The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1929-01-31
RADIO-PHONE
! SOLUTION FOR
ALASKA HELP
Com. Addison Agrees with
Gov. Parks and Makes
Suggestion


After reading the views of Gov
George A. Parks on the great need
for increasing radio communication
facilities in Alaska, Commander
Edward S. Addison, in command
of the U. S. C. G. cutter Unalga
said today that it was his opinion
| that the solution of the Alaskan
Iinter-communication problem lay in
the radio telephone
"The Coast Guard" explained
Com Addison, has some 500
radio-telephone sets manufactured
in 1924 by the Western Electric
Company which sets, ever since
their installation in Coast Guard
units both afloat and ashore, have
been highly satisfactory"
These radio-telephone sets cost
about S1,700 each, and can be
worked from SO to 500 miles, al
Though it is now an established
fact that they have been worked
over a distance OF from eco miles
to 1000 miles with the voice and
can be worked further with 9
key.
Once properly installed and sci
for the correct wave length they
are practically fool-proof and need
no attention other than the carry
ing out of simple rules for care
preservation, and charging of or
binary storage batteries. Where
there is no. electric current avail
able a reasonable additional cost
for a very small Delco globe OF
Stearns generating unit run by
gasoline or water power, should be
added to the original cost.
Unalga Has Set
The U. S. G. G. cutter Unalga
is equipped with regulation West
ern Electric Coast Guard Radio
telephone set costing $500, adapt
ed to either battery or generator
current supply, and operating on
three wave lengths, G12 meters,
1915 meters, and 1911 meters)
which has been assigned to the
Coast Guard by the Federal Radio
Commission. These wave lengths
could not be used by private con
Germs but the Radio Commission
would undoubtedly assign fire.
quency for private sets. If can
neries in Alaska have somewhat
similar units they could be in
communication with each other and
with the outside world throughout
the year instead of just during
the summer months, said Com. Ad-
olson. Their Waterman could oper-
ate these sets and the money saved
by dispensing with the services of
a radio operator during the active
season would pay for the highest
priced radio-telephone set in about
two seasons.
The set ON the Unalga is in
touch with the other Coast Guard
units and it Is through it that
the officers and crew hear the AS
sociated Press dispatches every
night between $3.50 pm. and 4;30
am
Cheaper radiotelephone sets are
in constant use between tug-boats
and their owners on Puget Sound
and other bodies of water in the
States, although the results are
not as satisfactory as those OBJ
tanned from a standard set.
Construction
Radio-telephone sets may be
constructed at all sizes, intensities,
and costs. 1t was only few years
ago that a company of midship-
men. at the U. S. Naval Academy,
won competitive infantry drill,
in which, as far as spectators
were concerned. there was no COM
mands OF any kind given. Each
midshipman, however, had a ra-
dio-telephone set concealed in his
cap or his knapsack by which
orders, inaudible to the judges OF
the competition. were received
from a small broadcasting station
hidden in the rafters of the drill
hall.
DR.. Robert Simpson, of the Mug
get Shop, is contemplating the in
stallation of radio-telephone be-
+v,aan tha Nupeef Chon and his