toxic, Japan, March 4, 1918.
! Mutual Telephone Company, Wire
+ less Departments, Honolulu, T. H.:
Y Dear Sifs Referring 10 your let.
ter OF February 5 last, 1 beg to con
t Arm you that our tOtehishi wireless
station 4 in Hokkaido successfully
picked up, as was stated, signals sent
| out from a Hawaiian station on the
4 End ult4, and that the setation heard
4 was your tKHKy' (Wahiawa sta
Il tion) and not ~ KIE ~ (Mareoni) y.
y On Thursday night February ~ the
i 0tchishi station again heard your
/ Wahiawp n station communicating
7 with the s., s. Manchuria.., The sig.
L Iials caught run AZ follows -
Yours faithfully, ft.Jat IL. @-..'....2
(signd) JIRo CANAKA, .
I Director General, Posts and Tele-
| graph. e.. 49,. ~.
, IsLOchl hocOr06 Ao1ui g. ''HG ~ 90
while on the subject of long. dis.
lance radio communications, it might
be Of interest TO record the fact that
; it has been the local company which
. has led in long-distance radio trans.
, missions, as o glance at the following
. established night records will prove:
: October, l9oS-First eommunica.
ltion established between Kahuku,
Oahu, and San Francisco, California, a
|, distance of 21O0 miles. I s
October, l90S-First eomlnunica.
tiop established between Kahuku,
. Oahu, and Sitka, Alaska, distance of
2200 miles. ,,. .S.t@@.. -. ~.
Il August, I9i4-First communication
! established between Wahiawa, Oahu,
and Tutuila, Samoa, distance of 1850
miles.
January, I915--First eonimuniea,
. ton established between Wahiawa,
$ ioahn, and Apia, Samoa, and by relay
: with the latter station to AwaRui, New
= Zealand, a total distance of 1850 miles.
+ February, ,l9l5---First eommunica.
= ton established between Wahiawa,
Oahu, and Japan, distance of stOJ
: niilPs ..~ az. ~ .@- q.~ ,,t@7,tf z,
/ 3" April, 1915, - First eomniersial
Q night service estab; ished between Ha.
8 wnii and AmericIn Samoa, distance
lh 329o miles tsnr-l ~. IN 4s.s.a