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Show RADIO DEVICE TO DIRECT FISHERMAN IN FOGGY SEA WASHINGTON'. June 2. Ear! C. i I Hanson, radio experimenter, has added add-ed another product to his list of lnven-' lnven-' tions- Thls time It is a radiophone device J which Is Intended to save fishermen from being lost in a fog at eta. Only i recently Hanson announced his lnvin-' lnvin-' tlon of a miniature radiophone that amplifies sound for persons hard of hearing. Hanson'8 latest Is small enough to ' lake up little room in a fisherman'! I dory. While away from tho schooner I the fisherman equipped with thus instrument in-strument can hear signals from the j mother ship, in fpa of fog or dis-I dis-I tance. The schooner is equipped with a l-' l-' kilowatt transformer, a motor gener-I gener-I ator, a "chopper wheel'' to nend oul tho signal and an aerial. The chopper chop-per wheel Issues u continuous moan-1 moan-1 lng noise which In caught by tho re-I re-I c.olvlug set in the dory. 1 The recelvor not only catches the sound but tcllo the fisherman from 1 what direction It coma, " thni hn could rod toward lt source. To equip a finning scnooner and its fleet of 12 or more dories. Hanson saya, would not cost more then $2000. - HAN HUN'S LATi8T VVK in ) I |