CAN BLUFF AND ANTARCTICA TALK?

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 930, 24 September 1910, Page 7

CAN BLUFF AND ANTARCTICA TALK?

« CHANCES OF "WIRELESS." v:~; Telegraph--Special Correspondent.) • Chrlstchurch, September 23.- •• ao-- to .the, feasibility of ■ wireless communication- between New . Zesiand; and- the Antarctic, which has been.-talked of in connection with Cap- , tain: Scott's expedition, Mr. Von Duhl, • the Ulimaroa's . wireless expert, said that there . were no very great diffi- . culties in the way. 'lho high-power wireless station..proposed to be' established ' 4 ■by the/New- Zealand.Government • atthe ■ , Bluff should have no difficulty m send- (- Jngmessapes-to;. the .' Antarctic; station ■ 2000 niile3 away, especially at night time, imder,favourable.conditions, and' .. the--messages could "be received and made out' by the.southern station, but' • as far as, sending wireless messages p from :the Antarctic base waß concerned he did not think' that they could be ... clearly:!picked up unless a.'high-power .'■ j . established, in/the Antarc- •. tic. The "station" on 1 the .Terra Nova ■ would scarcely, bo of sufficient power or Tango to "transmit a ;me'ss'age , direct: to j • . the Bluffbut Van.- interinediate ;'station v: on one ihe..;f or a, v: ; : - warship.iwith- wirejess:.;equipment :.sta-, tion , well south: would probably solve The;:sending',would,■ how-: . evor;-'have to be done at night, as in ..... the day: time: the' range-of. a. wiroless - - waslesstlian ! , haM./.ivliat it was. ait night'. He did not think that a station on board the Terra Nova ■ would have a greater.range than.3oo or . . . . 400 miles, and her masts were not sufficiently high for tho "aerials,"- giving ■ • oft,.- the electrical waves, to ■ carry s a greater distance.- A high-power land station, , installed, on some convenient . hill at : tho Antarctic baso, would meet V'.the .difficulty, but tho plant for generating the • electricalpower, ; and' the : allimportant .'question 'of. the cost of tho whole outfit-,; were'v the -.. chief ; problems ■ . to be solved.