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The following notes were made on the occasion of a visit made
on March 26th, last to this installation in company with H.M.
Ambassador. Unfortunately no information of a technical nature
is available, but it is hoped that the facts given below may be
of some interest.
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The station was completed in the year 1918. It is situated
about a mile from the town of Hozan and something under two miles
from the Hozan station on the Takao-Hozan-Heito-Choshu line of
the Formosan Government Railways. The town of Hozan lies some five
miles from Takao, the capital of the province of the same name and
the principal seaport in S. Formosa, in the midst of a stretch of
level country prinsipally devoted to the cultivation of sugar-case.
In addition to the main railway station, the installation possesses
at its very door a station on a light railway belonging to the
Shinke Sugar Company which runs from the main line at Hozan to the
village of Rinshikan, on the seacoast. The road leading out from
the town to the installation is a bad one, but is practicable for
motor-cars.
The wireless Station is operated and owned by the Japanese
Navy and is staffed by naval officers and bluejackets, who have
quarters on the premises. It possesães one central pole 620 feet
high and 18 other poles, each about 200 feet in height, ranged
round it in a circle. Near the central pole are situated the
buildings containing the offices and the receiving and transmitting
apparatus. A large dynamo provides the electric power required.
The dynamo and most if not all the other apparatus bear the name
of the Shibaura Electrical Works, Tokio. Other buildings in the
compound house the officers and men, as mentioned above,
Information as to the system of wireless used was refused by
the officer in charge, but as I understand that the so-called
"Japanese" wireless system is none other than the Telefunken
slightly disguised it may be that that used at Hozan is also to
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