New Britain herald., 1925-04-03
RADIO PORTS OF
 ENTRY IN WORLD
Stations Where Wireless Mes.
 Saes Flash In

: Washington, D. C.. April 2.--Port Jefferson, carnarvon. Nauen, Great lakes. Nantes. and owald are un- familiar names to most, people. To radio operators they stand for six of the worlds greatest cities; New York, London, Berlin. Chicago. Paris, and Tokyo. They are radio gates to these cities. says bulletin of the National Geographic society from It's headquarters at Washing ton, D, c.
 Because Of interference by tall buildings the wireless telegraph sta- t!ons for the great cities generally are away from the business centers. : Sometimes the city's radio gate may be 150 miles away, like the Cabo dc Sac Thome station used by Rio de Janeiro. Japan offers another reason for locating a radio gate far from great city, When Yoko- hama and Tokyo fell in the cata- clysm of September, 1923, all com niunications ceased. Civilization re- celved the first s o s for help for tho stricken district from a little seacoast town, Haranomachi, 100 miles north of Tokyo, outside the quake area. This trans- Pacific wireless station generally goes by he name of Iwaki, because of the province In which 1t lies.
 Rome Station at San PaoIo
 Saint Paul is believed to have boon executed at a place now called San Paolo, near the old road 10 Ostia two miles south of Rome. At this sacred place tall radio towers today receive news from all Christcndom. Ostia, once proud port of entry for Rome, gives way to San Paolo, radio port of entry for modern rome.
 "Abu Zabel is Cairo's radio gate Resting on the edge of the desert its towers look upon nearby Heliopolis, where Plato studied. In no less striking contrast stands the Car- narvon station. on which London depends largely for trans Atlantic radio communication. Carnarvon townspeople point out, not their radio station. but grim Carnarvon castle, said to be the most nearly perfect example of a medieval fort ress in the British Isles. Carnaryon owes it's radio importance to its location in westernmost Wales,
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 "Nantes is bes. known for the edtct temporarily granting religious freedom to the Hagenots, in France. put Radio operators are more fla mi'iar With tgas radio station for Fafls Nantes has not displaced sElitel Tower nor the American built Bordeaux station, Nauen, 20 miles East Of Berlin, is the radio port of entry for the German capital. New : fork may get the wireless mesa ages ram any of a number of places Although communications are con sstantly coming in at Port Jefferson. Long Island; Tuckerton, New Jer. sey, near Atlantic City: and Belfast. fNlaine, they are automatically .re- tiayed so that they are all actully re- ceivcd in New York skyscraper. Wireless telegraphy throws 8 net around the earth. The South orkneys, off the tip of Ticrra del Feugo, claim the permanent station nearest the South Pole. In January. 1924, the National Geographic so- ciety radioed greetings to the farthest north station, The Bowdoin, Donald B. MacMillan's ship fast in the ice, and deep in the gloom of Arctic night and Refuge Harbor near Etah. Greenland.
 Credit for the most norther,y permanent station must go to Nor way for Kavoresand, which is north of Hammerfest, at the tip top of the Scandinavian peninsula The lone ly Naigach Island post maintained