The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-12-30

with FRANCHISE. took the telephones
and listened to the signals from
Elvise. Rome, Warshaw, Carnarvon,
Arlington. Lafayette. Lyons, and
other Of the long wave" stations.
Indeed, during the whole afternoon
Godfrey entertained them by tuning
in messages and copying them from
dots and dashes of the Morse code.
Both the Baron and koblitz eX-
pressed their delight; therefore that
evening Godfrey ventured 10 ask
where the second station was to be
erected. for quite ten days before
all the remaining cases had been
despatched to destination OF which
lie had been kept in ignorance.
MY Government have not yet de-
cidcd." was his reply. The boxes
have been sent to Versec, close to
the Serbian frontier. No doubt to-
morrow or next day We shall hear
what is decided. You said this after
noon that you have finished, and that
all is In order to ransmit-as we'll
as to receiver"
Yes" Godfrey replied, "all IS
ready. I have only now to put up
the corresponding station"
Gould you, for instance. send of
message for me to-morrow-say
at noon?"
certainly" was Falconer's reply.
we are ready to run and give a
test whenever you like"
Excellent. Then we will 90 over
| in the car tomorrow and send out
the test message-eh. Monsieur Kob-
litz?" WAS the genial, brown bearded
mans reply.
That night Godfrey failed to sleep.
Fiv" weeks had passed since he left
London. and though he had written
to sylvia several times, he had re-
ccivcd no word Of reply. II she had
been In Paris. she was surely at
Upper Brook Street again.
lie was ignorant Of the significant
fact that each letter he had left for
Ludwig TO post had been taken by
Francoise and handed to her uncle,
who had opened It and read it in
conjunction with Karl, the faithful
man-Servant. Afterwards each let
ter had been burned. This had been
repeated each time Godfrey had
written Il letter either to Marconi
House. TO his father at Marley. or
to any other person.
| On Sylvia's part she was still
writing TO the Ritz. ut Budapest,
whence she had had letter from
her lover, and they were retaining
the letters expecting the young Eng
lish engineer 10 return. rs the Baron.
unknown to Georffey, had promised.
Next morning broke chill and misty
over the Carpathians. and at half
past eleven the Baron, accompanied
by Falconcr, FRANCHISE. and koblitz,
drove to the newly completed wire
less station.
Inside the transmission hut as they
stood together, the Baron took out
a slip OF thin paper which he care
fully unfoided and handed to his
companion, saying: .
The call-siGnal will not be found
in the official book" Then added:
LAS you see. the message Is seven
figure code"
Geoffrey looked and saw that the
call-letters written upon the slip OF
paper were C.HXR., followed by
i tumble OF figures interpreted
with letters Of the alphabet.
! The initial letter Of the call showed
! that the station wanted was either
/ in spain, Portugal. Morocco. or
/ R,umania. No doubt It was in the
! latter country.
The call-signal allotted 10 this
station is the letters. O.S.R.C.," the
Baron said, after referring to his
! pocket-book.
So the young radio-engineer at
once sat down To the key and tapped
ont the usual preliminary call, FOL
lowed by his own call and the call
Of the unknown station he wanted.
Get them first by telegraphy, ana
then | will telephone to them.
Urged the Baron excitedly.
Within ten minutes Godfrey OBJ
,,ined y rrepon4c, and after sending
IN. code message by telegraph, he
switched on the telephone transmit
Tor and handed tho miCrophone to
the Baron.
"IIuIio. Hullo. IIullo. Prtresco?
ps,rcsco?" he called. holding the
transmittcr close to his lips. Then
!, English he went on: Can you
hcar me? Is speech all right? This
/. = test TO you. lHease tell me
whether YOU have heard me distinct
~, IIullo. Pctresco? Hulio! re-
,r,srnp This 10 O.S.Rt. calling
calling C.lI.N.E."
And he handed the microphone 10
G.onrcv, who at once repeated the
ulcrv. ami concluded it with tho
words always used in wireless teic-
nhnuy. 90. ..RG.. changing over.
In q few moments there came
clear voice evidently ut Il consiuer-
able distance, saying:
"IIu,lo. O.S.R.U? IIullo! Your
signals are quite OK. Your modula-
ton quite good. Congratulations:
lie handed the head-phones TO the
Baron. who, with great satisfaction,
heard the speech repeated. IheE
were certainly in touch with the
nyster,oIls station in R0umania.
WE!lr the test WAS in progress
E'rauvoi.;c stood in the narrow llttic
room Watching intently.
ideally marvcilnus!' madem"i-
,,cIIr declared when she herself put
on the telephones and heard the
rcu,v again repeated in 4 clear.
rather musical voice.
Then. after another ten minutes
the Baron asked Falconcr to swiech