ETHEREAL CHAOS.
A Rill has been brought before the United, States Senate providing that all American wireless telegraphy station*, private and commercial, shall be licensed and m charge ef licensed operators. .'■ The Bill is tho outoome of complaints from the naval 'ijtrid. military services. The craze for wireless telegraphy has led to the formation" of many companies and to the growth of a great ar^ny of amateur operators, ranging from, school* boys to wealthy . experimenters, who, have establishe4 p,P\verful stations,. The amatqursV increasing activity tencls, tP f produce . "ethereal' chaos.' They interfere with State messages, exercise their ingenuity m tapping despatches, and 'in- -not a few cases have created great confusion by issuing false messages. On one- occasion a revenue cutter was despatched to sea m a storm, to look for a - shipwreck m response' to a message frqni some amateur's static
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)
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142ETHEREAL CHAOS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)
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