This photo won't be up forever but the article's title, from Short Wave Craft for June, 1930, is too wonderful not to share:
Short Waves Outwit the Oyster.
How about that!
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For determining a ship's position so that oyster beds can be found?
ReplyDeleteHow about that indeed!
I think it located them by the radio interference they supposedly caused.
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