WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3394, 27 January 1920, Page 6

WIRELESS EXPERIMENTS.

——————o———- % VISIT OF FRENCH EXPERT.

TESTS IN PACIFIC OCEAN.

V The French war sloop Aldcbaran, which is being used by the‘ French Government to enable Lieutenant Guierrz, ' :1 wireless experf, to conduct a number lof experiments in wireless tui('sgl'aph_V from various points in the P.-mifia, h~:s I'r-turned to Auckland after a Lhree V-v'c(.l<’S trip in the vicinity of ('hn{ll=lm. and Bounty Islands, these two places are almost the exact nntipo-ins oi Lyons and I\’antes. l.ieutenmlt Guierre ‘also made some experim-en's at the Wireless stations at Bluff and Awa--1 rua. g A great deal of scientific vuul-3 is!‘ attached to the work of I.i—3lte,n..nt Guierre, who will submit the re;-=u‘.ts of his experiments to the Int:“1.-v,':‘.(‘n—--3.1 Wireless Conference, to be h'~‘.l(l tin’

VVashing=t-on next April. ‘She C:;.pC.“i-I ments are highly technical in c... 1 1:: £lo2‘. Discussing the matter, Lienrmzutr Guierre ~sta.ted that the ‘\'il'J[l3sS "re-“ ception” from French insfr'lmen*.s in! New Zealand was of special in‘.-:rc.~;'-t to Continental experts, as New Zea- ' land was practically the antip')r.les' of France. On the voyage to I-le;v dealand Lieutenant» Gruierrc mcas-1~:ed, wherever possible, the strength of the “reception.” Experimerrts of ihis

kind had been. made previously by an| American expert named Austin, but the I present was the first time that a com prehensive system of measurements, had been adopted. Lieutenant Guierre said his experiments in the Southern Pacific had been been hampered to some extent by bad weather, and part"ly because of the shortness of time at the disposal: of the visitors. The reIceptive power of the ‘wireless stations’ ‘in the South Island was infinitely: greater ‘than that possessed by the northern stations. This was partly due I: to climatic conditions, and partly to ;'

, magnetic influences. It was found that a spot near Antipodes Island had a receptive power equal to that of the Mediterranean. Lieutenant Guicrre said he hoped the experiments he was carrying out would prove of value to New Zealand. ' Probably the Aldebaran will proceed ; to Awanui to make tests at the wire- ? less station at that place. Subsequently Noumea and Ta.-hiti will be visited, with a View to‘ the construction of French wireless stations there. I The chief engineer of the Telegraph} Department at Auckland, and members of his staff, visited the Aldebaran, and 3 were greatly interested in the work of Lieutenant Guierre. The latter was in! pcharge of a large station near Oran, in Algeria, in pre-war days. During; the war he was attached to a sub-' marine base in the Adriatic, near Brindis}. He is a graduate of the famous’ Wireless and electrical school in Paris, I from which he was drafted into the; naval £O-recs.