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Merchant Shipping (Radio Direction Finders) Rules, 1968 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1968

.....used, (a) for any purpose other than the business of the ship or (b) for keeping the radio watch required by the rules framed under Sec. 296 of the Act. Rule 12 Calibration (1) The Master of every ship shall cause the radio directionfinder to be calibrated in accordance with this rule as soon as practicable after it has been installed in the ship and whenever any change is made in the position of the radio-direction-finder aerial system. (2) The radio direction-finder shall be calibrated by two persons the one being experienced in the taking of radio bearings and the other experienced in the taking of visual bearings. The calibration shall be carried out by taking simultaneous radio and visual bearings of a calibrating transmitter, and such bearings shall be taken at intervals of not greater than 5 degrees throughout 360 degrees on a frequency between 285 Kc/s and 315 Kc/s. (3) Calibration tables and curves shall be prepared on the basis of the bearings taken in accordance with sub-rule (2). (4) The Master of every ship shall cause the calibration tables and curves prepared in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this rule to be verified by means of check-bearings .....