NAVIGATION IN FOGS.
TESTING "BEAM" INDICATORS
LONDON. Sept. 5.
Signor Marconi cruised to the Goodwins aboard his yacht Elettra in order to test the new "beam" wireless direction indicators, -which, designed to prevent fog mishaps, are working from the South Foreland lighthouse. A chart is marked in 64 sectors, to each of which a letter is given. The loud speaker of (he ship requiring direction hears the letter as the wireless beam sweeps round, together Avith four subsidiary signals, giving the position most accurately.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19124, 16 September 1925, Page 11
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