WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
A NEW DETECTOR. Received March 1, 9.25 a.m. SYDNEY. March 1. The operator who received H.M.S. Powerful's message on Friday again picked up the flagship last night lying in Auckland Harbour. Some of the messages were indistinct, but two—one of abput a dozen words—were received about 11.26 o'clock. The successful experimenter is Mr Pike, of the Works Department. Mr Heskett, Chief Electrical Engineer, considers Mr Pike's detector will prove valuable as a means of extending the range of given plant with a given expenditure of energy. Mr Pike's use of an aerial wire only fifty feet high showed that great aerial height was not essential to the successful receiving of wireless messages. A noticeable- fact in connection with Mr Pike's apparatus, was that the best results were obtaned late at night. That tallied with the experiences of the Naval authorities.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 984, 2 March 1910, Page 5
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142WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 984, 2 March 1910, Page 5
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