Television digest with electronic reports (Jan-Dec 1959)

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14 GE Puis Sirings on Co-op Ads: a £oor under retail prices — to take the place, in part, of abandoned fair trade — is aim of new co-op advertising policy announced this week by GE’s radio & housewares division. Distributors were notified that GE would refuse payment toward co-op advertising of division products below specified minimum prices which are, in the main, 10-15% below suggested retail prices. W. H. Sahloff, v.p. & gen. mgr. of the division, said the new marketing policy is intended to discourage sales of its products at “unsound and uneconomic prices.” He emphasized, however, that retail dealers are “at all times entirely free to sell and advertise GE products at any price they may individually choose.” But in order to be eligible for co-op advertising reimbursement, dealers must keep advertised prices above the minimum established by the division. Said Sahloff : “Recently there have been examples where our products have been advertised at completely uneconomic levels. While dealers have the privilege of engaging in these detrimental practices, the company is under no obligation to share in the expense of such advertising.” GE’s TV division currently has no co-op advertising program. Meanwhile, Rep. Oren D. Harris (D-Ark.), chairman of the House Commerce Comm.ittee and a staunch advocate of fair trade, introduced the first bill in the 86th Congress (H.R. 1253) to put teeth back into Federal fair trade laws. His bill, on which he plans hearings this spring, would sanction manufacturers’ fixed prices under Federal law. This would eliminate the need for individual state laws which, in the past, have been declared unconstitutional at such a rate that manufacturers have found fair trade practices impractical. “Gadgetitis” is contributing to unreliability of military electronics as well as consumer products, EIA pres. David R. Hull told the 5th National Symposium on Reliability & Quality Control this week at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. He urged a return to “simple design” with both government and industry electronic scientists “aiming their sights at attainable goals” and “proceeding in the right direction by straightest and simplest course.” The military, said Hull, needs courage to resist the “insistent pressure” from many quarters to “do something fast” whenever the U. S. seems to be lagging in the international armament race, and industry needs courage to resist “ill advised military developments which cannot succeed and which usually end in damaging the reputation of the contractor.” Factory sales of transistors in Nov. dropped slightly below the record output in Oct., but total production for 11 months of 1958 was 60% ahead of the same 1957 period. EIA reports Nov. sales were 5,440,981 units vs. 5,954,856 in Oct. and 3,578,700 in Nov. 1957. Jan.-Nov. transistor sales totaled 41,423,114 with a factory value of $96,133,811 vs. 25,965,000 worth $63,120,000 sold during the same period last year. Defense electronics procurement in first quarter of current fiscal year declined from 4th quarter of fiscal 1958, but was considerably ahead of same quarter last year, EIA reports. Expenditures in first quarter of 1959 were $958,000,000 vs. $1.1 billion in 4th quarter, and $926,000,000 in first quarter of fiscal 1958. RCA plans new missile. & radar production center at Van Nuys, Cal., with cohipletion due by end of year. IRE Looks Spaceward: Space electronics again will be top drawing-card as nation’s electronics engineers orbit between Waldorf-Astoria and New York Coliseum March 23-26 for annual IRE national convention and show. Some 55,000 are expected to attend the 54 technical sessions and inspect the 850 exhibits. Highlight of sessions will include panels on Future Developments in Space, Psychology & Electronics in the