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 54 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATION-APR. 8, 1938 [744] §5. (1) Messages emanating from mobile stations and contain- ing information relative to the presence of tropical cyclones must be transmitted in as short a time as possible to the other neighboring mobile stations and to the competent authorities at the first point on the coast with which contact may be established. Their transmission shall be preceded by the safety signal. [745] (2) Any mobile station may, for its own use, listen to the meteorological observations transmitted by other mobile stations even when they are addressed to a national meteorological service. The stations of the mobile service which transmit meteorological observa- tions addressed to a national meteorological service shall not be required to repeat these observations; but the exchange, upon request, of information relating to weather conditions shall be authorized between mobile stations. B. TIME SIGNALS-NOTICES TO NAVIGATORS [746] §6. The provisions of §4 above shall be applicable to time sig- nals and to notices to navigators, with the exception, as regards time signals, of the provisions of §4 (3) of title A [No. 741]. [747] §7. Messages containing information relative to the presence of dangerous ice, dangerous wrecks, or of any other imminent danger to navigation, must be transmitted with as little delay as possible to the other neighboring mobile stations and to the competent authori- ties at the first point of the coast with which contact may be estab- lished. These transmissions must be preceded by the safety signal. [748] §8. When they deem it necessary, and on condition that the sender consents, the administrations may authorize their land sta- tions to communicate to such maritime information agencies as they choose, and under conditions laid down by themselves, information concerning accidents and disasters at sea or information of a gen- eral interest to navigation. C. SERVICE OF RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING STATIONS [749] §9. The administrations to which radio direction-finding sta- tions are subject accept no responsibility for the consequences of an inexact bearing or for the fact that, for any reason whatever, a bearing could not be given. [750] §10. These administrations shall notify, for insertion in the nomenclature of stations carrying on special services, the character- istics of each radio direction-finding station, indicating for each one the sectors in which bearings are normally reliable. Any change concerning this information must be published without delay; if the change is of a permanent nature, it must be communicated to the Bureau of the Union. [751] §11. In the exclusively aeronautical service, the procedure de- termined in this article shall apply, except when special procedures determined in regional agreements by the governments concerned shall be in force. [7521 §12. (1) The normal radio direction-finding wave in the mari- time services shall be the wave of 375 kc (800 m). All coast radio 1573 Time signals; notices to navigators. Radio direction- finding stations.

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