FIELD WIRELESS PLANTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 27 March 1913, Page 4

FIELD WIRELESS PLANTS.

SEND MESSAGES' FIFTY MILES. Visiting Wellington at present is lir. Eugene Rei'qhard," whp is"superintending' (hp erection of the two high-power wireless telegraph stations on behalf of tlio contractors, tho '.Australasian . Wireless Company (whp hold thp' 'rights qf (hp rolpfunkpji Cpmpany 'fflf 4lVstTali« aijd Now Zeialand). Mr. Reinhard has just completed tho crection of the hig|i : ppwer station at Awanui, near tho North Cape, a station which will be able to communicate, with S.Y'slpey dlH'ing til? t|ay r time and 'ji' muiih'lpngey distppco'af nighttime. Much of the preliminary worli at (he Bli)(T hqs already been doiie, but the machiniiry has ypt tp be set nil an<l 400 ft. tq bp 'greeted., Pm'ing liis stay ill Wellington, Mr. Reinhard will give demonstrations to the officials pf flip Postal aiid Defence Dppqrtmeiits of {1(0 'portable figld wireless sb't, which is caiwblo of sending messages for a distance of 50 miles. The power"for driving the dynamo is'ohtaincd with <v bicycle attachment, worked by a man precisely as if ho were riding a cycle. The whole outfit can be carried by' thrpp papk hprsps. The, set iiicludrw tclescoped' steel pipo 'masts,' 'which 6uj>port tho aerials. . - 1 Respecting the new station at Awanui, testing experiments'which will be 'conducted o\-cr a number of weeks are now being made. Three tests will be parried out with tho co-operation of tho Comi'nonwealth GoTOrnment station at Pennant Hills (near Sydney), tho contract with the Australian Wireless Company including a fuarantep of daylight communication \yith Australia. For that' purpdsp a member of tho Governriicnt wireless ticlegi'apli staff (Mr. Davis) has been sent aoross to tho Pennant Hills fully seized of thq manner in which thp tests will be conducted at Awarnii. '