Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1914 — GET WIRELESS BY BEDSPRING [ARTICLE]

GET WIRELESS BY BEDSPRING

Eastern Amateur Experiments With a Novel Form of Antennae and * Is Successful., | Cyrus H. Fladreaux of Peekskill, N. Y., gives the following interesting account of his experiments with a novel form of antennae for wireless telegraphy: “There are many things used as antennae to catch the mysterious electric waves which carry our wireless messages through spade, and I find that the springs of my bpd serve as very efficient antennae. My room Is on the second story of my house, and by using these springs as antennae I can easily read the signals sent out every night by the wireless station at Sayville, L. 1., although they are not by any means so loud as when I use my outdoor antennae, which are 40 feet above ground, 60 feet long and consists of four wires on spreaders, the wires being two feet apart “The bedspring antennae are best for use with nearby high power stations. Sayville, L. 1., ls ( abdut fifty miles from Peekskill. With my outdoor antennae I continually hear the Arlington (Va.) naval station when It sends out the corrected tlme signals at 11:55 a. m. and at 9:55 p. m.; also the weather reports, Brooklyn navy yard; New London, Conn.; Cape Cod and others, including amateur stations too numerous to mention. “I have an all-’round good apparatus. I hold a station license and an operator’s license, both Issued by the United States government My official call is 2 V U.”