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RADIO BROADCAST
THE SIGNAL CORPS AERIALS Receiving loops of the Signal Corps Radio Station, Washington, D. C.
and cables to right and left of which, on the surface of channels of course, ships steer easily, no matter the weather.
Farmers, too, have lost their isolation, because of radio. Via the Post Office Department, the Bureau of Markets and the Weather Bureau have been supplying them with dignified and important information while farmer boys and girls have used the family receiving sets to listen to a thousand things the wireless waves are saying.
It's really incredible in how many ways Uncle Sam is using radio. The Post Office Department, for instance, now administers -its Air Mail by radio; and the Lighthouse Service is setting out radio beacons so that from the bridge of his ship a master can tell precisely where he is, by radio.
But the Navy antedated the Lighthouse Service in this work. The Navy has a chain of
radio compass stations each manned by five men, along both our coasts and at some points in our island possessions, so that naval vessels and others can make port whenever their captains desire. The Navy has more than fifty of these stations, all the product of the last two and one-half years. During the year 192 1 alone, when only forty-six of these stations at most were in operation, they gave 53,344 bearings to 21,622 vessels, with a saving in time and life and property not easily calculated, since it costs $500 and more for many a liner to be forced to lie off port for half a day or so, and blind chance at trying to make port is the parent of innumerable accidents.
But you must go out with the Atlantic Fleet and live for days in its radio shacks if you want to know anything about the innumerable ways in which the Navy uses radio, because there is no branch of naval en
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HBADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY RADIO SYSTEM In Washington, the control station of the Army radio net. Captain W. B. Wolverton (in right foreground) in charge