Rogue's gallery

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.

• Book ID: 104131246
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1937
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 223
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(37)91955-0

✦ Synopsis

CURRENT TOPICS. 68I

is intended for shipboard service in "standing watch" for emergency calls from other vessels at all times when the radio operator may be off duty, as on cargo vessels of 5,5oo gross tons or over employing only one radio operator. Charles J. Pannill, President of the Radiomarine Corp. of America said that the new alarm had received the approval of the Federal Communications Commission after a rigid, sixty-day test, both in the Bureau of Standards laboratories and in the Sandy Hook stations of the U. S. Coast Guard. When connected, the device is set for reception on the 6oo meter distress call wave, and adjusted so as to recognize a distress signal. When such a signal is received it rings bells and turns on warning lights, calling the attention of the operator. In addition to this the same alarms are automatically operated should the device itself become defective. R. H. O.