Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-26
WIRELESS SERVICE
TO BE LAUNCHED
Ten Stations of System to
Compete With Telegraph
Open in December.
BY MARTIN CODEL.

Ten stations of the Universal Wire
| less Communications Co., which is
forming a nationwide radio-telegraph
network to carry messages in the public
service in competition with the land
| telegraph systems, will be in operation
shortly after December l, according to
statement by Hilton j. Blanchard Of
Buffalo, general manager Of the COM
pany. Five of the stations, Mr.. Blan-
chard said are now in operating order,
and the work CT installing equipment in
the five others will begin Monday.
The five cities in which installations
are reported complete are New York
| City, Chicago, Buffalo. Cincinnati and
Detroit. Buildings are finished. but
apparatus must be installed at Colum-
bus, Dayton. Milwaukee, Peoria and
Springfield, Ill. Business Offices have
been acquired in all these cities, and
when linked they will form the first
| operating unit of the new radio system,
! the general manager said.
Stations to BE Added
Mr.. Blanchard also announced that
shortly after December / his company
will add stations at Cleveland. Akron,
Trenton, New Brunswick, Boston and
Providence. These should be operating
by January /, and additional stations
then contemplated will be at Baltimore,
| Norfolk and Memphis.
| under its grant CT Short-wave channels
from the Federal Radio Commission,
must have 10 stations in operation by
the end of this year, proposes to have
at least Is, according to Mr.. Blanchard.
| The company has until the end of 1882
to @E,0 @%I
have been projected to cover the leading
cities in every State in the Union.
Universal obtained its grant of cham
| nels from the Federal Radio Commits
sion about year ago on the repre-
sentation that it could utilize each Of
| the wave lengths then standing to five
fold its normal capacity; that is, each
wave length would be used to carry five
messages where it then carried but
one.
Since the time of the granting Of
| these channels the technical experts of
| the world have agreed at a conference
at The Hague, Holland, that narrow
spacing of channels was technically
feasible, but they narrowed the widths
to only half of the former standard.
Demonstration Is Public.
The apparatus to be used in the sta
Strated publicly for the first time this
week at the Chicago Radio Show. Com
plete transmitting and receiving units
were on display. In addition the COM
pany exhibited a large map of the
United States showing the various cities
the system will ultimately serve. These
include:
Albany, N. Y; Amarillo, Tex; Athol,
Mass; Atlanta, Ga: Atlantic City, N.
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las, Tex; Denver, Colo; Duluth, Mimi;
Elko, New; Fargo, N. OAK; Augusta,
Me-; bakersfield, Calf; Billings, Mont;
Fresno Calf; Grand Forks, N OAK;
Galveston, Tex: Harrisburg, Pa; Hart
ford, Conn; Helena, Mont; Birming-
ham, Ala; Boise, Idaho Burlington,
Vt; Butte, Mont; Carson City, New;
Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Houston, Tex;
indianapolis, Ind. Jackson. Miss;
Jacksonville, Fla; jefferson City, Mo-;
Charleston, S. c.; Charleston, w. Va;
Chattanooga, Tenn; Cheyenne, Wyo.:
Kansas City, Mo; Lacrosse, Wise; Lin
coin, Nebr.; Little Rock, Ark; Los An
geles, Calf, Louisville, KY: Madison,
Wise; Medford, Greg: Miami Fla;
Minneapolis, Mimi; Mobile, Ala; Mo-
line, ILL.,; Montpelier, VT; Muskegon,
Conn; New Orleans. La; North Platte,
Nebr.; Oklahoma City, Okla; Omaha,
Nebr; Palm Beach. Fla; Philadelphia,
Pa; Pierre, S. OAK; Phoenix, Ariz;
Pittsburgh, Pa; Pocatello, Idaho; Ponca
City, Okla; Portland, Me-; Portland,
Greg; Rock Springs, Wyo: Sacramento,
Calf; Salt Lake City, Utah; San An
gelo, Tex; San Antonio. Tex; San
Francisco Calf; Santa Fe, N. Mex;
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich; Savannah, Ga;
Schenectady, N. Y: Seattle, Wash:
Shreveport, Ill; Spartanburg, S. c.;
Spokane. Wash: Springfield, Mass;
Springfield. Ohio; st. Louis. Mo-: Tam
pa, Fla: Tucson, Ariz.; Utica, N. Y;
Waco. Tex; Walla Walla, Wash;
Wichita, Tex: Wilmington, Della; VIM
ston-Salem, N. c.; Washington, D. c.,
and youngstown, Ohio.
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