Page images
PDF
EPUB

Shipboard service.

Transmission of time, etc., signals.

Maritime information.

Miscellaneous.

Exchange between shipboard stations.

Retransmission.

Messages through noncontracting coun

tries.

radiograms, the text of which shall not exceed 20 words, shall be transmitted to ships upon request. The rate for such meteorological radiograms shall be carried to the account of the ships to which they are addressed.

2. Meteorological observations made by certain vessels designated for this purpose by the country to which they are subject, may be transmitted once a day, as paid service notices, to the coastal stations authorized to receive the same by the managements concerned, who shall likewise designate the meteorological offices to which such observations shall be addressed by the coastal stations.

3. Time signals and meteorological radiograms shall be transmitted one after the other in such a way that the total time occupied in their transmission shall not exceed ten minutes. As a general rule, all radio stations whose transmissions might interfere with the reception of such signals and radiograms, shall remain silent during their transmission in order that all stations desiring it may be able to receive the same. Exception shall be made in cases of distress calls and of state telegrams.

4. The managements of the radio service shall give to agencies of maritime information such data regarding losses and casualties at sea or other information of general interest to navigation, as the coastal stations may properly report.

14. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

ARTICLE XLVI.

The exchange of correspondence between shipboard stations shall be carried on in such a manner as not to interfere with the service of the coastal stations, the latter, as a general rule, being accorded the right of priority for the public service.

ARTICLE XLVII.

Coastal stations and stations on shipboard shall not be bound to participate in the retransmission of radiograms except in cases where direct communication cannot be established between the stations of origin and destination.

The number of such retransmissions shall, however, be limited to two. In the case of radiograms intended for the coast, retransmission shall take place only for the purpose of reaching the nearest coastal station.

Retransmission shall in every case be subject to the condition that the intermediate station which receives the radiogram in transit is in a position to forward it.

ARTICLE XLVIII.

If the route of a radiogram is partly over telegraph lines, or through radio stations subject to a non-contracting Government, such radiograms may be transmitted provided the management of the radio service to which such lines or stations are subject have declared that, if the occasion should arise, they will comply with such provisions of the Convention and of the Regulations as are indispensible to the regular transmission of radiograms and that the payment of charges is insured. Such declaration shall be made to the International Bureau and communicated to the offices of the Telegraph Union.

ARTICLE XLIX.

tions.

Modifications of the present regulations which may be rendered Effect of modifica necessary in consequence of the decisions of subsequent Telegraph Conferences shall go into effect on the date fixed for the application of the provisions adopted by each one of such conferences.

ARTICLE L.

national Telegraph

Specified provisions.

The provisions of the International Telegraph Regulations shall Application of Interbe applicable analogously to radio correspondence in so far as they Regulations. are not contrary to the provisions of the present regulations. The following provisions of the Telegraph Regulations, in particular, shall be applicable to radio correspondence: Article XXVII, paragraphs 3 to 6, relating to the collection of charges; Articles XXVI and XLI relating to the indication of the route to be followed; Article LXXV, paragraph 1, LXXVIII, paragraphs 2 to 4, and LXXIX, paragraphs 2 and 4, relating to the preparation of accounts. However: (1) The period of six months provided by paragraph 2 of Article LXXIX of the Telegraph Regulations for the verification of accounts shall be extended to nine months in the case of radiograms; (2) The provisions of Article XVI, paragraph 2, shall not be considered as authorizing gratuitous transmission, through radio stations, of service telegrams relating exclusively to the telegraph service, nor the free transmission over the telegraph lines of service telegrams relating exclusively to the radio service; (3) The provisions of Article LXXIX, paragraphs 3 and 5, shall not be applicable to radio accounts. As regards the application of the provisions of the Telegraph Regulations, coastal stations shall be considered as offices of transit except when the Radio Regulations expressly stipulate that such stations shall be considered as offices of origin or of destination.

In conformity with Article 11 of the Convention of London, the present Regulations shall go into effect on the first day of July, 1913. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed one copy of these Regulations, which shall be deposited in the archives of the British Government, and a copy of which shall be transmitted to each of the Parties.

For Germany and the German Protectorates:

B. KOEHLER

O. WACHENFELD

DR. KARL STRECKER
SCHRADER

GOETSCH

DR. EMIL KRAUSS
FIELITZ

For the United States and the possessions of the United States:

JOHN R. EDWARDS
JNO. Q. WALTON

WILLIS L. MOORE

LOUIS W. AUSTIN

GEORGE OWEN SQUIER

EDGAR RUSSEL

C. MCK. SALTZMAN

DAVID WOOSTER TODD

JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, Jr.
WEBSTER

W. D. TERRELL

JOHN I. WATERBURY

In effect July 1, 1913,

Ante, p. 1709.

Deposit of original Regulations.

Signatures.

[blocks in formation]

For Great Britain and the various British Colonies and Protectorates:

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

For Japan and for Chosen, Formosa, Japanese Sakhalin, and the leased territory of Kwantung:

[blocks in formation]

Signatures Contd.

[blocks in formation]

(CQ). Signal of enquiry made by a station desiring to communicate.

(TR). Signal announcing the sending of particulars concerning a station on shipboard (Art. XXII).

(1)........Signal indicating that a station is about to send at high power.

PRB Do you wish to communicate by means of the I wish to communicate by means of the Inter

International Signal Code?

QRA

What ship or coast station is that?

QRB

What is your distance?

QRC

What is your true bearing?

QRD

Where are you bound for?

QRF

Where are you bound from?

QRG

What line do you belong to?

QRJ

QRH What is your wave length in meters?

How many words have you to send?
QRK How do you receive me?

national Signal Code.

[blocks in formation]

cal radiograms.)

« PreviousContinue »