Arcadia, California, USA
1918 - WIRELESS MESSAGES REACH ARCADIA, CAL., FROM BROOKLYNYARD

Balloon Used at Training Field Is the Highest Aerial in the World.

Eagle Bureau, 901 Colorado Building
Washington, September 17 - The wireless station at Arcadia, Cal, by using for aerial the cable of a balloon, put aloft from the training field, has intercepted messages sent by the Brooklyn Navy Yard wireless stations, according to an announcement by the War Department today. This balloon cable probably makes the highest aerial in the world.

This announcement was made by the Division of Military Aeronautics, indicating increasing efficiency in both the work of students and the equipment of the War Department's various balloon training fields. The balloon school at Arcadia has 106 miles of wire in use in teaching military communication. For the purpose of demonstration it has a complete system of wiring strung as it would be in the front line trenches on the battlefield. Communication posts and stations for all kinds of messages are used by the students the same as soldiers use them at the front.

A good part of the country southeast and southwest of Arcadia is laid out with lines of communication to this balloon school, similar to part of a sector at the front. All of the balloons, when aloft, are so wired that they can be lined together with any trench, doubled up for any work together, or they can be cut off from the trenches and talk only with their own chart room, and winch or operating crew on the ground below.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York
September 17, 1918

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