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June 18, 1932
SHEPAED FIELD C/Jl DEMONSTRATED
Exhaustive demonstration tests were conducted this week in Washington with the portable field intensity measuring equipment of the Shepard Broadcasting Service of Boston, Mass. A number of the Commission personnel and others interested in broad¬ casting were present while engineers in charge made various technical surveys. Ex¬ planations wore given of the manner in which interfering fields are measured and the various methods of obtaining information on field strength data.
The equipment is used solely for stations affiliated with the Yankee Network in New England. During the two years it has been in service the field truck has traveled more than fifteen thousand miles, mostly in the northeastern part of the country. Paul A. Demars, Technical Advisor to the Yankee Network stations is in charge. Mr. Demars is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is former Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tufts College. Apparatus is now on order and will shortly bo installed in the field truck which will permit the automatic recordings of various field strengths. It is understood this is the initial installation of this sort in portable survey apparatus.
BAKER TC RUN POR CFFICE
Press despatches from Des Moines say that Norman Ba]ier, former operator of Station KTNT, Muscatine, Iowa, will run for governor of Iowa as an independent in November. He announced his intention to seek office in a letter from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where it is said he is completing a 150,000 watt radio station, KENT, v/hich he plans to use in his campaign.
N®7 NAB TELEPHONE MBI®
The telephone number of the National Association of Broadcasters has been changed from District 9497 to National 8470.
RADIO AIDS UNEILPLOYED
The radio is an effective agency giving guidance to those seeking employment, according to information made available by Maris M. Proffitt, Educational Consultant at the United States Office of Education, who has recently made a study of education¬ al guidance.
Both cormaercial and educational broadcasting systems periodically set aside tim.o for discussion of 3nplo3niient opportunities, Mr. Proffitt stated.
Interest in educational guidance has increased throughout the coimtry, ho ex¬ plained. State conferences are being held in some States, while in others, like Idaho, Maine and Ne?/ Hampshire, the problem of guidance is being investigated.