The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-10-03
Crime Bureau Announces
Frequency, Personnel and
Call Letters Of Neev Station
KIND To Operate on 1858
KilOcycles After About
October Is
"a Hour Per Day Service
With Is Minute Test
Signals Planned

KIND are the call letters of
Redwood Falls criminal appre-
hension radio station. Melvin C.
Passolt, bureau head announced
this week. By October Is the
station, Mr.. Passolt says, will be
ready to aid peace officers in their
war on crime. 1t will operate on
frequency of 1868 kilocycles.
Under state law, sheriffs of ev-
cry county are required to keep re
ceiving sets in their Offices set on
the wave length of the state trans
mitter "a hours day. AS many
official cars as possible will be
equipped and police and constablss
throughout the counties are being
urged to install sets where they
may be heard throughout the day.
At the station, guarded by two
heavy steel doors, always locked
for fear of criminal interference
with broadcasts, there will be a
"spot" map showing the location
of all sheriff and police radios,
thus enabling the bureau to have
any road blocked or district patrol
led at a moments notice.
Three operators have been hired.
They are Hugh Winter of Mime
apolis, Robert Hall of Wadena and
John Aupli of Mountain Iron, who
will work in eight hour shifts as
the station will be open "a hours
a day. Every Is minutes during
which there are no working calls,
test signals will be sent out in or
der to check the functioning of re-
ceivers and the transmitter. This
is common practice in police rad
ioing.
According to Putnam M. Smith,
supervisor Of the station, crime
broadcasts should not interfere
with reception of other stations
here. Modern receivers with prop
er antenna will be able to cut out
the station, he says, as it sends out
a sharp wave, and is crystal con-
trolled. He advises, for sets of
cheap construction and without
good selectivity, wave traps which
can be easily installed by any ser
vice man. The shortest possible
aerial should be used.
Any receiving sets which tune in
KSTP at IL or ,15 will be able to
get local broadcasts as well as
those which regularly get police
calls below the broadcast band.
Small home made crystal sets, the
type popular some years ago,
should be able to pick up broad
casts within a radius of five miles
Mr.. Smith says. About 20 states
will be reached through the SER
vices of the system during the
night and 125 mile radius of re-
ception is possible during the day.
K, first letter of the call, signi-
fies that the station is west of the
Mississippi river. All police sta
lions east of the river are identi-
fed with w.
Authorities warn against per-
sons rushing to the scene of the
crime after intercepting police
call under penalty of federal pro-
secution. United States law inter-
prets police wireless communica-
tions as being IS private as tele-
grams or letters. No one except
! the police or party to whom the
message is addressed has any
right to act as the result of infor-
nation received through police
broadcasts. If it can be proved
that interference with official duty
results from layman's intercept
ton of a call he is liable to ar
raignment.
AS yet no definite work in or
ganizing officers throughout this
part of the state has been done.