Wireless in the Trawling Industry

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 8, 6 September 1929, Page 12

Wireless in the Trawling Industry

HE successful working of many of the trawler companies operating off the New South Wales coast is due in 00 small measure to the fact that they are equipped’ with wireless apparatus suitable for. both telegraphy and telephony transmissions and reception. As a result the trawlers are in periodic communication with their headquarters at Sydney, and also in communication with thes company’s | other trawlers operating off the coast. At Pennant Hills a special commntint transmitter is installed for catica with these vessels, while a special service is operated at the La Per-: ouse station for the reception of traw-. ler communication. Both stations are owned and operated by A.W.A. . Apart from being able to give information to the trawler owners as to what stores, etc., are required by the vessels on arrival in Sydney, the service proves of outstanding value in enabling one vessel to inform the other of the excellence or otherwise of fishing ground in a particular locality. If one vessel iS'making particularly good ‘hauls of fish, other trawlers of ‘that line would be. advised, and, as a result of this communication, there might be a material increase in the quantity: of fish caught. ‘The service has demonstrated its value to such an extent that every trawler operating from Sydney ai fitted with an installation of ane d.