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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1974
NEW RADAR SYSTEM TO PROVIDE KORE AIR TRAFFIC INFORMATION
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A SECONDARY SURVEILLANCE RADAR SYSTEM IS TO BE INSTALLED AT MOUNT PARKER ON HONG KONG ISLAND TO PROVIDE HORE COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION OF AIRCRAFT MOVEMENT TO THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTRE AT THE HONG KONG AIL-ORT.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT SAID THAT THE RADAR SYSTE, WIEN COMPLETED, WILL PROVIDE AIRPORT CONTROLLERS WITH A CONTINUOUS PICTURE OF AIRCRAFT IDENTITY, POSITION AND HEIGHT UNDER ALL VEATHER CONDITIONS AT RANCES UP TO HORE THAN 200 MILES.
THE COST OF THE RADAR EQUIPMENT AMOUNTS TO $5.5 MILLION.
THE RADAR SYSTEM WILL BE ACCOMMODATED IN A FOUR-STOREY BUILDING TO DE CONSTRUCTED AT MOUNT PARKER. THE TOP FLOOR WILL CARRY THE MAIN AERIAL AID HOUSE ITS TURNING CEAR WHILE THE SECOND FLOOR WILL DE FOR THE RADAR TRANSHITTING, RECEIVING AND RADIO LINK EQUIPMENT.
ADDITIONAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT WILL BE PLACED ON THE FIRST FLOOR, WITH THE STANDOY GENERATUR, FUEL STORAGE, AND SWITCHCEAR ON THE CROUND FLOOR.
A DISPLAY SYSTEM WILL ALSO BE INSTALLED AT THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND WILL RECEIVE SIGNALS FROM THE MOUNT PARKER STATION VIA ITS RADIO LINKS, THE SPOKESHAN SAID.
HE EXPLAINED THAT THE DISPLAY WOULD COMPRISE ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPIENT IN THE FORM OF A HAIN COMPUTER AND FOUR ASSOCIATED HI-COMPUTERS WHICH WILL FEED THE RECEIVED JIVORNATION TO THE RADAR DISPLAY IN THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTRE LOCATED AT THE AIRPORT.
CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW RADAR STATION IS EXPECTED TO START LATE NEXT HOUTH. AND DE COMPLETED BY MID-1975. THE RADAR SYSTEN SKULD BECOME OPERATIONAL BY THE END OF 1975.
APRIL, GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTS CHOU $93 MILLION DEFICIT
THE COVERNMENT ACCOUNTS FOR THE MOUTH OF APRIL 1974 SHOW A DEFICIT OF $33 MILLION COMPALED VITI A DEFICIT OF $15 MILLION
LI APRIL LAST YEAR.
TOTAL REVENUE FOR THE MONTH AT $337 MILLION WAS $43 MILLION MORE THAN IN APRIL 1973-
THE TOTAL EXPENDITURE, ANDUNTING TO $370 MILLION, REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF (51 MILLION OVER THE SAME MOUTH LAST YEAR. THE EXPENDITURE INCLUDED $57 HILLION PAID TO THE UZDAN COUNCIL AS THE YIELD FROM THE URDAN GOUNCIL RATE FOR WPRIL 1974.