39 “NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
April 14, 1916. 
Fine Amateur Wireless Station 
High Power Plant of Joseph Dodge, Manchester Young Man, Is One Of Best In New pean Has 
Been Designated As Government Reserve Station 
NE of the 
best equip- 
ped amateur 
wireless sta- 
tions in New 
England is 
located in 
Manchester. 
Ties et tae 
property and 
pride of Jos- 
eph Dodge, 
a Story High 
School boy, 
who has at- 
tracted con- 
siderable at- 
tention through this achievments in 
the development of his station. Mr. 
Dodge’s wireless station was recently 
designated by the United States Navy 
department as one of the ten radio 
reserve stations in New England. As 
there are several hundred amateur 
stations in New England the honor 
conferred on the Manchester young 
man is no slight recognition of his 
ability. 
Over 250 feet above the sea level, 
1000 feet in the rear of his home on 
School st., is one end of the ‘“an- 
tenna’”’ of the wireless equipment. It 
is attached to the top of the stand- 
pipe on Powder House Hill and runs 
to a pole on the roof of the house. 
It is the highest antenna in this vi- 
cinity and is stretched in an east and 
west direction, enabling the operator 
to catch “waves” out of the air from 
a tremendous distance. It is con- 
sidered the equal as a receiving station 
of any in this country, including the 
commercial and United States naval 
stations. Owing to the government 
restrictions upon amateurs the send- 
ing end of the epuipment is not as 
powerful as commercial stations, al- 
though Mr. Dodge has talked with 
stations in New York state and New 
Jersey. 
A BREEZE reporter visited the sta- 
tion one night recently and perhaps 
an account of what he saw will give 
an idea of the degree of development 
of the station. To begin with, he 
knew no more about the operation of 
the station than the average person, 
so that what he saw, heard and learn- 
ed will be told in anything but the 
technical terms applied to the usual 
description of scientific instruments. 
The long wire which forms the 
antenna to the top of the standpipe 
JOSEPH DODGE 
was broken in the storm of last Sat- 
urday and repairs were being com- 
pleted to the apparatus when the visit 
was made. After a few minutes test- 
ing of the instruments the’ young 
operator sat down and commenced 
“tuning” his apparatus to the ‘wave 
length” of the high-power European 
stations. (More of the “wave length’ 
later). Almost instantly the head set, 
which resembles that worn by a tele- 
phone operator, began to buzz. The 
reporter adjusted the set to his ears. 
Clearly and musically came the dots 
and dashes of the “Continental” code. 
Mr. Dodge again listened. It was the 
big German wireless station at E1l- 
vese. Somebody was sending a com- 
mercial message. The contents of 
the radiogram will never be known 
in Manchester for two very sufficient 
reasons. The first reason is that a 
message must never be repeated by an 
amateur, which is one of the restric- 
tions the government places upon him, 
and the other reason is that the me:- 
sage was not in English, which is of 
itself sufficient guarantee of its se- 
crecy. Changing the “pitch” of his 
instruments, Mr. Dodge listened to 
the station at Nauen, near Berlin. 
Glace Bay, Cape Breton, was the next 
spot visited that evening by wireless. 
Then Sayville, L.. 1; the German sta- 
tion in America, was heard. A mo- 
ment later Key West in Florida was 
picked up and a short time later San 
Francisco chimed in. The man 
across the continent was using a send- 
ing machine and the words were com- 
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pieces will then be no longer a neces- 
sary part of the equipment. It will 
be possible to stand in the room be- 
low, or outside the building and re- 
ceive messages. <A little ways back 
we mentioned the receipt of the San- 
Franciso message at so rapid a rate 
that it was impossible to follow it. 
Mr. Dodge has a method of taking 
care of such messages, which is used 
in all big stations. He has a.record- 
ing apparatus, like a phonograph, 
which receives the dots and dashes on 
a wax record, which can be preserved. 
Mr. Dodge explained the working 
of the receiving and sending appar- 
atus, and how it is possible to listen 
to any station by ascertaining its 
“wave length” and tuning his instrst- 
ments to receive waves of that length. 
The current sent out by a station, 
MR. DODGE’S WIRELESS 
ROOM 
