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Show Excellent Work Done by the, Navy Stations The distance from shore Is told by the strength of the signals. Then within five minutes of the time the vessel sends out the inquiry the reply comes back and the ship's master knows just where he Is and pilots his craft accordingly. There Is a constant Increase In the number of compass stations main tained by the Navy department along the various coasts. The latest stalls tics available show that 15.374 ship captains were shown their location during heavy fogs last year, and it is fair to assume that at least 10 per cent of them might have been ground ed or wrecked had it not been for the assistance given by radio. A compass station is a wireless planl where special apparatus Is used for telling the definite location of a vessel A ship is lost in the fog; the wireless operator flashes out ttie signal. "Q T E." The station receiving the message mes-sage adjusts the ndio compass to meet the direction from which the message comes. This is the "median leal ear" of the station and the oper ator can tell exactly the direetitm down to a point of the compass. Each station getting the message reports to a central station, where calculations are made as to the location of the ship. |