WIRELESS.
WARSHIPS' GEAR NOT UP-TO-DATE. WILL BE REPLACED. By Tcleitraph-Press Association-Copyright. Sydney, March 3. The warship Pioneer picked up and answered a wireless message from H.M.S. Powerful. The message was sent from the North Cape on Thursday night. On the following night the Pioneer's appara 7 tus was dismantled in order to install a more powerful one.
Tho cruiser Cambrian's gear is also old, otherwise it is claimed the warships would have got the messages from the Powerful and Encounter that Mr. Pike, tho inventor of a new detector, picked up.
Within a short time most of the ships of the Australian Squadron will be fitted with improved installments similar to those of the Powerful. It is expected that they will then be able to receive and transmit regular • messages to New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 757, 4 March 1910, Page 5
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133WIRELESS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 757, 4 March 1910, Page 5
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