The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-18
AMERICAN NAVY
 HOLDS RADIO RECORD

| the maulings it has received at the hands ofthe Armament Conference and Congress, the United States Navy stands supreme today in one respect at least - it's system of high-power
 land stations for radio telegraphy is the most complete of all naval estab- lishments.
 The Navy's station at Arlington. as signed a wave-length of 17,145 meters, is one of the most powerful in the world. Operated by remote control by means of keys in the Navy Building here, the Arlington station is depended upon day in and day out to transmit messages over a radius of about $500 miles. This range includes the ex- treme eastern end of the Mediterran can Sea, and the same territory also can be reached from the opposite di- rection by the Navy's Philippine sta tion at Cavite, which operates on 13, 900 meters.
 Among the Navy's larger units southward of the great Annapolis sta tion are the sending plants at Cayey, Porto Rico, using a 10,510-meter wave and the station at Balboa, Canal Zone, sending on 1O,110 meters. The east ern portion of the Pacific is covered from the continent by station at San Diego, Cal, and another on Puget Sound, the former using waves of $500 meters and the latter waves of 7,100 meters.
 In the Hawaiian Islands the Navy has two sending stations, one using 11,5OO meters and the other 8,875. The naval stations at Guam, which sends on 9,145 meters, and the 13,900meter plant in the Philippines, complete the Navy's net of radio stations around the world. Wherever it's ships are likely to cruise they nearly always will be within range of the dots and dashes from one or more of the Navy's send ing stations.
 BORDEAUX STATION STRONGEST
 The Lafayette station near Bor- deaux, France, using the longest waves-23O 900 meters-concede to be the most powerful radio station in the world, was built by the United States Navy to facilitate Americas part in the World War, but has since been sold to France. Its broadcasts are transmitted with ease over the 4,000 miles of water and land that separate Bordeaux from Washington, and occa- sionally it has been heard in French Indo-C China, 5000 miles in the East. The commercial station recently opened on Lond Island, using the sec ond longest wave in. use, 19,000 met CTS is expected to challenge the La fayette stations title to first place when additional units are added. The Long Island station is used for trans mitting messages to Germany, about 4,OOO miles away.
 The British Navy, time-honored Mistress of the Seas" in direct con, trast to the American Navy, does not maintain a system of land stations of it's own, but uses those of the British post office. Though these postal sta tions practically encircle the earth they do so in much smaller jumps" than those of the United States Navy and therefore use less powerful sta, tions.
 Seven of the twelve longest-wave sta tions which follow Annapolis are in the United States or it's territories They are commercial stations at Bar egat, N. J., 16,S0O meters; St. James Long Island, 16,465; Kohuku, Ha waiian Islands, 16,30O, and Tuckerton N. J., 15,900; the Navy station at Ga vite, Philippine Islands and commer ciaI stations at New Brunswick, N. J. 13,6OO meters and Bolinas, Gal, IS, BIO meters.
 Numerous United States Army send ing stations, operating on wave lengths from a few hundred to 10, 900 meters, are scattered over the ] country. The post office Department at it's several stations sends on waves for the most part between 1000 ant IT | 4