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WIRELESS FOG SIGNALS.

TWO INSTALLATIONS ON THE CLYDE

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FÖRDERS BY MILL, R, MELVILLE' ANITE, M.R.E.,

ADMINISTRATEYE COMMANDANT,

No. 238. 1-CASTIALS.

· Musketry Part I. will be fired at Stone- cutters Range on Sunday, August 8th, 1928:

Range Officer Capt. D. C. Logan,

Launch will leave Murray Pier at 8 am, and call at Kowloon Pier ̈at- 9.10,

An installation of great interest to harbour and conservancy engineers, and Government Departments concerned with barbour administration, is referred to in an official nation to mariners which Announces that an unattended fog signal has been permanently established on Roaneath Beacon in the Firth of Clyda The installation was put in for experi- mental purposes in January of this year, and the trials since carried out under actual working conditions have been so successful that a prolongation of the trial period is now considered unnecessary for 3 and & p.m., and on Saturday, August

Installations of this kind render" pos7th, 1998, between 9 a.m. and I p.m. sible. "the erection of anattended light houses and fog signals at many difficult to qualify for efficiency. situations or dangerous rooks where it is at pressnt too expensive to plovilo light keepers for a light of fog signal,

where it is impracticable on account of rocky bottom, strong tides, rough seas or even ships' anchors, to maintain a sub- marine cable connection for an unattend ed light or fog signal, or otherwise im practicable to build a lighthouse tower. They will also be useful at many places in saving the cost of light-keepers in attendance.IN

The installations on the Clyde were initiated and designed under the direc- tion of Messrs. D. & C. Stevenson, M. M. Inst. C. E., Civil Engineers, Edinburgh, whose experience of lighthouse work is outstanding; the wireless apparatus was perfected and supplied by the Marconi Company; and the fog guns by Messta, Mayes, Waterloo Street, Glasgow.

WIRELESS CONTROL.

The need for a reliable wireless control for lighthouse purposes has long been felt and these three firms have had the pro- blem in hand for a number of years A system of control was completed in 1914, but the War and restriction in the use of wireless prevented its use. The ap- paratus now so cleverly designed by the Marconi Company, is however, on the same principle but uses valves in place of a coherer arrangement. No doubt its use will be extended to other departments of engineering work where wireless con- trol of mechanical apparatus is required to be obtained from a distance

The Clyde installation is interesting for several reasons: Rosneath Patch is a sand-bank in mid-channel hecho en trance of the Clyde between, Gourock and the opposite Argyllshire shore." A rein- forced concrete lighted beacon marks the Patch; and fog signals have been install- ed by the Clyde Lighthouses Trustees both at the head of the pier at Fort Matilda, the site of the torpedo factory, and on Resneath Beacon. These signals are automatic in action and give an ex- -plosive-signal, the explosion-being-ob- tained from a mixture of air and acety lene gas. Once started the guns continue giving an explosion until they are switch- ed off or until the acetylene gas if ex- hausted. These guns are in much use as fog signals in Scotland and in other countries. They are the only automatic fog signals in use. at present, and they have advantages over other fog signals in being inexpensive to install and main- tain. They are not so powerful as the large compressed air siren or diaphone signals installed, say, by Trinity House, and the other British Lighthouse Authori ties, as coast fog signals, but they have a considerable advantage over all other signala in narrow waters and harbour entrantes where a powerful signal is not the sole requirement, in that the signal

Dress: Umform optional, but rifo, bayonet, belt and pouches must he taken. Arms will be drawn from Corps Head- quarters on Friday, August 6th, 1926, between 9 a.m. and noon, or 9 and 4 p.m.,

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fare.

It is hoped that as many Officers and N.C.O.'s as possible will attend.

3-RIFLES

Many members of the Corps are at pre- sent keeping their rifies in their own possession. This practice is contrary to regulations.

Members are reminded that all rides when not in use must be kept at Corps Headquarters, if the Armouries at Taikoo and Kowloon Docks are closed."

