The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-04
GE R|MAN RADIO Is
FAST RECOvE RING
Over 100000 Messages
Handled During Past Year
to Foreign Nations

NAUEN, ebruary
Nearly 100000 words flashed
the air between German wireless sta
tons and foreign countries during
1921 A total of 61S,30 messages
were handled, compared with 1926
in 1919 and 315,500 in 1920. The
word counts in these two preceding
years We're 4,S20,S0O and 7,750,500,
respectively. as against 11,972.6Oo last
year.
OF the 1921 traffic. 5,195,39S words
were exchanged with United States
stations in 1866 radiograms. Spain
ranked next in volume of communi-
cation with 90,12S messages of
$1,000 of 1,512,133.
Germanys oldest important sta
tion is located here. Its traffic in
creased from $1,000 words in 1914
to 4,653,700 in 1918. During the three
Intervening war years. a total of
5,1S3,300 words was transmitted and
received at Nauen. sister tower
at Eilvasen, near Hanover, 1t is re-
vealed, handled about 5000 words
daily in connection with Tuckerton,
n. j., during the latter part of the
war.
The Nauen and Eilvasen stations
operate regularly within a radius of
$500 to 5000 miles, although their
messages have been known to be
picked up as far away as New Yea
land, $4,000 miles distant. The wire
less service at Nauen is carried on
at scheduled periods with plants in
the United States and with Moscow,
Aranjuez (Spain), Rome, Bucharest,
and Oradeamare (Rumania). This
plant handles press dispatches for
overseas, as well as the usual tele-
graphic commercial business, and is
sues regular announcements of the
time of day. Eilvesen is supple
mentary to the Nauen station. It
acts mainly as a receiving depot, but
handles the outgoing messages of
the European press.
In addition to these two enter
national plants, there is a wireless
net spread over Germany comprfs-
ing three chief stations. nine of in
termediate calbre, nine-of still small
Ter radius, and 70 which are capable
Of receiving only. OF the three large
stations. Berlin handles the inland
communication nigswusterhausen
takes care of such European BUSH
ness as does not go through Nauen
or Eilvesen, and Norddech serves
shipping with weather reports, storm
warnings, and other news of interest
to seamen. According to the last
figures available, there are more
than 400 radio sets operating on Ger
man mercantile ships In 1914 there
were $50. in 1920 only rs and last
year 304. The decrease from pre-war
days to 1920 is attributed to the
large amount of shipping handed
over to the entente under the Ver-
sailles peace treaty.
This decline was reflected also in
the way Germany's coastal wireless
stations dropped in number ON 2s
in 1914 to 10 in 1920. Last year
this figure had already mounted as
high as %.
1t is believed that Germanys new
wireless telephone system soon will
be extended to ships at sea. When
this is accomplished. it is pointed
out, many small vessels, such as fish
ing smacks, will be able to keep in
constant touch with the land. Less
expensive material will be REQUIRED
for the telephone connection, and 1t
VIII not be necessary to employ the
services of a skilled operator.
Wireless telephony already has
been adopted as the means of trans
hitting commercial news to 17s
cities throughout the republic. and
plans are under way to broadcast
radio entertainments to specified To-
calities