Communications Act of 1934 (automatic Radio Call Selector on U.S. Cargo Ships) ... Hearings ... on H.R. 4090 ... March 21, May 4, 6, and June 15, 1955 |
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500 kilocycles aboard actuate alarm signal alerting amended American ships auto autoalarm signal automatic call selector automatic radio call automatic radiotelegraph call bill Brelco Electronics Corp call letters call sign cargo ships cargo vessels Chairman Coast Guard Commissioner WEBSTER committee Communications Act Congress cost criteria dashes defense distress call distress frequency DOLLIVER Federal Communications Commission HALE HARRIS interest international distress signal international Morse code letters patent MACK manufacture maritime industry McCORMACK merchant marine Moore-McCormack Lines Navy NMD Cleveland NMF Boston NMY New York O'HARA OREN HARRIS patent PHILLIPS piece of equipment present purpose qualified operator question radio call apparatus radio call selector radio officer radio operator radio regulations radiotelegraph call selector receive record respond second party selector device selector known SEREYSKY shipowners standards statement steamship STRICHARTZ tests transmission transmitted United States cargo urgency signal watch WOLVERTON
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Page 11 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as introduced, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman) : EXPORT CONTROL ACT OF 1949 * * * TERMINATION DATE SEC.
Page 12 - ... previous service in the aggregate as a qualified operator in a station on board a ship or ships of the United States.
Page 8 - States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows : Page 2.
Page 12 - ... ship and of any other electrical system and shall be capable of being put into operation rapidly and of working for at least six continuous hours.
Page 39 - States or any foreign country, other than a cargo ship of less than five hundred gross tons, to leave or attempt to leave any harbor or port of the United States for a voyage in the open sea...
Page 2 - ... foreign ship means an automatic alarm receiver which has been approved by the country to which the ship belongs, provided the United States and the country to which the ship belongs are both parties to the same treaty, convention, or agreement prescribing the requirements for such apparatus. 'Auto-alarm...
Page 12 - ... be capable of being put into operation rapidly and of working for at least six continuous hours. For the emergency (reserve) installation, the normal range as...
Page 22 - NOTE. — The frequencies prescribed at the present time are 500 kc/s (Radiotelegraphy) and, when the Radio Regulations annexed to the International Telecommunication Convention (Atlantic City, 1947) come into force, 2,182 kc/s (Radiotelephony).
Page 3 - ... (d) The Commission shall, when it finds it necessary for safety purposes, have authority to prescribe the particular hours of watch on a ship of the United States which in accordance with this part is equipped with a radiotelegraph station.
Page 12 - ... clearly perceptible signals from ship to ship over a range of at least 100 nautical miles by day under normal conditions and circumstances, the receiver being assumed to be one employing a rectifier of the crystal type without amplification.* 9.