NEW WIRELESS RECORD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 82, 6 April 1918, Page 16

NEW WIRELESS RECORD.

The announcement that Italy and the United States have recently been connected by wireless telegraphy deserves more notice than it has received. This achievement probably makes a backnumber of the great wireless station at Nauen, near Berlin, which has been so useful to Germany, and which, when the war broke out, claimed to be the most powerful in the world, with an effective range of between 5,000 and 0,000 miles. From the nearest point in Italy to the United States Transatlantic station at Arlington, near Washington, is not less than 6,200 miles, and to send an intelligible message across that distance might be more than even Nauen could accomplish. Owing to the hostility between the ether waves which carry wireless messages and sunshine, it is always easier to send messages long distances in northerly latitudes than in those more south, and the power required to cover a given distance increases with nearness to the equator. The witeless route between Rome and Arlington is for a good part of the way at least 800 miles nearer to the equator than that bet _' e T* Nauen and the United States, which fact considerably adds to tho achievement of the Italian and American experts.