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ROYAL OBSERVATORY, HONG Kong.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 8. 512.
The following schedule should be substituted for that in paragraph 1. of Notice to Mariners G. N. No. S. 101 published in the Government Gazette No. 14 of 1st April, 1938. It will become operative at 11h. a.m. on 1st January, 1939.
The following information is transmitted from the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong via Cape d'Aguilar (VPS), and Hong Kong (ZBW) at the times, and on the wavelengths specified.
No.
G.M.T.
H. K. St. Time.
Nature of Transmission.
1
0018
0818
2
0100
0900
3 0155-0200 0955-1000
4
0300
1100
5
0500
1300
6 a.m. Synoptic in International Code containing reports from all land and ship stations available at 8 a.m.
Do. Do.
Station and wavelength.
VPS simultaneously on 600 and 36 metres.
at 8.30 a.m. VPS on 36 metres
(8333 Kc/s).
Time Signals at each second, the 28th, 29th, 54th to 59th being omitted for identifica- tion purposes.
General inference from 6 a.m.
observations and
for 5 districts :-
forecast
A. Shanghai to Turn-
about.
B. Turnabout to Hong
Kong.
C. Hong Kong and
neighbourhood.
D. Hong Kong to Hai-
nan Straits.
E. North part of China
Sea.
Synoptic in International Code of 6 a.m. observations from land and ship stations.
An aviation forecast for district
C, when possible.
General inference from 6 a.m. observations and forecast for district C.
VPS simultaneously
on 600 and 36 metres.
VPS as for No. 1.
ZBW 355 m. tele-
phony.