Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1910 — ONE MINUTE WIRELESS. [ARTICLE]

ONE MINUTE WIRELESS.

Uncle Sam’* Trained Men Can Pnt Up Station In That Time. “There Is no other country with a trained squad of men possessed of apparatus which can be taken from a wagon, set up and put in operation, capable of sending a wireless message twenty-five miles and occupying one minute and eight seconds only from the time of command, ‘Halt, open station!’ to the first buzz of the wireless wave-producing spark,” says Popular Mechanics. “There Is more to opening a wireless station than hauling the apparatus from the wagon. It means erecting a mast forty feet high, spreading for 150 feet each four stranded wires which perform the double purpose of holding up the mast and of serving as the antennas of the wireless set, spreading another smaller set of insulated wire at the base of the mast for a ‘ground’ and connecting the instruments and the sources of power. “When the first portable wireless was made In this country a few years ago a sixty-foot mast was requjred, demanding a complicated system of guyß, a troublesome ground and several hundred feet radius of clear space for the erection of the station. The writer well remembers seeing the first tests of erecting this mast at Fort Myer, Virginia, and thinking that a hostile force would have little trouble finding time to demolish such an outfit during the three-quarters of an hour it took to get it in working order.”