In all parts of America schoolboys and other am&toure have -rigged up an apparatus upon houses, barns, and wood-sheds for receiving wireless messages, and those ingonious youths ocoaßionally . make such indiscriminate uso of distress and other signals, tiat the Govenunent is being urged to tako aotion, with tho object of preventing wireless confusion,' more • particularly along tho American- coast. Somo stores in the big cities in America.soil wireless plants, - which are .fairly efficient for short distances, and it is estimated that over 50,000 ingenious American boys have installed nondescript, stations at their own expense, ranging from a fow shillings to £6 or £7. ■■ It is asserted that these .youngsters occasionally break into Government messages, and send "fake" alarms, hurrying revenue cutte-re to sea in ■ aid of a! supposed vassal in distreea, and so on.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 5
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134Untitled Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 781, 2 April 1910, Page 5
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