Seward daily gateway., 1925-10-21
SEWARD NAVAL
 RADIO STATION.
 IMPORTANT UNIT
PAST YEARS IMPROVEMENT AT LOCAL STATION FAVORABLE
 INDICATION.
RADIO EXPERTS ARRIVE
Kodiak Station May Be Abandoned In the Near Future Says
 @ Hubbard.

"The improvements which have been authorized for the Seward Ma val radio station during the past year would seem to indicate that this station has a definite part to play in the plans for future develop ments in radio communication in Alaska" stated George s. Hubbard, radio expert, shortly after the arriv- al of his party in Seward a few days aga on the steamer Starr from the Westward. Mr. Hubbard is reputed to be one of the notable radio ex- perts in the U. s. Navy department, and according to local report, upon his return to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, will assume the duties of ra- dio expert, with supervision over la boratories and designs. MT. Hubbard is no stranger to Alaska having first visited the stations in the Territory in 1916. Since that time he has made frequent trips of inspections. He is originally from the Mare Island Navy Yard and during 1921 and 1922, was manager of the Pacific Coast Radio Corporation.
 It is stated this trip will be his last to Alaska, in his present capacity. His work of checking over the Sew ard station will occupy his attention for probably week longer, at the expiration of which time he will de- part with his crew, for the south. He is El s: at the Hotel O. land.
 C,a .inllns. tIr. Hub5a", stated to th" Gl',.say representativ
 The :lio engineering p2~:v has ::lst ".:nrie.fd the ins:a :-.on O. a modern ,auuum transmIttur of high puxer. : til. Pribilof Isis dds This transmit CT does the san work the former did on one-fifth of the total power input, due to the increased eff ficiency of the new type of equip ment over the old.
 Tt is interesting to note also that the equipment and material that went to make up the old transmitter, in cluding the engines used as prime movers, would weigh about twenty five to thirty times what the new one, just installed, does. A set similar to the one at this station was also in stalled at Dutch Harbor recently by my party. During our stay in Sew ard we are conducting tests at the station using extremely high ire. quencies Many wonderful records for transmitting messages over vast distances have been made, both by civilian and military experimenters, during the past year, using wave lengths of from twenty to 100 met CTS, bonding to frequencies of fifteen million to three million cy- cles. These records of three to four thousand miles have been made on the small amount of power cores bonding to that used by seven or eight ordinary seventy4fve-wat light bulbs.
 Tt would be quite safe to prophecy that within five years, the high pow ered' radio station as it exists today, with it's high towers, -wide-spreading antennae and great generators, will be as out of date, as the "beaming bartender who formerly showed lem across the bar," is today In their stead we will have small antennae adapted to high freQuencies and very directive in their transmission.
 It was stated also, that one of these modern transmitters was in- stalled at Kodiak station, but ow- ing to the probability that the Ko- diak station may be abandoned by the Navy in the near future, installa- tion has been held up. It is also learned that the Kodiak Baptist or phanage is negotiating the purchase of the property with the intention of using the building which was de- stroyed by. fire last spring. In clos. ing, MT. Hubbard said that he believ- ed the proposed abandonment of the Kodiak station would place an added responsibility on the Seward station which will require added efficiency in equipment and greater proficinecy on the part of the personnel.