Those members of the Corps now in possession of rifies must return them to Corps Headquarters without delay,"

4-MOUNTED INFANTRY CO. Mounted Parade at 5.30 p.m. on Thurs. day, July 29th, 1996, at Mounted Infantry Stables.

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The following is taken on the strength on July 28th, 1926, and posted, to the Mounted Infantry Company:-

No. 1085 Pte. J. F. Fyn.

-7.—TRANSFERS.

The following transfers will take effect from July 29th, 1996; ~

No. 642 Gar. W. F. Simmons, from

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No. 874 Pte. E. A. B. Brodie from

No. 1 Platoon to M.I. Co.

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8.-LEAVE

The following are granted leave of absence from the Corps..

2nd Lieut. A. K. Mackenzie, Scottish Co. from July 22nd to October 21st, 1926.

No. 687 Pte. J. Chatterton, Armoured Car Co., from August 1st to .De- cember 31st, 1926.

No. 143 C.Q.M.S. E. G. Stewart, In-

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There will be a Band Night at Volun

can be repeated as frequently as everyteer Headquarters Parade ground at 6.15 ten seconds. At Roseneath and Fort pm on Friday, August 8th, 1928, by the Matilda the guns get their supply of Band of The East Surrey Regiment. acetylene gas from a carbide to water

plant, but cylinders of acetylene gas

Tickets: $1 each are obtainable at An- dissolved in acetone are used elsewhere.derson Music Co. and Volunteer Head- No electrical or other apparatus than the quarters. „ acetylene supply is required to operate

the guna themselves which can be left

firing for so long as the gas supply laste. After a specific number of these trains The two guns on the Clyde have a sys- have been transmitted, the gas valve of tem of wireless receiving apparatas fitted the gun will open, and the gun will fre. to them and a transmitting set synchronis- For the purpose of stopping the gun the ing with the receiving sets is installed at transmitter has been arranged to send out Gourock Pier. 14 miles from Rosenpath trains of waves at a different frequency, Beacon When fog is observed the transThese are sent in exactly the same way mitting installation is put into operation and the impulses. sent out are received as the starting signal, and after the on the apparatus attached to the fog the gas valve of the gun is closed.

pendulum has made the necessary swings signals which starts them giving their signals The synchronising arrangement for detecting and amplifying the incoming The receiver comprises a two valve unit renders the installations immune from atmospherics and interference from other signals and a two valve unit for operating wireless waves. When the fog lifts and special Marconi dull emitter valves of a.moving coil relay. The valves used are the guns have to be stopped, another set constant emission with a consumption of of impulses, with a different period, is 06 amperes per filament. These valves sent out by the transmitting station are lighted permanently and are changed Sufficient energy is got for the transmit every three months The first is a detec. ting and receiving installations from small tor, the second a low frequency amplifier, storage batteries.. Continuous operation and the third and fourth valver perform

of the signals, resulting in annoyance to a special duty in connection with the the neighbourhood and an expense of gas moving coil relay which controls a local is thus avoided. Romeath signal is battery circuit through two halance arranged to give one explosion every 20 seconds and Fort Matilda ever-10 cause the relay contacts to open and close wheels. The signals from the transmitter

seconds.

once for each swing of the pendulum, THE TRANSMITTER.

and the amplitude of the swing of the The essential features of the transmitter while the start pendulum is in operation start balance wheel increases continuously are a pendulum and mercury break, until contact is made. The battery then spark coil and a quenched spark trans- sends a current through another relay mitter. In starting the gun the pendu which opens the gas valve. Similarly, to lum is allowed to swing freely, causing small contact on its aide to dip into a wheel is energized at the appropriate close the gas valve the closing balance mercury cup a predetermined number of number of impulses per minute. times per minute. The coil circuit is then The receiver is completely self-contained closed and, consequently trains of waves and needs attention only once in three and radiated at the axed rate per minute. months for battery charging and valve

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