PIONEER'S WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 948, 15 October 1910, Page 12

PIONEER'S WIRELESS.

■. -wondebful achievements. .■; ■ ,:• Tho Now. Zealand " ■ I now at Auckland," was in'wireles3,-oo2i>--1 mum&titin 1 'with r> all "'the vessels ,of ■, the , . fleetin: Australia on Saturday night; the" field of. opera- : tions extendinground - tho ; ! Coo- ■■■■•' tineni from. Adelaide to Rockhampton, Though the Pioneer is fitted with only. ■' a medium power apparatus, - calculated on;-a 500 miles radius in daylight; her chief operator (Mr. R. H. Newman) has. achieved some remarkable results. Ha informed a "Star", reporter to-day thai ho was frequently in touch with Adelaide (about -2000 miles), and ho had: - received messages .up.. to 3250 miles: away, though it was impossible to dis- ' patch- messages that: distance with. t4» . Pioneer's , instrument. : -He had dispatohed columns of news from the.\ dailies .to -the. Huddart' Parker Gom- ' ■; pany 1 s. steamer ■ Ulimaroa,:' in ths Tas-.-man Sea, : on Thursday night last; when: • the vessel -was.' Wellington, and he has: also - been - m communication- - with the E.MiS. : Makjua, v bound ifromi • Sydney- to' Vancouver. Messages from tno, mail - boat ceased on Thursdayv: night, 'i when she . was about 500r miles 1 out from Fiji. •> 1 ■ As previously • stated, tho Pion&sr was in communication /with all the : vessels of : the fleet last njght. He Encounter forwarded-a .'message at: 8 p.m., 'stating- that'she. was /then ap-- :- preaching Sydney Heads.- She; reported..all well,, and stated further, that the -. sea ; was calm and 'tho weather bright. ;. and clear.a Then 'the..Challenger• spoko .: ■ -from off- Rockhampton,-.- Queensland, r&- : ■ v porting an cast-north-east galo, and high seas. : Tho , Cambrian and; Prome-' thous. were located m Sydney: Harbour, I- ■ ■ but the. other warships which :w«ro. called up: did:not disclose, their posi-; .':: I tions j .though : the operator:- knows iihenv ■;fa t-o'be scattered round tho coast, between..' .. i Sydney and Adelaide. The greatest distance at. which •:messages. were. trans- ■ 'mrttod)!'last "night ;was> 1700/;milra,it»i : •the Challenger, off Rockhampton. -1 .. - Mr.. Newman bears: ungrudging testi- ■ - rnony to tho inventive ingenuity of tho colonial; youth.. ..He: referred, to a lad: . at Timaru who-rigged up an apparatus .-: on the -American principle from, par-ticulars-given in' a: magazine. .This lad was able to dispatch < and; receive mes-''v i sages, -but; as "wireless'' w- a monopoly , of tho State, he has been ordered not to' ::trahsniit' or' intercept 1 ' messages;.: An-;. other' Now l Zealander who constructed, dn instrument is'.now- in • England 'un-. • . dergoing a :oourse:of instruction,. ; whilo, . in AucWandi . according'.to Mr. Newman, .'.. there is a'youth who has developed the ■principle: of :■ sending messages:- through. ;. ■ the air : on origmal lines. He tapii the ,t . Pioneer's dispatches and oommumcations. though, of course, owing ty the Admiralty oypher'i'he can. make neither ■ head nor tail of them. Mr. Nevrman is informed that the . lad has r evolved tlie mechanism from his own ideas, and somp'of crude,-but heis anxious to interview : the (youth >wit-h , . : a vioivall - fi'osh ; developments -in "wireless',' ... havo Ho bo reported, to tho' authorities. .' "Thero may-be something good .in .'it, !I '-. S lie 'said,. "and,: if,, so j -the; .Admiralty :, would bo anxious,to secure it."- .At the ■. ; same .time, Mr. Newman will, impress. - on the lad that ho must--not interfere v . with the Pioneer's work by cominum; .<> eating with-.her or tapping .;her" messages.'.. ;.. -... vyv