Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1920 — New Wireless Distress Call. [ARTICLE]

New Wireless Distress Call.

A novel wireless emergency device, by which ships in distress can ring alarm bells on other ships within wireless range is reported by the American chamber of commerce in London. The present wireless system of communication requires that an operator to hear a call must be on duty, bearing the usual telephone headpiece. The new device is said to enable any station or ship equipped with a special automatic transmitter key to calk up any station or ship within range,, fitted with a corresponding reeelver relay, even if the operator is absent. The calling up, according to the American chamber, is effected by a bell which starts ringing on the ships, called. It is claimed that one of the most Important uses of the devices will beto insure immediate and general attention to S. O. S. calls.