CUARDING THE COAST.
directional' wireless. BRITISH DEVELOPMENT. LONDON, April 25.—Wireless stations ashore, regularly transmitting signals by day and night, are likely to become J permanent additions to the machinery of coastal navigation. Experiments in the Thames Estuary have reached an advanced stage, and various lightships, I including those on the Goodwins, will { bo erjuipped with wireless telephones,! enabling the keepers to ring the Ramsgate post office. Every group of lightships will have a land station as its base, and thus will be in communication with the nearest life- j boat and life-saving apparatus. | The authorities at Trinity House realise that the uso of wireless is only in its infancy, but they foresee in it a. system eoual to the present systems of lights, bells, and siren. The experimental station at Inchkeith (Scotland), gives shipmasters its position bv wireless. Tt. is performing satisfactorily, but it range is only eight miles. It is hopod to increase the range to at least 50 miles. |
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16121, 9 May 1923, Page 6
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