AMERICAN RADIOS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1919, Page 8

AMERICAN RADIOS.

TWO MONSTER STATIONS. WORLD'S GREATEST AT BORDEAUX i With the ending of the war some facts i about the uses to which the great radio station at the United States Naval Academy has been put have been permitted to be made public for the first time. It is still the largest and most powerful station in the world, the station which is being erected in France by the United States not having been completed, and the plant here is the great sending station of the Government in connection with its long distance radio service.

The station in France is at Bordeaux. It was understood that this had been completed and in use, but it will not be finished for several months. It will be known as the Lafayette station, and it is probable that it will be turned over to France for the cost of construction.

The tremendous power of the station in Franco is indicated by a comparison in a physical way with the Annapolis station. The station here is based upon four steel towers, each 600 ft high. The station in France is based upon eight towers, each 850 ft high. In fact, the range of the new station will be practically without limit, and should exceed by thousands of miles that of any other station.

It is stated that practically all the order to United States naval vessels in every part of the world have been sent through Annapolis. In addition messages have been sent to diplomatic representatives and officers of the army in England, France, and Italy. It was an object in constructing the station, aside from the purpose of communicating with the ships of the navy, to make communications with the army absolutely independent of the cables, and beyond the possibility of interference from other radio systems. The Annapolis station has also communicated with the stations at Panama and at Honolulu. The latter is believed to be the greatest range which radio communication has yet obtained. Messages were sent daily to the George Washington during the trip of the President and his party to France.

It is possible that the completion of the station in France will make a circuit of the earth possible. The Annapolis station has sent messages to Rome, on the one side, and to Honolulu, on the other. America has stations at Guam and in the Philippines. The latter station is not powerful enough to send messages to Rome, which would complete the round, but it is highly probable that the new station in "France might communicate with the station in the Philippines. Certainly, the circuit will be completed in a comparatively short, time by the erection of some station or stations between these points.