Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-04
MAY BE ABLE
TO TALK WITH
EUROPE SOON
RadiOphone Makes Rapid
Strides Toward New
Efficiency.

WASHINGTON, May 4.-Before this
year is ended, Secretary of State Hughes
may be able to converse with Ambas-
sailors Harvey in London, Herrick in
Paris and Houghton in Berlin, simply
by lifting a telephone receiver off the
hook
So rapid is the progress being made
in radio telephony, that within a few
months or a year citizens of one coun
try will be able to talk with the people Of
another country thousands of miles away
with little more difficulty than they now
find in calling up their neighbors, the
National Geographic Society stated to-day
in a survey of radio developments.
The United States is particularly well
equipped with radio facilities for talking
across the seas, as the bulk of the most
powerful radio stations in the world
either are in this country or under the
control of this Government. Radio tele-
phony is making rapid progress and
soon will catch up with its slightly older
brother-radio telephony-the society
stated.
LAFAYETTE STATION
ON $500 METERS.
Only one radio station in the world
uses regularly a longer wave length than
any station under the control Of this
Government And this station was built
by the United States Navy. 1t is the
Lafayette station at Bordeaux, France.
Its wave length is %, 900 meters ap-
prOximately Il miles Messages from this
station are received in Washington-4,O 900
miles from the source. The Lafayette
Indo China, 5000 miles away. The Navy
erected the station during the war and
then sold it to France
However, the Lafayette station will not
hold first place long, as it's supremacy
is being challenged by the commercial
station recently opened on Long Island.
This station uses wave length of TO-
600 meters, or nearly twelve miles, and
is employed in transmitting messages to
Germany, distance Of about four thou
sand miles Additional units now
planned will give this station a greater
wave length
The United States Nays station at
Annapolis, Md, is assigned a wave Of
II, 40 meters froughly ten and ne-half
niles, the third longest in use, but il is
easily one Of the worlds most powerful
stations. So IS the Navy station at
Cavlte, Philippine Islands, operating on
1900 meters. The Navy depends on the
Annapolis station-which is operated, in
cidentally, by remote control by means
of keys in the Navy Building IN Wash
ington--to transmit messages day in and
day out over a radius Of about $500
miles
Z. S. HAS
COMPLETE SYSTEM
The United States Navy has the most
complete system Of high power land sta
tons for radio telegraphy OF all naval
establishments. Southwark. of the great
Annapolis station It has among its larger
units the sending plant at Cayey, Porto
Rico using a 1850 meter wave. and an
: other at Balboa Canal Zone, sending on
/ 10, 100 meters. The eastern portion Of the
Pacific is covered from the continent by
a station at San Diego Cal, and another
on Puget Sound. The former uses waves
Of $500 meters and the latter of 100 In
the Hawaiian Islands the Navy has two
sending stations, one using II, 500 meters
and the other s,S75. On Guam is a naval
station which sends on g. 145; and, finally.
in the Philippines is the 1890 meter sta
ton.
In practically no place where its ships
are likely to cruise will they be ont of
range Of one or more of the Nays send
ing stations.