The Washington times., 1923-05-25
STATION
PLANNEDAT
OAKLAND
General Electric Co. to Erect
6roadcasting Plant on
Pacific Coast.
BY Cosmopolitan News Service.

BY Cosmopolitan News Service.
SCHENECTADY, N. Y, May 20.
Faith in the permanence Of radio
broadcasting is demonstrated by the
announcement of the General Elec-
trio Company today that the first
plant to be constructed exclusively
for popular broadcasting will be
erected in Oakland, Cal, to house
the large Pacific coast station OF
that company.
Work will be started Immediately
on a two-story studio building, the
antenna towers and the power
house. workmen are already as
sembling the radio equipment. It
is expected the new station will be
in the air within six months.
Martin p. Rice, director Of broad
casting for the General Electric
Company, will direct the operating
policy of the station, and DR..
Thomas Addison. manager OF the
company's interests on the Pacific
coast, will have supervision Of the
plant.
The station, adjacent to the Gen.
eral Electric Company's factory, Will
be located on East Fourteenth
street, Oakland, the site having
been chosen because of it's technical
advantages. the availability OF mu'
steal talent and the proximity or
the site to San Francisco.
Will Use Two Studios.
There will be two studios on the
second floor Of the station, the
main studio large enough to accom-
modate large bodies Of musicians
such as a band or symphony or
chestra and a smaller studio from
which solo numbers and addresses
may be broadcast. The use of two
studios will make possible continu-
Gus broadcasting. Research is now
being carried on to determine the
reverberating qualities Of the ideal
studio in order that the proper
amount of dampening may be &c.
cured in the Oakland studio to as
sure maximum musical quality. The
radio control room will be on the
second floor.
One thousand feet back of the
studio building will be the power
house and antenna system. The
antenna will be multiple-tuned ard
strung between two steel towers,
each $50 feet high and $50 feet
apart. Beneath the antenna prop
er will be the counter-poise consist
ing OF a network Of wires, fourteen
feet above the ground. covering an
area of $50 by 800 feet. In addi-
ton to the power house which will
be one-story high, II by 80 feet.
there will be a small building for
the tuning apparatus and the end
of the multiple.tuned antenna.
The transmitting set will be SINH
lar to that which is now heard al
most nightly from WGY, Science
tady, N. Y.
To Operate On 1000 Watts.
The Pacific coast station will be
operated at 1000 watts. but the
equipment will be designated in ex-
cess Of that power for purposes Of
conducting tests. In operating
high-powered equipment below nor
NAL rating in broadcasting, tubes
and rectifiers are not subject to &C.
casional overloads and. as a result,
superior quality and greater reli-
ability of transmission are obtained.
Six motor generator sets will be
placed in the powerhouse and these
will supply filament and plate cur
rent for the oscillator, modulator
and kenetron rectifier tubes.
Every part Of the equipment In
the powerhouse and in the control
room will be in duplicate, assuring
uninterrupted service.
There will be six tubes in the
kenetron rectifier assembly, one
metal plate oscillator tube a nd one
metal plate incubator tube. The
control room in the studio building
will have three stages of speech
amphfication made up Of Two five
watt tubes and four fifty-watt
tubes. A fourth stage of amplifica-
ton will be installed in the power
house.
Will Use Remote Control"
1t Is probable that an auxiliary
studio. connected with the trans
hitting equipment Of the station
by telephone lines, will be located
in San Francisco.
BY means Of what is known as
remote control" the facilities OF
radio broadcasting station NAV
now be brought to a banquet hall,
theater or church, and the audience
heretofore limited to the seatinr
capacity of hall or church, is mIi.
tlplleo many times. The church Is
connected to the transmitting eou,n-
ment by telephone lines and controI
of broadcast material lie maintained
In the church by operators.
The Pacific coast station of the
General Electric Company will mi.
lize remote control" to broadcast
| church services and musical enter.
tainn 1ents from San Francisco snd
! Oakland, ~''~