WIRELESS PHONE
IS BIG SUCCESS
IN FORESTS
MISSOULA, Mont., Jan. 13 (by As
sociated Press).—The wireless tele
phone, as a result of a season’s try
out, during which the handicaps of
“packing” instruments over a thirty
mile mountainous trail, the peril? of
passing through a forest fire, and nu
merous other tests were applied, has
been pronounced a success for forest
service work by officials of the serv
ice, according to an announcement
from district headquarters here.
Hereafter, the announcement says,
wireless telephone instruments are to
be a part of the standard equipment
of the forest service.
At the direction of Chief Forester
William S. Graves, tests of this plan
of communication were initiated in
this district last season by R. B. Ad
ams, telephone engineer, who was as
sisted by Everett Cutting. United
States signal corps standard sets were
selected for the experiment, and one
was placed in position, after almost
interminable difficulties, at the Mud
creek ranger station, near the Lolo
Hot Springs, Mont., and another at
Beaver Ridge, Idaho.
While the air line distance between
the two stations is but twelve miles,
the distance by trail is thirty miles,
much of it almost impassable even
with pack animals. At last, however,
after mishaps that included pack
horses off the trail, packs displaced
and rolling down mountainsides, and
batteries and equipment all but lost,
venient pines.
“The sets were used during the fire
the antennae were hung high on con
season of 1919 in reporting fires and
otherwise in the carrying on of the
fire campaign, with eminently satis
factory results,” says the forest serv
ice statement.
The real test came during 'the de
structive forest fires in the Clear
water forest, in northern Idaho.
“Over ninety miles of ordinary tele
phone line was destroyed,” the state
ment says. “The trees from which
wire was suspended were burned. Tel
ephone communication was thus end
ed and the efficiency of the fire-fight
ing organization correspondingly re
duced. It took over a week to restore '1
this communication.”
In marked contrast was the effect
of fires sweeping near wireless sta
tions. With the flames dangerously
near the Beaver Ridge station, the op
erator promptly transferred the entire
equipment to a hastily-constructed log
raft which he put afloat on a near-by
lake, navigated to a safe distance from
the shore, and awaited the passing of
the fire. After the front had passed
he returned to shore, set up his equip
ment, and within an hour was making
a report of the cause of the interrup
tion to communication.
While the sending radius of the
sets used was not great, the receiving
power was practically unlimited, the
statement says, and wireless tele
graph messages from many distant
points were picked up. Perhaps the
Beaver Ridge station was the first
plaie in the inter-mountain territory,
it is stated, to know that Admiral Rod
man’s flagship had safeley passed
throogh the Panama canal. The for
est service observer, there in the
mohntain wilderness, picked hp the
naval radio message announcing that
fact.
Equipment of the experimental sta
tions necessarily was rather crude in
some respects. Field tents, with ker
osene ianters for illumination at night,
afforded the only protection against
the hot sun and the sometimes hotter
wind, bearing the breath of the forest
fires.
The chief practical difficulty en
countered in the operating of the sets,
it is declared, was the trouble experi
enced in obtaining sufficient power.
After numerous experiments 270 dry
batteries, in series, were employed to
furnish the requisite power. Gaso
line engines, windmills, or various
forms of hydro-electric power develop
ment are possibilities in this connec
tion, it is esserted, depending on local
conditions.
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