Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1910 — ONE-MINUTE WIRELESS. [ARTICLE]

ONE-MINUTE WIRELESS.

Men Who Can Put Up Portable 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. There is more to opening a wireless station than hauling the apparatus from the wagon. It means erecting a mast 40 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 antennse 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 source of pow'er. When the first portable wireless was made in this country a few years ago a 60-foot mast was required, demanding a complicated system of guys, 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, Va., 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.—Popular Mechanics.