. Bell telephone magazine . itableradio terminals are available on bothsides of the damaged telephone wireplant. If wire circuits are damaged in anarea where such established radio ter-minals do not exist, and where alter-nate wire routes are inadequate ormay also have been destroyed, othertypes of radio equipment, plus a gooddeal of electrical knowledge and in-genuity, have been called on to savethe day while damaged lines are beingrepaired. On several occasions, avail-able radio equipment built for ship,airplane, and police use has been in-stalled on short notice and operated togive some com
. Bell telephone magazine . itableradio terminals are available on bothsides of the damaged telephone wireplant. If wire circuits are damaged in anarea where such established radio ter-minals do not exist, and where alter-nate wire routes are inadequate ormay also have been destroyed, othertypes of radio equipment, plus a gooddeal of electrical knowledge and in-genuity, have been called on to savethe day while damaged lines are beingrepaired. On several occasions, avail-able radio equipment built for ship,airplane, and police use has been in-stalled on short notice and operated togive some communication during anemergency. When a tropical hurricane in Sep-tember, 1935, almost completely de-stroyed 35 miles of telephone linealong the Florida East Coast Railwayacross the Florida Keys, voice com-munication with Key West and withHavana, Cuba, which is reached overa submarine cable from Key West, Bridging Breaks in Wire Circlits 229 LOCATION BY STATES OF PORTABLE EMERGENCY RADIOTELEPHONE EQUIPMENTS OF THE BELL SYSTEM. LEGEND EACH DOT (•) REPRESENTS ONE TERMINAL. OaOBER 1942 was restored by employing airplane-type radio equipment. Stations wereestablished at Tavernir and Big PineKey to bridge the over-water gap byradio telephone, and the service wascontinued in operation for fourmonths, such was the extent of thedisaster and the inaccessibility of theright-of-way where the railroad hadbeen. After the New England hurricaneof September, 1938, radio telephonetransmitting and receiving sets, withgasoline-driven generators for provid-ing the necessary power supply, wererushed to Boston by air express. Two ultra-high-frequency radiotelephone sets of the type employedin small police stations were the firstto arrive in Boston, and these wereimmediately sent to span a river where the floods had washed away ariver crossing. Since they were notarranged for connection to the wirelines, those wishing to talk came to thelocation of the equipment to send theirmessages. Two other sets
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