Evening star., 1925-04-12
BIC RADIO STATIONS
SET Up IN SUBURBS
Kept Away From Business
CenterS Because of Inter-
l. ference by Buildings.

Port Jefferson, Carnarvon, Nauen
Great Lakes, Nantes and Iwaki are
unfamiliar names to most people. To
radio operators they stand for six
of the world greatest cities, New
York, London, Berlin, Chicago, Paris
and Toxic. They are radio gates TO
these cities, says a bulletin of the
National Geographic Society from its
headquarters here.
Because of interference by tall
buildings, the wireless telegraph sta
lions for the great cities generally
are away from the business centers.
Sometimes the city's radio gate may
he $50 miles away, like the Cabo de
Sac Thome station used by Rio de
-ianeiro. Japan offers another rea-
son for locating a radio gate far from
great city. When Yokohama and
Toxic fell in the cataclysm of Sep
tember, 1923, all communication
ceased. Civilization received the first
3 O. S. for help for the stricken dis
Trict from little seacoast town.
Haranomachi. 100 miles north of
loklo. outside the quake area This
'rshspacif1o wireless station generally
goes by the name of Iwaki, because
or the province in which 1t lies.
Rome Station at sam PaoIo,
Saint Paul is believed to have been
Paolo, near the old road to Ostia, 2
miles south of Rome. At this sacred
place tall radio towers today receive
news from all Christendom Ostia-
once proud port of entry for Rome,
gives way to San PaoIo, radio pert of
entry for modern Rome
Abu label is Cairo's radio gate
resting on the edge of the desert.
Its towers look upon nearby Heliop-
OILS, where Plato studied. In no less
striking contrast stands the Carnar-
Won station, on which London depends
largely for transatlantic radio comrnun-
'cauoh. Carnaryon townspeople point
out, not their radio station, but grim
CarnarVon Castle. said TO be the most
nearly perfect example of a medieval
fortress in the British Isles Carnar-
Won owes its radio Importance to its
location in westernmost Wales.
Relays 10 New York Skyscraper.
Nantes is best known for the edict
temporarily granting religious free
dom to the Huguenots, in France. but
radio operators are more familiar
with 1t as radio station for Paris
Nantes has not displaced Eiffel Tower
nor the American built Bordeaux sta
tion. Nauen, 20 miles east of Berlin.
is the radio port of entry for the
German capital. New York may get
Der OF places. Although communica-
tions are constantly coming in at
Port Jefferson, Long Island: Tucker
town, \. j., near Atlantic City, and
Belfast, Me-, they are automatically
relayed SO that they are all actually
received in a New York skyscraper.
wireless telegraphy throws a net
around the earth. The South Orkneys,
or the tip of TERRA del Fuego. claim
the permanent station nearest the
south pole. In January. 1924 the Ma
tional Geographical Society radioed
greetings to the farthest north sta
tton, the Bowdoin, Donald B. Mac
Millan's ship fast in the ice, and deep
in the gloom of Arctic night, at
Refuge Harbor near Etah, Green
land.
Credit for the most northerly per-
manent station must go to Norway
for kavoresand, which is North of
Hammerfest, at the tip top of the
Scandinavian Peninsula. The lonely
Vatgach Island post maintained by
the soviet government is nearly as
FAR North
Talks From Sahara.
1T is not regarded as wise to cross
the Sahara Desert in Midsummer.
The Sahara is more uncomfortable
than the sea, but radio row has done
the ocean. Last Summer an American
newspaper man went overland from
Algiers to the Niger Hazardous
though the journey was. this traveller
was able to communicate with his
wife in the United States nearly
every three days through the oasis
radio telegraph stations established
by the French.
"Col. Claude H Birdseye and his
party two years ago were swallowed
up for weeks in the depths of the
Colorado River Canyons While their
fate was debated in the newspapers
the party at the bottom of the can
yon heard through their radio set
the sad news of President Harding's
death in San Francisco.
Could the great explorers come
back they would find the scene of
their exploits decorated with wireless
towers. Darien, where Balboa dis
covered the Pacific Ocean, has a
wireless station. Cebu, the island on
which Magellan was killed, now sup
ports one. So does San Salvador
where Christopher Columbus landed
Magellan, going through the straits.
today might radio a waiting world
at one end, Am entering straits and
from a station az