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The strength of Blaw-Knox towers shows up under severe conditions. It is revealed in low maintenance cost, and — ultimately — in much longer life. And what the structural engineer has done to make these towers sound and strong, the electrical engineer has done to give them the extra efficiency that means wider radio coverage. Add pleasing appearance due to correct designing — ■ and you have the three extra values of Blaw-Knox towers. We'll gladly discuss your antenna problem with you. Write or wire.
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OF BLAW-KNOX COMPANY FARMERS BANK BLDG. PITTSBURGH. PA.
Offices in Principal Cities
STRICTLY UTILITARIAN in this modern age is the North Caro brushhook lightly fingered here by this trio superintending construe of the new 50 kw. FM outlet, W41MM, atop Clingman's Peak, N. C. Mount Mitchell. Posing with lunchhooks on the brushhook, used to c about a mile of mountain trail to the peak, are (1 to r) Glenn D. Gil Washington consulting engineer; Gordon Gray, owner of WSJS, Wins ^ Salem, and licensee of W41MM; and Lewis Windmuller, assisting Gray in promotional development of the new FM station. Construe on the road leading to the transmitter site started about Sept. 1. liminary test operation of the new outlet with 3 kw. power is expe by the first of the year, with full 50 kw. operation by fall of 1942.
W71NY TO BOOST POWER TO 10 KW,
W71NY, New York, FM addjunct of WOE, on Nov. 30 will start operating with power raised from 1,000 to 10,000 watts. The first broadcast employing the new 10 kw. Western Electric transmitter will include a special dedicatory ceremony at the transmitter, 444 Madison Ave., with Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Maj. E. H. Armstrong, inventor of the Armstrong wide-swing FM system, and representatives of the Army and Navy attending.
A feature of the opening ceremony also will be transmission of a part of the program via an electric light beam in place of land
wire. Charles Singer, WOR tr' mitter supervisor, and WOR C! Engineer J. R. Poppele have 1 testing light beam transmisi for some time to determine its^ fectiveness as an emergency al native for land-wire transmiss WOR started its FM broadcas in March, 1940, with an experir tal station, W2X0R. W71NY rently has a daily independj program operating schedule a.m. to 11 :30 p m.
W.")3PH. FM station of WFIL. P delphia, which went on the air 10 with seven commercial spon, will release a regular rate card week of Nov. 24. The card provide a basic hourly rate of $60 with same schedule of discounts that plies to WFIL.
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