The Radio Girls on Station Island: The wireless from the steam yacht
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A group of resourceful young women explore early wireless technology while organizing a radio concert to raise funds and enjoying everyday social life. When a mysterious wireless call summons a friend, the girls launch island outings, boating expeditions and emergency searches that involve storms, drifting craft and tense rescues. Technical detail about regenerative sets, detectors and radio control appears alongside gossip picked up on the air, showing how signal interference and the inability to reply complicate matters. The narrative emphasizes teamwork, practical ingenuity and courage as the adolescents learn to send, interpret and rely on radio communications to find and save those in danger.
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