The Archive · 1938

Japanese Company Starts New Service

RADIO LINK WITH SHIPS RESUMED

With the resumption of business by a firm whose name. whs given Jas the Shanghai Coastal Wireless Sta~ ton, where-to-ship radio communication' now is being carried, on between Japanese vessels and Shanghai, according %0 local Japanese news papers, "The service was started on March 14 on a frequency of 500 kilocycles, the station using the call letters YSN, Business hours have been set from' 6 o'clock ip the moming to 8 o'clock at night. Messages will be received in Japanese characters or romaji letters, Rates were "given as follows: Fes. 050'a word at the station; collection fee, 34 cents or 34 sen; Fes: 040 on ship; collection fee, 27 cents or 27°sen; total collection fee, 61 cents or 61 sen. In Japan fete messages an address is counted as a word and seven letters of the text are counted as one word, the

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