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(Ze 2 )
Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station, Hong Kong.
Position:-
Lat. 22°12'38.61" N.
Long. 114°15′ 18.94" E.
Runge in nautical miles 350-2,000.
Apparatus:-
Call Sign VPS.
ZCG.
VPS.
((A) Spark, Marconi 5 K.W., working on 600, ke/s (600 metres) Normal working
rarge 350 miles.
Note: This transmitter is shortly to be changed for a 6 K.W. Valve I.C.W.
C.W. transmitter.
(A1) Marconi 500 watt I.C.W. C.W. Valve transmitter.
(B) Continuous Wave and Interrupted Continuous Wave. Marconi 6 K.W. Valve, working on 142.993 kc/s (2098 metres) and 102.986 kc/s (2913 metres). Normal working range 1,000 miles.
(C) 500 watt Short Wave transinitter using rectified 50 cycle supply partly smoothed and working on 9439.899 kc/s (31.78 metres.) Normal working range 750 miles.
(D) 500 watt Short Wave transinitter using Self rectified 50 cycle supply working
on 5952.381 kc/s (50.4 metres). Normal working range 750 miles.
Services:-
(1) With (A) and (A1) the station conducts the following services :—
(a) Commercial service with ships at sen.
(b) Broadcasts weather reports twice daily at 0400 and 1200 G.M.T. Naviga-
tion warnings, if any, follow the weather reports.
(e) Hong Kong storm warnings broadcast on receipt and at 18 minutes past
every hour until 1600 G.M.T,
(2) With (B) the station conducts commercial services with Canton, Swatow, Hoihow, Wuchow, Nanning. Macao and Kwongchowan. The station is also used for com- mercial C.W. service with ships at sea, at fixed times, for transmitting time signals on 2,913 metres and for broadcasting weather reports and navigation warn- ings twice daily.
(3) With (C) and (D) the station conducts a Short Wave commercial service with British North Borneo, French Indo China, China, Siam and Philippines and via the Philippines to American Continent, Europe, Dutch East Indies and Dutch Borneo. (4) Station (C) is used as a standby for meteorological traffic with Shanghai and Phulien, (5) The transmitters are all located at Cape D'Aguilar and are remotely controlled by both the Radio Telegraph Office, Des Voeux Road, Victoria, and the Royal Observa- tory Wireless Station Kowloon.
(6) The receivers for the various services are situated in the Royal Observatory Wireless Station Kowloon and the Radio Telegraph Office Victoria, a system of tone channels connecting the two.
(7) A summary of Meteorological conditions is broadcasted on 2,913 metres C.W. at
0500 and 1300 G.M.T.
(8) Time signals controlled from the Royal Observatory Kowloon are emitted twice daily
at 0156-0200 and 1256-1300 G.M.T. on 2913 metres I.C.W.