Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-12-11
GERMAN RADIO
RECEIVERS FROM
WAR s EFFECTS
Nearly 100000 Words
Flashed Through the Air
During 1921; $4,000
Messages Handled.

Nauen, Germany, Dec. 10
Nearly 100000 words flashed
through the air between German
wireless stations and foreign
countries during 1921. A total
Of 61S,3O0 messages were handled,
compared with 10000 in 1919
and 315,5O0 in 1920. The word
counts in these two preceding
wears were 4,S2O,SO0 and 1850
500, respectively, as against H.
972 500 last year. .oo
OF the 1921 traffic, 5,1g5,29a
words were exchanged with United
States stations in 315,OB5 radio
grams. Spain ranked next in
Volume of communication with
9O.12S messages Of 1,4O9,lOl
words, and Italy was third with
SS.O49 of l,512,133.
Germany's oldest important
station is located here. Its traf-
tic increased from $4,000 words
in 1914 TO 4,65S,700 in 1918. Dur
ing the three intervening war
wears. a total of 5,1S3,300 words
was transmitted and received at
Nausen, A sister tower at Eilve-
sen. near Hanover, it is revealed,
handled about 5000 words daily
in connection with Tuckerton,
New Jersey, during the latter part
Of the war.
lions operate regularly within a
radius of $500 to $500 miles al
though their messages have been
known to be picked up as far away
as New Zealand, 1900 miles ols-
tant. The wireless service az
Nauen is carried on at scheduled
periods with plants in the United
States and with Moscow, AranJuezl
(spain), Rome, Bucharest, and
Oradeamare (Rumania). This
plant handles press dispatches for
overseas, as we'll as the usual
telegraphic commercial business.
and issues regular announcements
of the time of day. Eilvesen Is
supplementary TO the Nausen
station. 1t acts mainly as
n receiving depot, but handles
the outgoing messages OF the Eu-
ropean press.
A Wireless Net
In addition to these two in
ternationar plants, there Is a
wireless net spread over Ger
MANY comprising three chief
stations, nine Of intermediate
caliber, nine Of still smaller ra-
dius. and seventy-five whicn are
capable of receiving only. OF the
three large stations. Berlin hand
les the inland communication,
Observation-Disclosures takes care
of such European business as
does not go through Nauen or
Eilvesen, and Norddeich serves
shipping with weather reports,
etorrn warnings, and other news
4nf interest to seamen. Accord
ing to tho last figures available,
there are more than 400 radio
sets operating on German n1er-
cantilo ships. In 1914 there
were $50, in 1920 only seventy
eight. and last year 304. The
decrease from pre-wnr days 10
1920 Is attributed 10 the lnrgo
amount of shipping handed over
10 the entente, under the YER
failles peace treaty.
This decline was reflected also
fn the way Germanys coastal
wireless stations dropped IN
number from twenty-six in 1917
to thirteen in 1920. Last year this
figure had already mounted as
high as twenty-five.
1t is believed that Germany
new wireless telephone system
soon will be extended to ships
at sea. When this is accomplish
ed, it is pointed out, many small
vessels, such as fishing smacks
will be able to keep in constant
touch with the land. Less ex.
.pensive material will be required
for the telephone connection. and
1t will not be necessary to en-
ploy the services of a skilled
operator.
Wireless telephony already has
been adopted as the means oi
transmitting commercial news tc
176 cities throughout the repub'
lie, and plans are under way tc
broadcast radio entertainments tC
specified localities.