Ship Becomes Roaming Radio Station -- The Coast Guard cutter courier, equipped as a roaming radio station to beam Voice of America broadcasts behind the iron curtain, is tied up to a Washington pier today. Mounted on her decks are more than a dozen antennas, including four shaped like inverted pyramids (center and left) and 10 on the stern (right) sticking in the air like buggy whips. In the center of the deck is a flat area from which barrage balloons will life the antenna for the ship's main transmitter, a 150,000-watt medium wave set. The Courier will operate in Friday waters as close as possible to Russia. March 02, 1952. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).