Daily Post Hobart 1911-1913 Richard Rogers, VK7RO 1998-2002 11/9/11 p4 Cables and Wireless - aus-NZ cable Wellington and Bluff wireless stations 26/9/11 p4 Wireless for SS Westralia - The SS Westralia which left Hobart yesterday for Sydney, will lie up at that port, where she is to be fitted with a wireless installation before returning. The work will be carried out by the Australasian Wireless Company, which has installed the system on a large number of vessels flying the Huddart, Parker flag. This will almost complete the installation of wireless on the steamers of this line, and as the Union Steamship Company is having its vessels fitted one by one, while practically all the main boats that call here are fitted with wireless, the need of a station at Hobart becomes more apparent day by day. 6/10/11 p3 Wireless Telegraphy - In the course of a few months there will not be a steamer of any size in Australian waters that is not equipped with wireless telegraphy, . . . [Hobart needs station] 9/10/11 p4 Useful Proposal for Wireless - wireless operator on USS mail liner Marama suggests "time sharing" with Navy to avoid interference 11/10/11 p4 Wireless Telegraphy - question in parliament re Tasmanian station 13/10/11 p4 Wireless and a Hobart Station 14/10/11 p3 The Mawson Expedition 20/10/11 Tasmanian Wireless Station Devonport station offered to PMG - PMG no due to insufficient range 21/10/11 Telephone pair to NW coast 23/10/11 Edison Bioscope at Victoria Hall Dr Mawsons Expedition - After several months of negotiation Dr Mawson has succeeded in securing a complete system of wireless for his expedition to the Antarctic. The Australasian Wireless Company has agreed to provide two stations - one at the expedition main base in Adele (sic) Land and the other at Macquarie Island. Messages from the Antarctic will be transmitted to Macquarie Island, and repeated from there to a station to be erected in Tasmania, probably on the south coast. Wireless Stations World 1400? p6 Wireless Stations - Australias Total 28 - Melb Fri The Federal Government has spent two years in partly establishing two wireless stations, twenty-six private stations have been erected, and equipped in the Commonwealth according to a return presented in the Senate. Two stations have been established in Victoria, 22 in New South Wales and on in King Island and one in South Australia. 2/11/11 p6 Wireless in Antarctica - decided to establish wireless stations in Antarctica and Macquarie Island 7/11/11 p4 The Antarctic Expedition 9/11/11 p5 Dr Mawsons Expedition - scientific stuff Prospectus - Hydro Electric Power and Metallurgical Co 10/11/11 p2 Dr Mawsons Expedition - Arrangements for Wireless Stations - Macquarie & Cape Adare 1 3/8 KW 1200mi by day 2- 3000mi by night T.Sawyer to Macquarie W.Hannam to Cape Adare cost 4000 pounds awaiting Hobart station p7 Macquarie Island - interview with Hatch 11/11/11 p8 DME 13/11/11 p2 DME 15/11/11 p4 Federal Wireless Station - Balsillie going to Sydney to take over p6 DME 17/11/11 p4 Antarctic Exploration Value of Wireless 18/11/11 p5 News by "Wireless" - interview with H.V.Thompson, wireless operator on USS Moeraki (in Hobart) p11 DME 21/11/11 p6 Antarctic Expedition - Dr M's preparations Question of Wireless - The Tasmanian Station Dr Douglas Mawson, leader of the Antarctic Expedition, interviewed the PostMaster-General this afternoon regarding his own project to maintain communication with Australia by a series of wireless stations, one on the Antarctic continent, and one on Macquarie Island, to connect with one in the southern part of Tasmania. Mr Frazer, in reply, said he has not been able to definitely promise when the Southern Tasmanian station should be erected, but informed Dr Mawson that when a start was made with the Commonwealth Governments wireless scheme, the Tasmanian station would be one of the first to receive attention. The greatest possible expedition would be used. 22/11/11 p4 Wireless Stations for Tasmania 24/11/11 p4 Wireless Telegraphy wireless station for Hobart necessary 27/11/11 p2 DME service at cathedral 28/11/11 p7 Southward Bound Dr Mawsons Lecture 29/11/11 p4 Wireless Telegraphy Marine Board re necessity 2/12/11 p11 To the Antarctic Toroa departs today 4/12/11 p3 (Monday) Goodbye Aurora departed 4pm Saturday 6/12/11 Wireless Pacofic record Japan - California 9/12/11 p8 Wireless Telegraphy Commonwealth statement not pay? Marconi & Telefunken Melbourne then Hobart 11/12/11 p5 Marconi v Telefunken 22/11/11 p5 Wireless Stations - Apparatus ordered expert leaves for Hobart more officers wanted 29/11/11 p3 Wireless Telegraphy - Marine Board - letter from Federal Parliament? 30/11/11 p5 Wireless Telegraphy - Marconi Las Palmas open - Marconi v Telefunken p7 Dr Mawsons Expedition - re lecture 4/12/11 p4 Goodbye Aurora 6/12/11 p3 Wireless Pacific Record - San Francisco to Japan 7/12/11 p3 Mawsons Expedition - Toroa sails today 8/12/11 p3 Mawsons Expedition - Departure of Toroa 9/12/11 p3 Mawsons Expedition p8 Wireless Telegraphy - Australian stations - Melbourne first, then Hobart - Balsillie 11/12/11 p5 Wireless MvT Dec19-31 not on film 4/1/12 p3 Wireless Station at Hobart - no objection to Queen's Domain 16/1/12 p5 The Wireless Chain - Hobart Station Next Month - Melbourne, Monday. As soon as the Melbourne station is completed about the end of this month, the experts will go to Hobart and erect a station there. . . . 