SILENCE FOR SOS

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 15

SILENCE FOR SOS

BROADCASTING CEASHS. Radio broadcasters in the New York district were lauded recently by Commander A. ¥. Lamphier, District Communication Superintendent of the Third Naval District, for going off the? air quickly wher several SOS calls came from the sea in the previous few weeks, especially when the submarine S-4 sank. , "It is imperative that the broadeasting stations in the Kast sign off immediately when an SOS call is flashed, although some listeners aparently do not understand why they should be deprived of entertainment when the SOS is on the 600-meter wave, above the broadcast band," said Commander Lamphier. "Tt is obvious that the call from a vessel in. distress may come a long distance and be very weak. In such a case it is necessary to have absolute. silence so that what may be the last message from a partly disabled transmitter may be successfully intercepted. Again, it may ‘be that the ship’s aerial is partlycarried away aud the wave be so altered that it will be received on one of the wave lengths utilised by 1roadcasting stations; that is, between 200 and 550 metres."