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7/24/34
PROVIDE PRINTING SYSTEM FOR POLICE RADIO
At a meeting of the Radio Club of America in New York, the first public disclosure of a simple automatic printer for police radio service was made by W0 H. G. Finch*
Mr. Finch's work has developed out of his extended research into printing telegraph systems for the daily newspapers which have in successful operation a number of radio circuits on a basis providing competition with existing wire circuits, transmitting daily thousands of words of press matter*
The device of particular interest to police, or other mobile services, because it provides a permanent record, is a printer weighing 8 pounds, operating from the 6volt automobile car battery, printing 35-40 words per minute on a tape. Thus the officer in the car need not worry about local audible interference; and his memory need not be taxed or handicapped by other local circumstances. This device, when properly actuated by the distant transmitter, will print out the message from headquarters and retain it as permanent proof that it was actually received in the care
This printed tape record, proceeding behind a simple lens or other projection system, is magnified so that it can be easily read by those in the police car.
Signals from the transmitter, which need be no more powerful thaft present voice-modulated apparatus, may be coded automatically, changed from day to day if desirable, and decoded automatically at the receiver in the mobile installa¬ tion. Others listening in could not unravel any of the mes¬ sages from headquarters, insuring secrecy with advantages to the police system that are obvious.
The applications, as an automatic printer, to the dissemination of weather reports to aircraft in flight, or to infervessel communication in a fleet, such as the fishing fleet off Grand Banks, or among Naval vessels or Army networks in other words to all mobile or stationary points to which teletype might be employed are but natural extensions of the police radio usage.
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