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NAVIGATIONAL AIDS AND COMMUNICATIONS equipment manufacturers displayed their latest wares at the First Port of New York Conference and Exhibit on those subjects. Representatives of the exhibitors are shown above. The exhibitors were: Alden Electronic & Impulse Recording Equipment Co. Inc.; Automated Marine

International; Communications Associates, Inc.; COMSAT General Corporation; Digital Marine Electronics Corporation; IBM General Systems Division; ITT Decca Marine; lotron Corporation; Kelvin Hughes, a Division of Smiths Industries Inc.; Konel Corporation,- Magnavox; Navidyne Corporation; Raytheon Marine Company; RCA; Simrad

Inc.; Smiths Industries Inc.; Sperry Marine Systems; Tracor, Inc., and the United States Coast Guard.

First New York Port Navigational Aid &

Communications Conference Is A Success

More than 16 of the world's most renown manufacturers of navigational aids and communi- cations equipment recently dis- played their wares at the first such Conference and Exhibit ever to be held in downtown

Manhattan, New York City. The three-day exhibit, and the all-day seminars on those subjects con- ducted by panelists expert in their fields, was held in the Sea- men's Church Institute and was sponsored by the Maritime Asso- ciation of the Port of New York.

The two principal speakers at luncheons during what is planned to be an annual event, were:

Adm. Sidney Wallace, USCG, marine transportation advisor to

Transportation Secretary Brock

Adams, who spoke on the need for more stringent adherence by vessels of over 15,000 tons to federal rules and regulations gov- erning their operations in Ameri- can navigable waters.

Charles Fisher, chief, Rules and

Legal Branch, FCC, who spoke of his department's work in revamp- ing many of the rules and regu- lations now in effect and its prog- ress on formulating many new ones in the field of communica- tions to promote safety at sea.

The panels covered the follow- ing subjects: Omega Navigation;

Satellite Navigation; Collision

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS at the Conference were, left to right: Ray Yturraaspe,

Griffith Marine Navigation, Inc.; Adm. Sidney Wallace, USCG; Adm. William F. Rea

III, USCG, Commander Atlantic Area, Third USCG District, and Maritime Association president Eric Guy de Spirlet, president of the Belgian Line, Inc.

Avoidance: Loran C System;

Shipping Fairways; Single Side- band Communications; RTCM (Radio Technical Commission for

Marine Service) ; Marine Facsim- ile for Marine Services, and Na- tional Vessel Traffic System.

Questions from the floor were answered by the panelists and resulting discussions served to expand coverage of every facet of communications and naviga- tion at sea.

Exhibitors at the event were:

Alden Electronic & Impulse Re- cording Co., Inc.; Automated Ma- rine International, Inc.; Communi- cations Associates Inc.; COMSAT

General Corporation; Digital Ma- rine Electronics Corp.; IBM Gen- eral Systems Division; ITT Decca

Marine Inc.; Iotron Corporation;

Kelvin Hughes, Smiths Indus- tries, Inc.; Konel Corporation;

Magnavox; Navidyne Corpora- tion ; Raytheon Company; RCA,

Simrad Inc.; Smiths Industries,

Inc.; Sperry Marine Systems;

Tracor, Inc., and the United

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