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Bieles BSMT-3 Barque

Review of Related Literature Factors Affecting Radio Communication on Board

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Prior to the introduction of radio, maritime communication was generally limited to lineof-sight visual signaling during clear weather, plus noise-makers such as bells and foghorns with only limited ranges. Beginning in the mid-1800s, an international convention was developed using special semaphore flags to exchange messages between merchant ships. Ships were the first to use radio. In the past, the ship radio system was operated by radiotelegraphy technique, in which Morse-coded messages were sent and received over wireless transmitters. The first federal radio legislation was passed in 1910. According to 1910 wireless ship act, a vessel carrying 50 or more passengers must be equipped with a radio communicating equipment of certain capabilities. For example, the radio system must be capable of conveying messages over 100 miles. Even today, the ships that are not equipped for satellite communications depend on an old wireless telegraphy system for communication. Marine radio was first installed on ships around the turn of the 20th century. In those early days, radio (or "wireless" as it was known) was used primarily for transmission and reception of passenger telegrams. Radio watch keeping hours were not standardized, and there was no regulatory requirement for carriage of radio by ships. Indeed, there was a general lack of regulation of the radio spectrum. Amateur/experimental stations often interfered with commercial stations and vice-versa. All that changed one clear and cold April night in 1912...The most modern passenger liner of the time, RMS Titanic, sank on her maiden voyage after a collision with an iceberg. An onboard radio communication system having a radio network constructed by arranging a plurality of radio sets for transmitting and receiving radio signals in a first vehicle, the onboard radio communication system comprising a radio transmitting and receiving unit for achieving timing synchronization on a fixed-period radio communication frame basis, for assigning, to a prescribed period at a head portion in the frame, report signals for reporting state management information about the radio sets to other radio sets and control signals for controlling the individual radio sets, for transmitting and receiving the report signals and the control signals, for selecting one of frequency channels capable of radio communications, and for transmitting and receiving the radio signals via the selected frequency channel in a time sharing manner an adjacent vehicle detection unit for detecting a second vehicle adjacent to the first vehicle a radio interference decision unit, which is started when the adjacent vehicle

detection unit detects the adjacent second vehicle, for deciding the presence or absence of interference due to radio waves leaking from the second vehicle; and a frequency channel switching unit for switching, when the radio interference decision unit decides that the radio interference is present, a frequency channel in use by scanning other switchable frequency channels, and by reporting a frequency channel with which the scanning succeeds to the other radio sets via the report signals.

Mariners and organizations require consistent and effective radio communications systems. If you are within close range of an OREI, you should be able to rely on marine navigation systems as much as if you were in open sea. However, that requiring line of sight promulgation may be affected by wind turbines. You will also need to be able to detect other craft in the area and to take appropriate avoiding action. Port authorities and VTS operators require effective detection, identification and tracking of vessels navigating in their areas to organize traffic, provide traffic information, provide navigational assistance services to vessels operating within port approaches, prescribe routing schemes to meet their statutory responsibilities in respect of the safety of navigation Emergency services such as Royal National Lifeboat Institution vessels, HM Coastguard and Royal Air Force helicopters require the ability to rapidly detect and react to maritime casualties. If there is a failure of any radar, navigation or communication system it could: reduce safety levels, lead to marine casualties and reduce the effectiveness of emergency service operations. If an incident involves a passenger vessel, or a vessel carrying dangerous and polluting cargo, it could have serious consequences for the public and the environment, both at sea and ashore.