The Long Arm of the S.O.S.

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 8, 6 September 1929, Page 4

The Long Arm of the S.O.S.

"PADIO NHWS," in. an article on the ' uses of the "S.O.S.," gives some very interesting instances of the practical value of this signal: in everyday life. 1. A fisherman in.a drifter, not carrying a wireless set, about thirty miles off Wick, was wanted to go to his | wife. Would any drifter in the neigh- — bourhood give the message? The man was told and returned home. 2. A message was broadcast in Ger- » man asking for a man who was touring between Hamburg and Frankfort in a two-seater Phantom Rolls-Royce and saying that his father was ill ~ and required him home at once. [je was found., a 3, A man who was believed to be a tramp and whose wife was in a poorjaw institution was traced through his fellow workmen and returned to his wife. His job was kept open for him. This case was recently in the papers. 4, A nursing mother’ was urgently required for a baby on the South Coast.. An offer was made over the telephone and accepted within ten minutes. . 7 5. A man taking his holiday yachting on the Broads was wanted to go to his father in Manchester. The "3.0.8." was heard by another yacht who remembered passing his yacht, the name of which was mentioned in the . "3 0.8." before. They returned round and went in search of the other yacht .: and delivered the message. ,