Gunnison Gazette | 1916-12-22 | Page 7 | Open Wireless to Japan

OPEN WIRELESS TO JAPAN Service Recently Inaugurated Has Total To-tal Mileage of 5,442 With One Relay. Wireless service between Japan and the United States by way of Honolulu was inaugurated on November 15. The route betn'jis at the San Francisco transmitting station at F.olinas ridge, just 2,087 miles from the Hawaiian wireless station at Kalmka. The mileage mile-age from Honolulu to Fiennbnshi, near Tokio, to 3,:x5 miles, and the total mileage of the service is T,442 with but the one relay. This is understood to he the longest distance over which commercial wireless messages have ever been sent. The Marconi company announces two classes of service between be-tween California and Japan. The full rate or expedited service at 80 cents a word, a reduction of 41 cents a word from the existing rates, and a deferred half-rate service at 40 cents a word. The lowest" cable rate at present is 51.121 a word. Philadelphia Commercial Commer-cial Museum Letter.