Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-19
STATION IS RATED
lAT $4,000 WATTS
Transmltter at Warsaw viii
Use Most Power of Any
b In Regular Operation.

As the Federal Radio Commission'l
hearings on high power closed, word
came from London that the British
Marconi Co. is completing tests at
Chelmsford, England, of . new trans
nlitter built for the Polish Broadcast
ing Co. which, when installed just out
side Of Warsaw, will be the highest
powered broadcasting station in regular
operation in the world.
The new Polish station Is rated at
$4,000 watts. This compares with the
Russian Komintern's 100000 watts and
the Italian Radio Roma'S 100000 watts.
The Warsaw stations two masts will
be 500 feet high and $50 feet apart, the
talleSt In all Europe.
Operating on the long waves, to
which the Canadians also appear to be
turning their eyes because of the
higher powers permissible and the po-
tentially greater areas Of coverage af-
1orded by long waves, the Polish broad
caster may point the way to the rest Of
the world as to the proper channels and
powers Tor good hroadcasting service;
long-wave broadcasting for North
America, but the obstacle Is the in
ability Of present broadcasting receivers
TO tune the low frequency channels.
100000 Watts Used in Test.
In this country, the highest power
regularly authorized is $4,000 watts, al
though KDKA, Pittsburgh, will soon be
on the air in after-midnight expert
ments with 10000 watts, and WGY,
Schenectady, has conducted such tests
with 2O0, 900 watts. The Federal Radio
Commission recognizes such high,
powered broadcasting IS experimental
only.
Fourteen American broadcasters have
been authorized to utilize the maximum
power Of $4,000 watts now allowed on
the brcadcasting channels. Twenty
seven others are eagerly seeking that
power. Though these 81 have contested
among themselves their respective
claims to the higher power, there has
been almost unanimous agreement
here that higher and higher powers are
one sharp note of disagreement came
toward the end Of the hearings, how
ever, when Oswald r. Schuette, secre-
tary Of the Radio Protective ASsocia-
ton, representing q group OF tnde-
pendent radio manufacturers, protested
60 the commission against the proposals
to open up all the 40 cleared channels
to 5O,000-watt stations.
Transmitter Permit Rescinded.
such superpower, he stated, would
destroy the usefulness Of the regional
and local stations on all intervening
channels. II, the commission should
allow high power on all the cleared
channels, Mr.. Schuette insists that the
s'superpower stations" should be grouped
together at one end Of the radio dial
90 that their "evil effects" win fall on
one another instead Of ON the smaller,
1ow-powcfed stations.
Coincident with this protest. It was
learned that the radio committee OF
Wayne Township, In Passaic County,
N J., had rescinded it, previous build
ing permit authorizing WAEC, the
New York key Of the Columbia Broad
casting System, to erect its new 10000
watt tranxnnitter there Alleged. protests
Of nearby citizens, who fear the blan-
keting effects Of the power Of the new
atations were given ae the reason.
Difficulties have stalked C0lumbiA's
every e1ROE6 70 nYad q sits Tor It's new
high-poWered transmitteY, authorized
early this year by the Federal Radio
Commission. Columbia, however, has
obtained an 0wder from the Supreme
Court Of New Jersey staying the Wayne
srOwnship committees new action, and
the network intends TO 90 forward with
atB building program unless the court
rules against it at its next session IN
January.