New Lighthouse Tender

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 41, 24 April 1931, Page 6

New Lighthouse Tender

Comprehensive Radio Equipment HE s.s. Pole Star. the: new lighihouse tender of the Northeyn Lighthouse Board, Scotland, is: being equipped with a Marconi telephone set, to enable the officials on board to communicate with. the board’s stations ashore, and with direction-finding apparatus for the assistance of nayigation. The telephone equipment consists of a.combined transmitter and. receiver,: 2 compact and simply operated instrnment specially designed for this type of service, or as a portab.e .station ashore. The transmitter has a power of.100 watts. The wireless direction finder fitted on the Pole Star is the latést model of the kind. operating -in conjunction with a fixed double Joop. frame aerial. Owing to the high efficiency of the/ amplifying arrangements in ‘this type of direction finder receiver, it has’ been possible to reduce the type of double loop frame aerial employed to very small dimensions, and it ean be fitted on any part of the deck without becoming obtrusive.