Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-25
RADIO POLICEMAN
TO Be BUILT SOON
Terrell to Leave Tomorrow
to Select Site for Monl-
toring Station.
ny MARTIN CoDEI,.

~ A3HF'ANNfHA'''
,svns viii stand lirremittent watch
for sources Of radio interference when
trp Federal Government establishes
us master monitorinS station at a
rf>int near Omaha. Nebr. William d.
Tc,r.u radio chief Of the Department
If Commerce. Will leave Washington
sunday 10 select a site Tor The station.
SuDfrScnsit;vc receiving apparatus
tune6 20 sweep the whole range of
radio freoueNcicS from 10 10 10000
meters will be installed n tire station,
The monitors will thereby be able 10
defect All radio signals, whether code
or telephone and whether they origin
sted in this country or abroad.
Supervisor Terrell will first 60 TO De-
.rnit where he will confer with the
disiyicr Federal radio supervisor, S.
" Edwards who Is the designer Of
.he aHnaratQS III i'll bed. Edwards
has been unable to work recently on
This and other projects that have been
launched by the Government for the
r,,rrnSe al setting up a more effective
rstyol Of the channels Of radio.
rlan Special Building.
Tentative plans. according to Terrell.
rail- .oy The erection of building Spe-
call. constructed without steel, which
rSfEtiJ 6DSol u lLlCDlti51tS StshAoAo' AZ A'N-'
h. situated in the open, clear OF any
sou,ces Of interference such as broad
casting stations or power plants.
Housed in the station viii be the most
sensitive and most selective radio re-
ceivtnc sets ever maze, They VIII nave
quartz CRYSTAL controls for checking ire
cuencv constancy and time controls
With electrical clocks for time frequency
carnations. A broadcaSting station de-
Waiting from its wave lengths VIII read
!Iv be detected and the deviation re-
corded BY the station StaH for the M
formation of the Federal radio autnorl-
ties
n il intended that the station shall
be- able 10 tune m practically every
American broadcasting station OF SUD-
stantiai power. but an even more mn
rortant function will be TO MAINTAIN
check on the freQuencieS used py 40
nestle and foreign radio telegraph sta
tons. Definite data will be neeoeo. ac-
cording to Terrell. in cases OF priority
disputes that will inevitably arise over
international mterferences on the iar-
reaching long and short waves
Disputes to Be Arbitrated.
Such disputes must be arbitrated by
sneciaI boards prescribed in the inter-
national radio telegraph treaty. Wnlcn
was signed in Washington last year ano
which becomes effective next January /
Edwards is The designer also OF the
test cars used by the radio DIVISION 10
n,o1,itnr broadcast waves in different
naYts of the country and check radio
station field strength. Terreh
nclnced that two more OF these cars
are being built to add 10 the Tour now
working out of Chicago, Detroit, Atian-
"a and San Francisco.
The Department Of Commerce raolo
chief also announced that new district
Offices are about to be opened IN Los
Angeles. Dallas and Kansas City. Eitner
z W. Iovejoy or Benjamin Wolf. new
supervisors at San Francisco. VIII De
assigned to the Los Angeles office. For
es; Redfern. brother of the late super
visor. Otto Redfern. at Seattle, VIII
leave New York shortly TO take charge
of the Dallas office. w. j. Macdonald:
now assistant inspector al Chicago, VIII
20 to Kansas City.
Offices were opened recently at Bull
falo and Duluth. the. latter for the ou-
ration of the navigation season on tne
Great Lakes. An ONCE VIII later DC
opened in Denver.
Working steadily at its reallocation
nroiect Tith the aid Of experts called
In 10 advise with its own stan OF en-
gineers. the Federal Radio Commission
took time from that task today TO issue
two important general orders ana 10
render decisions in Is more cases OF
small broadcasting stations.
Reassignment Planned.
One general order extended until
October | all broadcaSting licenses with
the exception of those Of stations ad-
verseIy affected by its decisions IN the
recent cases The other was blanket
extension of all point-to- point raoio
telegraph licenses until November !.
The extension of the broadcasting
licenses indicated that no reallocation
will be ordered effective before the
new licenses are reisSued. Members OF
the commission say they have about
reached an agreement on plan for
reassigning stations on basis Of zonai
equality as prescribed by the Davis
equalization amendment.
Twelve of the sixteen decisions were
favorable TO the stations involved. The
commission ordered license renewals
for stations WKBI. Chicago: WDZ,
Tuscola. H.: wSGH-WSDA, Brooklyn.
" Y: wWRL. Woodside, n. Y. WIES,
Elizabeth NJ j. wMBS, Union City,
" j.: WGCP. Newark. n. j; WLAD,
Philadelphia; WAY. Cleveland.
wFJC. Akron. Ohio; WJBK. Ypsiianti,
Mich: WOBZ. Wierton w Va
The licenses Of WKBQ. New York,
and WEDC. Chicago. were renewed,
but their powers ordered reduced. The
former was cut from 500 10 $50 watts
and the latter from 500 10 100 watts.
License renewals we're denied WTRL.
Midland PARK. n J.. and WPEP, Wau-
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