Teaching-Learning System, Theory & Practice in Russian Technology, and Frontiers of Industrial Electronics. Though TV, radio — and even audio — don’t occupy the place of prominence in the meeting that they once did, they’ll still be featured in 5 of the 54 sessions. Reports of 2 TASO committees will be discussed at broadcasting session. Among panels and papers: BROADCASTING (2 sessions) — Raymond F. Guy. NBC, & Frank Marx, ABC, chairmen. Report of TASO Committee 3.3 on Correlation of Picture Quality & Field Strength — C. M. Braum, Joint Council on Educational TV, & W.L. Hughes, Iowa State College. Report of TASO Committee 5.4 on Forecasting TV Service Fields — A. H. LaGrone, U of Texas. Possibilities of Major Simplifications in Color TV Live Cameras & Recording Devices Through the Use of Chroma Field Switching and Subsequent Automatic Color Balance— W. L. Hughes, Iowa State College. New Wireless Microphone for TV Broadcasting — P. K. Onniglan, KBET-TV, Sacramento, Cal. TV Program Automation System Using Beam-Switching Tubes with Shift-Register Circuitry— F. C. Grace, Visual Electronics. FM Carrier Techniques in RCA Color Video Tape Recorder — R. D. Thompson, RCA Labs. Deleter-Adder Unit for TV Vertical Interval Test Signals — J. R. Popkin-Clurman & Frank Davldoff, Telechrome. Electro-Servo Control System Capable of Correcting ZeroPoint-Zero Five Microsecond Rotational Errors — Wm. Barnhart, Ampex. Transistorized Video Switching— J. W. Wentworth, C. R. Monro & A. C. Luther Jr., RCA. New Approach to Low Distortion in a Transistor Power Amplifier— H. J. Paz, RCA. COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING IN BROADCASTING — C. H. Owen, ABC, chairman. Transmission of TV Signals over a Broadband Tropo Scatter Link — L. Pollack, ITT Labs. Installation & Operational Aspects of a Private TV Microwave System — Aaron Shelton, WSM-TV, Nashville. Mobile Microwave TV Pickup Operational Experiences — G. E. Hamilton, ABC. Effective of Frequency Cufoff Characteristics on Spiking & Ringing of TV Signals — A. D. Fowler & J. D. Ingleheart, Bell Labs. 50-kw Antenna Switching System — J. W. Smith, Collins Radio. RADIO & TV RECEIVERS — R. R. Thalner, Sylvanla, chairman. Considerations in Transistor Automobile Receiver Front-End Design — R. Martinengo, Raytheon. A 5-Transistor Auto Receiver Employing Drift Transistors — R. A. Santilll & C. F. Wheatley, RCA. Improvements in Detection, Gain Control & Audio Driver Circuits on Transistorized Broadcast Band Receivers — R. V. Fournier & D. Thorne, RCA. Application of Rotatlonally Non-Symmetrlcal Electron Lenses to TV Image Reproduction — Douglas Taylor, Norman Parker & Neil Frihart, Motorola. High-Sensitivity Ultrasonic Microphone — Peter Desmares & Robert Adler, Zenith. CONTRIBUTIONS TO STEREO SOUND REPRODUCTION— S. J. Begun, Clevite, chairman. “Null Method” of Azimuth Alignment in Multitrack Magnetic Tape Recording — A. G. Evans, RCA Victor Records. 3-Channel Stereo Playback of 2 Tracks Derived from 3 Microphones— P. W. Klipsch, Klipsch & Assoc. Study of a 2-Channel Cylindrical Ceramic Transducer for Use in Stereo Phono Cartridges — Carmen Germano, Clevite Electronic Components. The “Single Stereo Amplifier” — B. B. Bauer & J. M. Hollywood, CBS Labs. Frame-Grid Audio Pentode for Stereo Output — J. L. McKaln & R. E. Schwab, Sylvanla. Design Considerations for Stereo Cartridges — J. H. McConnell, Electro-Sonic Labs. Status Report on Stereophonic Recording & Reproducling Equipment — W. S. Bachman, Columbia Records. IRE Officers & Directors: Treas., Dr. W. R. G. Baker, v.p.-research of Syracuse U; secy., Haraden Pratt, v.p. of Dualex Corp., N. Y.; editor of IRE Journal, John D. Ryder, dean of engineering, Michigan State U. Other directors: Lloyd V. Berkner, pres, of Associated Universities, N. Y.; Alfred N. Goldsmith, consulting engineer, N. Y.| Gordon K. Teal, asst. v.p. and research director, Texas Instruments, Dallas.