Up-to-date Marine Equipment

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 27, 16 January 1931, Page 17

Up-to-date Marine Equipment

For New Liner ™ OW fitting out on the Clyde, the : mammoth new Canadian Pacifie liner, Empress of Britain, will carry one of the latest Marconi short-wave wireless ‘telephone installations when she enters the Atlantic service shortly. ‘The equipment will allow passengers to communicate with telephone subseribers in Burope, Canada, the United States, and Australia. The input power to the transmitter will be 20 kilowatts, and the installation will be similar to that used by Marconi recently when he spoke from his yacht in the Mediterranean to nearly all parts of the world.