Show U UI UIS S 8 TO SAVE SA VE LIVES AT SEA SEABY SEABY SEABY BY RADIO Coast Guard cutters I 4 Equipped With Large Transmitters BOSTON Feb Two 30 20 Two U S coast guard cutters culters the Tampa and Ur the Ih Modoc are being primed to leave leive here about March 1 I to guard passengers at sea against lie of floating icebergs Their greatest asset esset is a 2000 watt 2000 watt telephone tt and telegraph transmitter t on each of or the cutters enough to be heard by bypassing bypassing passing ships through the tha most Inclement weather and to be pIcked up at nt Washington when conditions arc are favorable Thee The e e twin twins transmitters could be broadcasting stations more than most of ot those en- en entertaining entertaining en entertaining radio ran fans fails toda today were It not for regulations forbidding their rsc sl for tor this purpose e Their special duty Is to save I life at lit sea Ilea so they've e been constructed of the he latest Innovations Innovation In radio Regardless of weather wrather condi condi- conditions conditions these cutters cutlets drift with lIh Ice Ice- Icebergs icebergs Ice Icebergs bergs for das da Ila s plotting their po- po po determining determining- their Ions lons pt of drift observing the ma maInc ma- ma maina Inc ina plants In Iii the neighborhood md nd constantly warning arning shipping of 0 their pr presence their speed of ot ravel ra end their direction SULT 01 OP Of TITANIC TIT IHS STEH This service Is a result remit of the atAl end and of or the tho Titanic In 1912 with st sl of its passengers er Its It's b by the United States but la is actually ll International Its ost o t ng bt share shared t by the tbt leading unai l powers In hi this his set several se un- un unusual unusual un unusual usual had h to 0 be consid consid- considered considered ered red ThC TIlO although high In iii power pon-ec had to be compact enough to 10 fit Into the time radio room ot or ea h hi Rbi ship The T e voltages hal had to be kept Iown down to a 1 tie be al ai of ot the the- small space In tIme radio corn oom nn nod ni 1 l the had to bi b of bt the tile dea dead froni tn 80 that lie hC operator It If thrown Min it 11 durin during a hIlY 8 era would be exposed to io dangerous otic ol c RA na HAA SPECIAL J IT liES A tI UK time time set had hado o 0 tx 14 s 5 nya Th tun- tun tun tuning m ing ng it lo io be simple and ct a-ct el The wavE wa 11 o 1 be free of or harmonics harmonic ani nt of an any due 10 0 Ill h rr and pitching of or Ihl ii hip All 1 u these requirements have he ml n n fl by the time new Ill I'll The actS ts were constructed pe- pe lally for or these boats loats by the Gen Con ral company even en to tolie Ibe lie de design n of a new Dew vacuum tube or of low 10 lot e cila and yet four times as power powerful CuI as aa any ony previous pre low tube arc lire three tt If these those 2000 volt 2000 lI watt ot of volt O tubes In each the sets seis two for the transmissiOn and on on- on for tor modulation Each provides J communication tion cu pure continuous wave telegraph tone modulated tele tale telegraph telegraph graph on telephone If the She ht captain on the bridge wants 0 o talk to 10 Washington lon rom his station in the middle of or th b he be need only pick up tip the ne In front of him and nd talk tatk by remote control on the ship direct with his lI listener tener |