The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-05-08
AMERICAN NAVY HOLDS RADIO
 RECORD

Washington. May S.-Despite the maulings it has received at the hands of the Armament Conference and Congress, the United States Navy stands supreme today in one respect at Ieast-its system of high-pOweT 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 I'll 45 me tres, is one of the most powerful ln the world. Operated by remote con trol by means of keys in the Navy Building here, the Arlington statlon Ion 9s depended upon day ir and day out to transmit messages over radius or about $500 miles. This range lncludeS the extreme eastern end Of the Meol- terranean Sea, and the same territory also can be reached from the oppo- site direction by the Navy Fhllip- pine station at Cavite, which operates on 13,9O0 meters.
 Among the Nays larger units southward of the great Annapolis station are the sending plants at Cay ey Porto Rico using a 1O,1Io meter wave and the station at Balboa, can al Zone, sending on lO,I1O meters The eastern portion of the Pacific Is coveEed from the continent by a sta tion at San Diego, Cal, and another on Puget Sound, the former using waves of $500 meters, and the lat ter waves of 7.1G0 meters
 7 has two sending stations, one using I1,5OO meters and the other $, 5- The naval station at Guam, which sends on 9, 145 meters, and the l3,9OO meter plant in the Philippines, com .plete the Navy's net Of radio stations around the world Wherever its ships are likely to cruise they nearly always will be within range or the dots and dashes from one or more of the Navy's sending stations.
 FSo,.fiaaux Station Strongest.
 The Lafayette station near BOr- deauX. France, using the longest .waves-23, ,OOO meIers-conceded to be the most powerful radio station in the world was built by the United States Navy to facilitate America s part in the world war, but has slnce been sold to France. Its broadcasts are transmitted with ease over the 900 miles of water and land that separate Bordeaux from Washington. and occasionally it has been heard in French Indo-China, 6,OOO miles Tn . the East The commercial station recently opened on Long Island, us- ing the second longest wave in nse 19,OOO meters, is expected to chal- lenge the Lafayette stations title 10 first place when additional units are added. The Long Island station is used for transmitting messages to Germany, about 1000 miles away
 The British Navy, time-honored ..nJistress of the Seas,'' in direct con  maintain a system of land stations of it's own. but uses those Of the Brl- fish Post office. Through these postal stations practically encircle the earth they do so in much smaller jumps than those of the United States Navy epd therefore use less powerful sta tions. . -
 Seven of the twelve lonSest-WaVe stations which follow Annapolis are in the United States or its terrltorles They are commercial stations at Bar negat. N. J.. 16.SO0 meters: St. James, Long Island, It, ,465; Kohuku, Ha- waiian Islands. 16,300. and Tucker ion. N J., 15,9O0; the Navy station at Cavite, Philippine Islands. and commercial stations at New Bruns- Inas Cal 13, BIO meters.
 Numerous United States Army sending stations, operating on wave lengths from a. few hundred to 1e'- OOO meters are scattered over the country. The Post Office Department at it's several stations sends on waves for the most part between 1000 and 4OOO meters long