Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-22
RAD|OPHOTO PLAN
BEING DEVELOPED
Navy Men Now Working on
Scheme That May Give
Speedier Messages.

Aboard the cruiser Seattle. flagship
OF the United States fleet, naval radio
men are "tinkering" with an adapta-
tation of the so-called Ranger radio
photograph system, which some eX-
merits believe one day will eliminate
the need of manual radio operators:
They are convinced that speedier ana
more accurate transmission of mes
Nages can be effected through the me-
dunn of pictures than through code.
The apparatus on the cruiser, now
stationed at Marblehead, is the only
combined receiver and transmitter of
photographs Vet tried, and its attach
Inent to ordinary ships radio for use
in the naval radio frequency channels
is being watched with keen interest
by scientists. T. w. Small, chief radio
man of the Navy, is in charge of the
device aboard ship, where V. 7. Bra
man. a civilian. has been sent by the
Radio Corporation of America TO help
adjust it.
Can't, Richard II. Ranger, formerly
of the Army Signal Corps, is the in
ventor of the system now being tried
out for its possible application to Navy
use aboard the ship that carries the
largest amount of radio traffic of any
vessel in the fleet. 1t is already in
use between New York and London
for the transmission of photographs
or facsimles. and a Newly ork-San
Francisco-Honolulu relay is also being
put into operation commercially.
During the fleet mancuvers ut Guam.
tanamo Bay, Cuba. while at the presi-
dental fleet review at Hampton Roads,
and row at Marbehead, contact is be-
ing maintained by the Seattle'S radio
photograph apparatus with both Wash
ington and with a Radio Corporation
station in New York. Transmission
and reception has been on both the
high and low frequencies-in fact, SO
Mr.. Small advised this observer dur
ing a recent visit to the ship, pictures
can be sent and received by the sys-
tenn in any channels of the Nays
broadcast band.
The best picture ever obtained was
transmitted to the ship from New
York while it was at Guantanamo.
said Mr.. Small. II was a photograph
of Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the
transatlantic flight. 1t took hour
and 81 minutes to send an almost per-
feet likeness, with New York trans.
hitting on a high frequency equal TO
22.6 meters.
Ordinary glazed paper is used for
the Photographic reception and there
is no chemical application whatever.
Light effects that are translated into
line drawings provide the key" TO
the system. The biggest problem. ac-
cording to Mr.. Small, is with fading
Just as in code and program broad
casting.
Edmund Audran's LA Mascotte"
The Mascotl, in tabloid form, will he
sung by the National Light Opera Co.
tonight as one of the featured attrac.
lions of Station WRC The soloists
will be Rosalio Wolfe, soprano; Fran
ces Paperte, meZzo-soprano: George
O'Brien, tenor; John Quine, baritone,
and John Oakley, basso
The Four Bards. a quartet new to
The radio audience, will carry on the
series of concerts started by the Ma.
tional Cavaliers Male Quartet, known
as Songs of the city" The quartet
will be heard at $50 O'clock.
The midweek organ recital tonight
will be played by George 3. Keeval.
organist of the First Methodist Church
of Westfield, y. j. Other attractions
scheduled by WRC include a talk by
Charles II. Knowles of the Smithso.
MAN Institution on THE Gold Coast of
West Africa" Hi-Lo Musical Moments.
the Ipana Troubadours and Eight
Minutes With David Lawrence.
Despite the advent of the first day
OF Summer, radio reception conditions
again last night were very satisfac-
tory. The wave lengths were particu-
larly responsive and signals from all
directions came through with good
volume and clarity. Static and fading
also continued to remain in the back.
ground