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Show PUTS POCATELLO IN TOUCH WITH THE WORLD BY WIRELESS Farrell Young, High School Student, Builds and Operates Station of His Own. After two years of experimenting and study Farrell Young, 16 years oi age, has completed a wireless outlit and he is now receiving messages and listening to dashes that come from points about 'the country as far as sli ips on the Paeilic. ocean. Every electrical detail of his entire sending send-ing and receiving outlit was set up J by him and for the most part all the apparatus was made by his own hands, under the direction of some .good hooks. lie is now a second j grade amateur operator, anil is to receive re-ceive his license in a short time as a result of a government examination examina-tion that is given to all operators. Uses Spare Moments. ' Farrell is a student of the Pocatello Poca-tello high school, and in his spare moments he is a deep student of things electrical. His laboratory on I South Second street, in the rear of this home, shows the curious reporter that his work has not been for naught. lie has a large aerial strung from a barn and the housetop 54 feet in height, and this adequate antenna, an-tenna, which is made of four wires : 90 feet long, and spread apart so as to receive the waves as they come in, is strong enough to get the longer and greater sound waves that come for several hundred miles. I His laboratory is equipped with a key, transformer, and receiving apparatus, ap-paratus, with all the necessary electrical elec-trical devices for the sending and receiving of messages over the wire-t wire-t less. In a short time a message is I sent out of the little shop amid a splutter and crash of blue (lame. The young man is not alone in the city with a wireless outfit. Philip Samms, another young man, is the l owner of an outfit and the two talk between the respective stations, one .on South Second avenue and the I other on South Eighth avenue. Mes-' Mes-' sages from Salt Lake, San Francisco and ships at sea on the Pacific are heard by both. At Small Cost. The outfit owned by Farrell Young cost him less than $100, but he made almost every piece of the mechanism himself, thus minimizing the expense. There is another station in Boise that I is operated by an amateur, w ho is now a student in the University of Idaho. No other stations in the state have made themselves known to the local boys. Farrell Is a son of Thomas Vomic and a nephew of Alma Young, formerly for-merly of Mount Pleasant. He attended attend-ed the Public schools in Mount Pleasant Pleas-ant while a small boy. |
