The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-10-05
COL. LEN0IR'S
 LETTER ABOUT
 ASIATIC RADIO

OF I'IS MEANS ilf Rtitl\ l-N'
 THE AsATIc CABLE coNGEs l TON
 LD Colonel Lenior. l.. $. Army sig nal corps in response to a request ot rhy cable committee of the Importers and Exporter association has sent 10 Secretary Alunson letter detailing his plans for relief If Asiatc commun-
 .cation.
 The letter to thr association fol
 oWs:
 | |G,nflcmrn.
 herewith reduce to writing my
 views as to the communication with
 Asia. a- expressed 10 yoW committee at noon August 26.
 r is believed that the best routes nd methods of communication will require the most time to put into af feet. and the ~loWest methods will re lure the least time The best method which would require the longest time would be to lay d cable from Seattle or ijs vicinity to Dutch harbor or Vi cinIty, about fifteen hundred miles, another cable from Dutch HarbOr 10 the vicinity of Attn Island, about six hundred miles, another cable from the vicinity of Atu Island to Yoko- hama or Vladiyostok about seven teen hundred miles Geographical miles herein in all measurementsD
 The next best method would be to lutiIize the present cable from Seattle | 10 Valdez, Alaska. abour fourteen hundred miles, large radio stations established at Valdez and at or near the Attu Islands and d cable seven teen hundred miles from there to Yokahama or NIadiyostok By in sorting raidio circuit fourteen hundred miles in the center of this route, il would be possible for oper- arors al Valdez and Attu Island to receive and send messages at the same time, and there would be no delay as there would be nowhere messages were received or sent by radio. because the sending by radio would interfere with the receiving by radio. It k true that the attempt has been made at certain places to receive and send by radio al the same time but that requires two an IDennae, seperated several miles apart.
 As to the publicity of this radio tie Use 10 anyone except to those to whom they are directed. Any teIe- gram of general interest can easily | be put into code so that even the telegraphers themselves will not know what they are transmitting.
 II is thot the construction of the | l70O miles of cable would be the maximum delay in establishing this route as while that was being con stucted the towers could be con sructed and the radio apparatus in stalled
 The third route which is thot would be the least effective, could be put into operation at the earliest l time, i. e, the present cable to Val 1 deg, the present wire to NulatO, the present radio from Nulato to Nome
 and the present radio station al
 Nome to connect with the nearest Siberian station at Anadyr, Siberia 800 miles
 Up to the present time there has been no communication to Anadyr but il has been reported that it can be easily heard at Nome Inasmuch as there has never been any demand for this communication it has never been put into effect IL is very likely that Anadyr has connections down thru Siberia to Vladivostok; as to this 1 am not sure, but it could be ascertained in Washington, where data is kept on all radio stations IThe connection between Anadyr and Vladivostok may be first class or it
 may be very limited or it may reach Vladivostok with a few delays, again it may take many relays
 1t is noted that the level area in Valdez which includes the Valdez bay area and the terrain from the Valdez
 glacier is about six miles wide and about fifteen miles long, and in the direction of Japan the level area is about ten miles before reaching the mountains II is thot there would be
 no difficulty in getting over the mountains at that point
 Last year | had the cableship Burn
 side stop at Valdez and ascertain the possibilities of Valdez as radio sta Ition, and thus succeeding in listening Ito naval stations along the California and Alaska coasts, and also certain Japanese stations and stations in the northern part of Alaska. The plant on the Burnside is only three kilowatts
 and while it could receive very well lit could not send to those stations
 outside of Alaska.
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