WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1694, 10 March 1913, Page 4

WIRELESS.

A PROGRESS REPORT. The Australian Wireless Company, representing the Telefunken Wireless' Company, has now practically completed its contract for the construction of tho liigli-IMW-er station at Awanui, near .tho North Caps. Government officers are at present testing the installation with the wireless stations at tho Bluff and at Pennant Hills Sydney. Tho tests will continuo from' limo to time for .several weeks, and under varying atmospheric condition*. Tl.e high-power station at -the Blufl' is not yet sufficiently advanced to enablo messages to bo sent, but tho receiving apparatus is in working order. The contract price for the Awanui and Bluff stations is wC23,000.

Tho Government has acquired a site for a low-power station at l'nrolonga. The question of installing wireless there will be considered later on—when tho work now in hand is completed. ladings nro lieing erected at tho Uiatham Islands for a W-power fetation there, and tho musts will bo shipped to the islands shortly.

In view of lire fact that New Zealand will almost immediately have in workin" order two high-power stations—one at each end of the Dominion—and with a central station already in operation at Wellington. II; is not considered noeo«sary to have an installation on tho West Coast of the South Island, as wa.s at or® time in contemplation. Tho distances reached by tho existing stations will 1m quite suflicient for all purposes; in fact to put another station on the West Coast would only confuse the operators at tho tlires other places. Tho Wellington station is doing good work, and, under favourable conditions, has communicated with Jlacquario Island, Melbourne, Sydney, and Fiji.