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Heinl Radio News Service
11/27/46
MONTHLY SET OUTPUT INCREASES; FEWER TELEVISION RECEIVERS
October production of radio receiving sets broke all pre¬ vious monthly records and indicated that the industry’s output in 1946 will surpass that of its largest prewar year, the Radio Manu¬ facturers’ Association while radio manufacturers and broadcasters celebrated National Radio Week which began last Sunday.
RMA member-companies reported manufacturing 1,670,444 radio sets during October as compared with 1,323, 291 in September. The entire industry’s output in October, 1941, was 1,252,000 receivers.
If the present production rate continues through November, the industry’s highest prewar output of 13,642,334 in 1941, will be equalled, if not surpassed by the end of National Radio Week this year. November production will be the first postwar output free of price control.
The output of radio receivers with FM reception facilities also rose in October to a new high of 23,793 in October as compared with 17,541 in September. Television receivers manufactured in the same month numbered 827 as against 3,242 in September.
Production of radio-phonograph consoles, which have been held back by the scarcity of wood cabinets, continued to rise in October, reaching nearly 125,000 or 20,000 more than were turned out in September. This, too, exceeded the prewar rate for this type of receiver.
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INVISIBLE LIGHT RADIOPHONE IS DEVELOPED BY NAVY
Having a ’’line of sight" range as is the case with tele¬ vision, the Navy has made known the wartime development of the "infra-red" radiotelephone which is broadcast on invisible light rays.
Conversations can be held between nearby ships or from ship to shore. But the official explained the invisible rays will not penetrate fog, water or anything that stops a visible light ray.
The new discovery eliminates freak interception or inter¬ ference by an enemy miles away as was possible with ultra-high radio fre quencies.
The range of the infra-red telephone is limited to the horizon about 8 miles from the bridge of a destroyer. But in a land campaign, messages could be relayed from point t© point over country impassable for wire-stringing crews and where radio calls might be intercepted.
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