Flight statistics for the season are given in the following table: 

 Table l.-AERIAL ICE OBSERVATION STATISTICS FOR THE 1 954 ICE^EASON 



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COMMUNICATIONS 



Commander, International Ice Patrol communicated -itl-l^iPP;;!^ 

 during the 1954 ice season via United States Coast Guard Rad o 

 Argentia (NIK), and with various interested agencies ashore via the 



'tTbTetins were broadcast twice daily at 0048 and 1248 a M. T 

 on 155 5320, and 8502 kilocycles after a preliminary call on 500 kilo- 

 cyc es Eack bulletm was broadcast twice, the first time at 15 word 

 pe minute followed, after a 2-minute interval, by the second broadcas 

 a 25 words per minute. An automatic keying device was used on 

 these broadcasts. Special safety messages were broadcast on 500 

 kilocycles whenever it was imprudent to hold recently acquired ice 

 information until the next regularly scheduled bulletin was seirt^ 



Ice reports were sent twice daily at 0030 and 1230 G. AI T via the 

 teletype net to the United States Hydrographic Office Washmgton, 

 DC the Canadian Department of Transport, Halifax, N. S., and the 

 Royal Canadian Navy Radio Station at Albro Lake, N. b^ 



Merchant vessels communicated with Umted States Coast Guard 

 Raifo Argentia (NIK) by calling on 500 kilocycles o^ their assign^ 

 8-megacycle calling frequency and workmg on 425, 454, 468, oi 480 

 kilocvcles or their assigned 8-megacycle working frequency, NIK 

 worked on 432 or 8460 kilocycles. UnHline 



NIK sent or received 16,485 radio messages and 25,577 landline 

 messages during the 1954 ice season. Statistics concerning the 

 reports received during the season are as follows: 



Number of ice reports received from vessels b ^^^ 



Number of vessels furnishing ice reports ^ ^^^ 



Number of sea surface temperatures received ' 



Number of vessels furnishing sea surface temperatures ^^^ 



Number of vessels requesting special information 



Number of weather reports relayed to Observer, Washmgton..._- b 271 

 Total number of vessels worked 



