RADIO IN LIFEBOATS
Wireless lias now been in use in lifeboats for 10 years, but those who have seen I lie speclneular results of wireless in bringing help to vessels in distress on the high seas, and who with simple receiving sets in their own homes can hear distant bromlensting stations, can hardly realize Hie diflieiillies of faking messages in small boats like a lifeboat in the mills! of Hie noise of wind and waves and the lifeboat’s engine, and with the impossibility of having masts sufficiently high to carry really effective aerials. Another great difficulty has been the protection of the delicate ap“•iratns from Hie sea. comments an F'".'l;-h unp-'r At present if is, possible to use wifeless only in lifeboats with cabins. Twenty-six of these lifeboats now have radio telephony, and one Ims wireless radio-telegrapfiy. A number of cabin lifeboats hav also been filled will, watertight lomlspeakers on (]n"k. Other cabin lifeboats will ho filled wilh rml;o-felc|ibotiy as lliey are built, and xperiments .'ire now being made with :i receiving sH which has been made wnlerti.ghl so that it can be nsml on lifeboats which have no cabins to protect it from the sea.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 104, 26 January 1939, Page 3
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196RADIO IN LIFEBOATS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 104, 26 January 1939, Page 3
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