Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-10
JOURNAL is INSTALLING
NEW RADIOPHONE STATION
RIVALING WORLDS BEST
New Apparatus of WSB Lat
est and Most Powerful
Manufactured and Sold for
BroadcaSting Purposes

public in general and to the radio
world in particular that all of the
equipment for it's new and power
full radiophone broadcasting sta
ton has been received and is now
being installed on the fifth floor
of The Journal building.
The Journals new set is the
last word in radio telephony, built
by the Western Electric company,
the only organization authorized
under the patent laws to build and
to sell this equipment When this
1ew apparatus shall have been put
in operation within the next few
days, WSB will be the equal in
range and power of any radio sta
ton in the United States devoted
entirely to broadcasting for en-
tertainment and educational pur-
poses. The Journals new broad
casting set is the same type Of ap-
paratus that is now being used by
WWJ of the Detroit News and by
the new station of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
in New York city, except that The
Journals station will have the
benefit of new improvements and
refinements recently worked out
oy the Western Electric company's
engineers.
Similar apparatus to that being
installed for The Journal has been
ordered by the Kansas City Star,
the st. Louis Post Dispatch, the
Louisville Courier-Journal and tho
Chicago Daily News.
The Atlanta Journal was the
first newspaper in the southeast
ern states to recognize the import
ance Of radio and to buy, install
and put in operation its own
broadcasting station. The Jour-
nal was the second newspaper in
the United States to install q
broadcasting station and today
it is the only newspaper in the
southeastern states operating its
own station.
Most Powerful in South
The present equipment Of WSB 10
twice as powerful as that of any
other station in the south, and the,
new last word and last minute equip.
ment Of the Western Electric COM
pany, now being installed on the
fifth floor Of The Journal building.
under the Supervision of the Western
Electric company's own engineer.
will deliver five times as much
power to the antennae as The Jour.
nails present station. The in.
creased power and the many refine
ments and improvements Of the new
equipment will not only enlarge by
many miles the territory covered by
WSBs broadcasting but will un.
doubtedly greatly improve the quail
ity of tone and voice transmitted.
AS soon as the new apparatus or
WSB is in operation, the old equip
ment, which will be held intact, will
be turned over to the Atlanta Radio
club to be operated by the cluN
under amateur license 4KF. Soma
time ago The Journal rendered the
Atlanta Radio club the use Of itB
radio auditorium for its club SEES
sions and it has now rendered the
club the use of a complete radio
phone broadcasting set for the pleas
ure and instruction of its members
and in the hope of stimulating the
development of radio.
When The Journal became con-
WINGED many months ago OF the
future of radio telephony, a careful
survey Of the broadcasting equip.
ments available was taken for the
purpose of supplying Atlanta with q
station fit to rank with any on the
continent. Determined that the best
was none too good, a contract was
closed with the Western Electric
company for station Of the same
general type as that by which COM
munication was carried on recently
between Deal Beach, N. j., and the
steamship America" far out on the
Atlantic. The apparatus for The
Journal, or WSB as it is officially
listed in the government call book,
was received in Atlanta Monday and
Tuesday. Tuesday night F. s. Bern
hard, engineer of the Western Elec-
trio company, arrived personally to
direct it's installation. The apparatus
is now being ass embed as rapidly
as the delicacy Of the work will per-
nit, and The Journal will in a few
days announce the formal opening Of
the new station.
Best Engineers Built 1t
That the new radio broadcasting
set of The Journal will prove a boon
to the thousands of receiving sta
tons in this city and the surround
ing states is certain. 1t las been
planned by and manufactured under
the supervision of the very same en-
gineers who, taking up this latest
phase of communication science on
a large scale in 1915, startled the
world by establishing vocal contact
between Arlington, Va, and Paris.
France; Colon, Panama: Honolulu
and San Diego, Cal, and who during
the war contributed materially to
the radio telephone developments
undertaken by the army and navy.
For many years the engineers Of
the Western Electric company in
their capacity as the manufacturing
experts of the Bell Telephone system
have been conducting all sorts Of