Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-03
NEXT
ADVANCE IN RADIO
Letters Will Be Transmitted
by Wire at Charge Based
on Square Inch.
BY MARTIN CODEI..


kilograms. for which charges may he
levied by the square inch, will he the
next commercial development in wire
and wireless communication. Minutes
instead of hours will he taken for the
facsimile trsnsmissions between cities.
making this service faster than the
fastest mail in the delivery Of type
written business letters. hand written
personal missives and the like.
Facsimile and picture transmission
by wires has long been past the
laboratory stage, but radio develop
nents along this line are only nov
emerging commercially. Close on the
heels of the contracts whereby the
Western Union and Postal will lease the
A. T. 81 T. telephoto facilities for fac
simile messages. the Radio Corporation
Of America is reported to be preparing
to enter the same field, using inland
radio circuits
The radio company has for some time
been operating circuits carrying pictures
and facsimile messages between New
York and London and San Francisco
and Honolulu It is now projecting
domestic service on an improved scale.
Already licensed to transmit expert
mentally between New York and San
Francisco. 1t proposes to extend these
radio circuits to other large cities In
the United States.
The Westinghouse laboratories have
developed a new synchronized trans
mitter and receiver for this proposed
system. On the transmitting end. the
signals are taken from a letter by light
rejecting from the surface, so that Arly
message can be sent fdenticaliy as Med
The receiving message Is printed az
positive which is Immediately available
for delivery upon the completion Of It's
development matter Of only few
| minutes.
Sent to Washington.
s. M Kintner. manager Of the West
inghouse research department has hec1
sent To Washington q sample copy -
facsimile letter with two solid pars
/ graphs of typewriter copy, which WIS
transmitted in 50 seconds. He states
| that 5x8-inch pictures can be sent in
little less than l minute.
/ The net result Of the Federal Radio
Commissions citation OF 1S4 broad
casting stations is that more than 100
/ are still on the air. most Of them hav-
/ ing proved their right to exist At the
recent public hearings.
Thirty-four never replied 70 the sum.
mons TO lay their cases before the board
and were Sllmmarily stricken from the
list Fifteen were deleted for failure ~
make a good showing.
! About a dozen power cuts we're Or
| dered. largely because the stations were
| situated in congested local areas. Four
PENNSYLVANIA stations obtained q pro-
. dictionary extention Of their licenses.
! pending observations to see whether
H. af--t@
| suggestion that they eliminate the per-
| sonalities that have been exchanged
| with rival stations via the microscope
to the extreme annoyance Of many lis
+ teners.
Drastic Ruling.
/ Perhaps the most drastic deietion or-
/ der was the refusal to renew the license
Of wMMB-WOK. near Chicago. a
5,0o0-watt station with . capacity Of 20
+ liilowatts. This was ordered on the
I ground that Chicago Is being over
served at the expense Of the rest IF
the country. and, m fact. ut the expense
Of its own radio listening public.
Pacific Coast brosdcaSting was prac-
! ticslly unaffected by the recent cits-
tons OF stations by the Federal Radio
Commission, only a handful Of minor
stations DSlI1R cuIilHiNtc0 tOK AHhutc
10 make q showing.
One of the problems facing Com
missioner Lafount is TO find . place
for the superpower station which the
newly incorporated Pacific Broadcast
/ ing Federation OF Los Angeles proposes
! to erect in Orange County. with re-
/ mote control studios in other cities in
California and in Nevada and Arizona.
With Stanch political and nulti-denom-
national church backing. the promoters
of this enterprise propose to broadcast
cultural programs as a protest against
the prevalent debsuchery Of the air. "
The West Coast has Eastern interest
focused upon IL also because OF the
proposed new network being projected
there by Adolph Linden. Seattle bank
err Mr. Linden, who was in Washing
ton this week. announced that he ex-
| pected to hook up q Los Angeles and
a Salt Lake station soon and perhaps
others later to the chain OF four sta
| tons which he already owns. This
chain comprises KGA. Spokane: KJR,
Seattle: KEX. Portland. and KYA.
San Francisco.