WIRELESS SIGNALS
NOTICE TO MARINERS
An important notice to mariners reL garding the transmission of wireless signals has been issued by the Marine Department. The notice states that on request from ships fitted with a direction-finding installation, direction-finding signals will bo transmitted from the Auckland, Awarua, Chatham Island, and Wellington stations. A Bhip should call the station in the ordinary manner, and send the abbreviation "QTG" meaning, ?'Will you send your, signal for one minute on a wave length of ... . metres (or ... kilocycles) in order that I may take your bearing?" The charge for replies to the "QTG" signals ia at the rate of 2s 6d per minute. No information is available as to the degree of reliance to be placed oh any bearings obtainable. If masters have not had previous experience with them in the locality, it is advisable to consult the chart before making use of them, and note if high land intervenes between the estimated position of tho ship and the station. If high land doos intervene, or if the line of bearing cuts the coast line at an acute angle, errors up to as much as 5 degrees are likely to be found. The secretary of the Marine Department invites masters making use of the signals to inform him of the errors1 found in the bearings.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 102, 3 May 1933, Page 10
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220WIRELESS SIGNALS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 102, 3 May 1933, Page 10
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