300 mi by day, 1000 mi by night 17/1/12 p5 Wireless Legislation - Writ by Marconi Co against Huddart Parker and A W Co 22/1/12 p3? Wireless - The Melbourne Station - On verge of completion Melb Sun Good progress . . . 29/1/12 p3 A Wireless Record ship near Melbourne to Persian Gulf 30/1/12 p3 Wireless Telegraphy - mr Laird Smith MHR has been informed by the Minister for Home Affairs that he has authorised the erection of a mast for the wireless telegraphy station at Hobart 1/2/12 p4? Dr Mawsons Expedition - Macquarie Island heard 7/2/12 p3 Amundsen Expedition due soon 8/2/12 p3 New Wireless Service - Opens in Melbourne on Monday Melbourne, Wednesday. The new wireless system which will first operate from Melbourne is to be opened on Monday to the public. Messages for ships at sea will first have to be sent to Melbourne. The charge fixed is tenpence per word of which the post office will take sixpence and the ship communicated with fourpence. 9/2/12 p3 Hobart and Wireless Telegraphy - PMG announces Melbourne open & gear on way to Hobart 10/12/12 p3 Commonwealth Wireless - The Official Opening The Governor General's message to Admiral King-Hall on HMS Drake in/near Hobart was not received until 8pm 12/2/12 p4? Melbourne Wireless Station HMS Drake & King Island 15/2/12 p3 Wireless and Lightning re Hotel Australia station 17/2/12 p? Macquarie Island Wireless message received 21/2/12 p3 Wireless and the Mawson Expedition MQ Is heard in Sydney 22/2/12 p3 Macquarie Island Wireless constant communications 27/2/12 p3 Wireless Station in Bush experimenter at Noradjulia 8/3/12 p5 Polar Success Amundsen and Scott 9/3/12 p7 Wireless Telegraphy - Linking the Empire - Marconi Tender Accepted . . . 11/3/12 conquest of South Pole 13/3/12 p5 South Polar Research return of Aurora 14/3/12 p3 Weather Reports from Macquarie Island Imperial Wireless Chain p6 Hobart Wireless Station to be ready in a fortnight details of plant lengthy report electricity form local supply 15/3/12 With the Aurora 16/3/12 p3 Wireless Telegraphy Record Hotel Australia worked M Is Macquarie Island to Suva 2348 mi 2KW 19/3/12 p3 The Wireless Station mast raising 184 feet 16 tons 5KW 20/3/12 letters Domain Encroachments whittle away the heritage of the people p3 The Wireless Station mast raising concluded 25/3/12 p6 Boycott of the Daily Post Labor paper? 30/3/12 p3 Opening of the Wireless Station on April 12th WTS Crawford lately Postmaster at Georgetown assisted by C King late operator of Westralia 12/4/12 Opening of Wireless Station postponed? now 24th? 13/4/12 Commonwealth Wireless - Marconi Chain 23/4/12 The Titanic Tragedy 30/4/12 Wireless Station PMG stated not intended to have an official opening Station is now open 4/5/12 Hobart Wireless Station working spendidly Suva 3500 mi??? 15/5/12 p4 Wireless Warnings Arrangements are being made to use the wireless stations in Melbourne and Hobart and those to be erected at Brisbane, Port Moresby, Thursday Island, Adelaide, Darwin, Sydney and Fremantle, to warn mariners of the approach of tempestuous weather. This will need a larger staff at the stations now provided at Melbourne and Hobart, but the Federal Government has already signified its intention of providing an all-day and all-night wireless service. The minister for Home Affairs has arranged with the Postal Department for the Commonwealth Meteorologist to despatch wireless messages to vessels whenever he has reasons to believe that abnormally bad weather is approaching their route. 10/6/12 p4 Wireless Operators needed for Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, Thursday Island amd Port Moresby 12/6/12 p4 Hobart Wireless Station The Hobart wireless station reported yesterday that the following vessels were in communication ... [3] ... and the Aurora at Macquarie Island. 13/6/12 p4 Hobart Wireless Station The local wireless station reported yesterday that the following steamers were in communication ... [5] ... and the Macquarie Island station. 13/6/12 p4 Prevention of Wireless "Cross-Talk" It was mentioned recently by the Postmaster General (Mr Fraser) that experiments were being conducted at Adelaide in connection with the erection of a wireless station, with the view to preventing "cross-talk" or the interference of stations with each other when messages are being despatched. The Commonwealth wireless expert (Mr J G Balsillie) is in charge of the experiments, which are a continuation of those undertaken by him at Hobart recently. The PMG is anxious? that his department emulate the Admiralty which declares that it has abolished cross-talk in connection with its wireless service. Mr Fraser is confident that the Commonwealth system is of such a nature that the Treasurer will never be troubled by legal onslaughts. 14/7/12 p4 Hobart Wireless Station The Hobart wireless station reported being in communication with the following steamers yesterday . . . [9 steamers] . . . and the Macquarie Island station. 15/7/12 p4 Hobart Wireless Station The Hobart wireless station reported that the following steamers were in communication:- Orsova, RMS, from Melbourne to Adelaide . . . [etc 9] . . . and Macquarie Island station. 3/7/13 p4 Hobart Wireless Station The Hobart wireless station reports last night that the following ships were within range . . . [list 19]. Communication was also established with the land station at Macquarie Island. 7/7/13 p4 as for 3/7/13, but 19 ships 8/7/13 p4 as for 3/7/13, but 10 ships 10/7/13 p4 as for 3/7/13, but 15 ships