WIRELESS AND WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1717, 7 April 1913, Page 5

WIRELESS AND WAR.

_4_ .. • EXPERIMENTS IN THE FIELD. During last'' .week '.'some - interesting experiments with a Tolofuukon field wireless set liavo been (jiven under tho supervision of Mr. <Uiigcii« Reinlffird, llro representative of the Australian Wireless Company, which .bundles tho Telcfmiken patents in Australasia. Tho first demon- ' Btration wns giVeii btffore n' mimber of Government -telegraph officials who aro either engaged in wireless j.work"or'.arp interested in it officially; This look pinto at Ander-. son Park.' There the little set, which!, only weighs 5001b. altogether, (and may be 'transported by four horses or twelve men) was placed iv position, tho single steel pipe mast, GOft., . in . height. was . screwed together, and its umbrclla-snaped aerial wns soon spread to catch "tho message, of the air." A six-wire counterpoiso was also laid out oil the ground. Two oft tlie men from tho oflico mounted tbo in cycle-liko scats,' ami 1 with their peddling set'the dynamo whirring,' which prodiicedjcliougb elcetrical energy to send messages ' ont. : Communication was ;at once established with tbo Mount El also wireless -station, and n perfectly clear nolo was lieard in response. On Thursday another demonstration of tbo sot was given before the Acting-Min-ister for Dt-i'iuicc (the Hon. 11.' H. Rhodes), General Godley, njitt Colonel Heard. An oni tile day before, - communication was obtained' with tho AVoUiiißthi wireless Elation, and also ■ with tho Ulimaroa in tho harbour as soon as Ihe "peddlars got lo work. The set is said to lie cffectivo up to 50 miles, under favourable conditions. .... , Mr. Roinbnrd states that tho set exhibitcil is similar to (he onea which have lH>en used in the field right through tho Balkan AVnr, chieflv by ' the Bnlcars, Greeks, and Sorbs. Tho TeMunken Compnnv lias also supplied a number of field wireless sots to tho German, Russian, am? American Army authorities,