RADIO BEACONS.
INSTALLAJTpN ON COAST PROPOSED. AIDS TO NAVIGATION. WELLINGTON", August 22. ■ With the object of bringing NewZealand into line with other progressive countries in installing aids for coastal navigation and with the hope of making New Zealand’s coastal waters safer for shipping the Gpvernnient intends to arrange for the establishment of a number of radio beacons at points along the coast where such warning devices are considered necessary. The Minister of Marine, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, said in an interview to-day that he hoped to set up 30 or 40 beacons. No grant had yet been made for the purpose but as soon as the money was available the work would be put in hand. Beacons would be erected over a period which could not yet be estimated. Radio beacons, by means of which ships fitted with complimentary directional finding apparatus are able to get approximate bearings from wireless signals are considered by some
authorities as necessary aids to navigation where fogs or low visibility w prevent ordinary coastal lights from ’ being readily picked up. The beacons consist of small transmitters usually operated mechanically, sending a characteristic signal at fixed intervals on a wavelength of between 500 and 1000 metres.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 23 August 1934, Page 5
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