WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1050, 13 February 1911, Page 5

WIRELESS.

"> A" WORLDS RECORD. By Telccrap^—P«s« Awnclatcoa—Copyright, ' ' , (Rec.; February 12, 5.5 ,p.m.) ( ' New YT)'rk, February 11.-, ; The .world's wireless.record, has, been received at the Sim Francisco stationfrom tho steamer Korea, .while 4492 miles out. '-." ;■ '.. : . t ■'; ' " . ATLANTIC LINER OUT OF I TOUCH WITH LAND. ■ The London "Daily.Mail" recently received ' tho • following telegram via ■ the Marconi Wireless Telegraph .Company:— "White Star Liner. Cedrlc"Havo refitted with powerful wireless apparatus.' -In communication with tho English and French coast at 1250 : miles' .distance, and also withvFlores.lsland.on tljree successive days--AW have-been in communication with the European nnd American coast overy day of the passage and are now 1140 miles from New York. This is the first occasion on which! a liner has been in- continual communication with both coasts whilo crossing 'the Atlantic. The ordinary Marconi' apparatus in use in most liners has a radius of about 350 miles, so that when a ship is more than that distance from tho shore she must rely on other vessels to' 'relays , • her messages to land."' ,'■ " ■ ; In September last Mr. Marconi, using r kitn to carry aloft his "aoriaU" transmitted a message" 3500 miles from 'on board ship. This, howevei, was accomplished with an apparatus only capable of use in calm weather, and the performance could not be repeated .on tho following day, . ■ - ,' : , : -.' -..'•