WIRELESS BEACON.
SUCCESSFCJL EXPERIMENTS. RUGBY, Monday. Experiments with a “wireless lighthouse” at Orford Ness, Suffolk, proved so successful in assisting shipping out of sight of the land to find their true bearings that it will be worked continuously for two months, beginning on October 20th. This wireless beacon, which is worked by the Air Ministry and the Board of Trade to assist shipping and aircraft, has been particularly useful to the former, since commercial aeroplanes have their own particular systems for obtaining wireless bearings over the cross-Channel routes.
It consists cf a tower containing an electrically controlled revolving frame aerial, which sends out certain signals to specific points of the compass in such a way that an air pilot picking up the signals can with a stop-watch gauge his bearings.—B.O.W.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 5
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130WIRELESS BEACON. Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 5
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