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ITT Mackay Marine Hosts Product Display And Discussion On Key Marine Communication And Navigation Issues

Participants shown above surrounding the ITT Mackay Marine Telex Equipment are, North American Philips; E.A. Engebretson, host, ITT Mackay Marine; J. Tedaldi, left to right: H.R. Smith, host, ITT Mackay Marine; D. Wise, guest, Gulf Trading guest, Moran Towing & Transportation; M. Bennet, host, ITT Mackay Marine; Com- & Transportation; Jim Luse, exhibitor, NCS; P.B. Withstandley, guest, Swann Oil; mander Sutherland, guest speaker, U.S. Coast Guard; R. Bedham, guest, Farrell

R. Zalonis, host, ITT Mackay Marine; H.F. Hayes, host, ITT Mackay Marine; J.J. Mil- Lines; A. Panisello, guest, Exxon Corp.; I. Opgaard, exhibitor, North American ler, host, ITT Mackay Marine; S. Brigham, host, ITT Mackay Marine; M.R. Giroux, Philips, and F. Shunaman, guest, The Radio Club of America, host, ITT Mackay Marine; E.J. Bizub, host, ITT Mackay Marine; S. Berte, exhibitor,

ITT Mackay Marine, a division of International Telephone and

Telegraph Corporation, located in

Elizabeth, N.J., recently hosted a

Communication/Navigation Prod- uct Display at the Downtown Ath- letic Club in New York City.

One of the products demon- strated was the ITT Mackay Ma- rine Telex Equipment, MRU-35AT and MRU-50BT. That equipment incorporates the North American

Philips STB-750 SITOR unit for unattended operation, automatic error detection and correction, and Selective calling on Marine

Telex. ITT Mackay Marine was successful in "working" coastal station PCH in Scheveningen,

Holland; WCC in Chatham, Mass.; and their own experimental sta- tion in Raleigh, N.C., using this error correction marine telex sys- tem.

Other live demonstrations were shown with the Selenia Radar, both 16-inch and 12-inch displays; the NCS Satellite Navigation Re- ceiver; Alden Marine Facsimile, and Modar/Triton VHF. Equip- ment on display also included the new channelized programmable

RF Communications RF-230 SSB

Transceiver, Micrologic ML-1000

Loran C, Dynell Omega 400, and

Standard Communications Hand

Held VHF/UHF units, as well as

ITT Mackay Marine's standard line of products, including 3020A and 3021A Receivers, 5003C Auto

Alarm, 222 VHF, and EPIRB.

Presentations were given by

Commander Sutherland of the

U.S. Coast Guard on the proposed

New York Vessel Traffic System;

H.R. Smith of ITT Mackay Ma- rine on current and proposed U.S. and foreign legislation; J. Luse of

NCS on Maritime Satellites, and

S. Berte of North American Phil- ips on SITOR.

NEW YORK PORT ENGINEERS MEET —The Society of Marine

Port Engineers, New York, N.Y., Inc., met at the Downtown Athletic

Club in New York City on November 15. B.F. Nixon, Texaco Inc., served as meeting coordinator, and the subjects discussed were "Up- dating of Machinery Research at MarAd," by F.X. Critelli, U.S. Mari- time Administration, and "A New Solution to Tube Inlet Erosion/'

Corrosion Problems-Condensers, Etc," by K. McParland, Condenser

Technology, Inc. Shown above, seated left to right: Russell Magna,

Northeast Marine Terminal Co., Society chaplain; F.X. Critelli, speaker; Louis V. Minett, American Bureau of Shipping, president of

The Society of Marine Port Engineers, and Kevin McParland, speaker.

Standing, left to right: John C. Fox Jr., Exxon International Co., Inc.;

Thomas Young, United States Lines, Inc., 2nd vice president of the

Society; Thomas Jones, Farrell Lines Inc., chairman of the board of the Society; John Antonetz, Texaco Inc., Papers & Technical Com- mittee chairman, and Edward English, Atlantic Repair Co., Inc., secretary-treasurer of the Society. PAKK ON 5/r>/F V/5MJTW COMO^

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