WELLINGTON'S WIRELESS STATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 4

WELLINGTON'S WIRELESS STATION.

« WHY OX THE TINAKORI HILLS. The statement which has gone forth that Wellington is to have a high-power wireless station to be erected on the Tinakori Hills is hardly correct. The original scheme of wireless telegraphy for New Zealand provided for two high-power stations (at Doubtless Bay and the Bluff), and lour low-power stations at convenient centres. A high-power station at Wellington would bo altogether superfluous, as its radius of operations would overlap and interfere with the working of tho other two etations at the country's extremities. Wellington is still to have its low-power station, but it lias been found that the best results cannot be obtained in the centre of the town—the bottom of the basin formed by the hills of Wellington—as it. has been found that the intervening mountain ranges prevent communication, or makes it very uncertain, with vessels close at hand, in Cook Strait on the one hand, and on the East Coast on the other. This defect is not so acutely felt when the vessel is some hundreds of miles away, but for thoso proccedine along the coasfs messages do not carry nearly so well. A clear "get-away is an essential factor in wireless telegraphy, and for that reason it has been decided to transfer tho low-power station from the General Post Uffice to a position on the highest point 6f tho Tinakori Range, immediately above the metal miarry that scars the hillside- above Georgo Street. There buildings will bo erected for the safe housing of the electrical machintrv, the motor, and offices and sleeping apartments for the staff. The wires will be erected on poles 150 ft. in height, and, approximately, a hundred yards anart. The station will be connected with the General Post Office by telephone-.