ULIMAROA'S WIRELESS."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 910, 1 September 1910, Page 6

ULIMAROA'S WIRELESS."

Although "wireless", .-installations -'have■been in ..operation- for some'time' on the warships of the Pacificysquadron, to the Ulimaroa is./given .the' hohour:,,of, being the 'first■■intercolonial 1 : merchant steamer, to -be -fitted; with;.;thc: apparatus... 'The special; room -which was.-built: abaft Hμ'. 'funnel'-: on -the: boat-deck/durihg-\ the' vessel's last':.voyage , at: Melbourne 'is .now completely.fitted with- the ; ;delicateaiistfu-. lnents necessary/ for transmitting "and ;rc-: ceiviug i aerial messages.' At the" present . time', anv. operator. has ...toS be .at 'the .:ini; ; chine.all: tlie ',tiriie ; .with the receiver :toihis :.ears, ; ; but-. the Australian,,.Wifelesi. Company;. Ltd., ,has. secured- the'-'patent rights for; 'an instrument .which. Mr. .G. yon' , Duhn (who'.is"electrical .'eDgmt*r'..t(. the'company and at present oh. the .Ulimaroa), states, will allow the-'-'opera-tor to hear; the "singing"; of the , instrument .at. a ,considerable : distance "away. This, new 'invention 'which: is '■ called. '•■,* ■"sound increaser" lias only, .been , ; out .'a year and will.be fitted'to the; Olimavba r'in due course. AVhen'one walks .into' the cosy: little room he.: is struck .first, of all. by the,'fact that, the place.'is;'a .living room,'as. well, as a'house'.for a';mass .of •intricate'.delicate machihery.; This is necessary: where, only one opera tor,-is carried because , he, has to bei'always' near the -"wonderful thing" as Mr. von Duhri called! it, in case' anyone is "ringing up." On the trip across'communication was established' with- the E.M.S.. Morea'.Vthe instrument working splendidly. '. Mr. von Duhn also tried '.. to. get. into' communication with the Australian wireless station at Sydney, , but although , -he received'in-dications-they were unintelligible to him. This -was through' no. fault of. his;'machine); but. ; sbmething^was'.wrong , at'the shore end. •...;.- -. : ■■-. ■■.-.■■;•'.,., -.: ~ ■- -i-.-