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6/13/39
TELECAST OF KING AND QUEEN TRAVELS 130 MILES
In a little shack atop Pinnacle Point, a 1,600-foot elevation in the Helderberg hills about 12 miles from Schenectady, a group of 20 farmers from New Scotland and Altamont saw the King and Queen as they inspected the New York World* s Fair better than 99 percent of the million or more people who were actually present at the Fair. The images of both Their Majesties were flashed instantly and clearly by television over the 130-mile airline space between New York and the television receiving equipment installed by General Electric engineers on top of this hill.
Contrary to the theory that television can be picked up but 40 or 50 miles from the point of origin and at no spot beyond the horizon as seen from the transmitter antenna, General Electric engineers received the complete two and one-quarter hour program of the King and Queen’s visit to the Pair as telecast from atop the Empire State Building. Even though the telecast originated at about 1,300 feet elevation in New York and was received atop a
I, 600-foot hill, the "line of sight" was still 8,000 feet above
the receiving antenna, according to C. A. Priest, General Electric's Chief Radio Engineer.
"We feel there was nothing accidental about this recep¬ tion even though it seems to be contrary to the rules of television". Mr. Priest explained. "In two preliminary tests, we picked up the complete program as telecast by NBC in New York, and both picture and voice were received very clearly. I really don't believe we will have any trouble in receiving television programs sent from New York, even when the airline distance is 130 miles and we are a mile and a half below the line of sight. "
The receiver, of standard G. E. type, was set up in a small shack hurriedly erected atop the hill. Power to operate it was supplied by a small gas-driven generator hauled to the spot.
A special directive antenna was erected, diamond in shape, on four poles 40 feet above the ground. This covered in all a space of about 300 by 600 feet. The spot is located about two miles from the new high-power television station that General Electric is building, which is expected to be in operation early in November.
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RADIO NOTABLES AT ROYAL PERYLON RECEPTION
Among those in the radio industry who had the privilege of attending the reception which followed the luncheon to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Perylon Hall at the New York World’s Fair last Saturday were:
Mr. and Mrs. Merlin H. Aylesworth, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
J. McCosker, Mr. and Mrs. William S. Paley, and Mr. and Mrs.
David Sarnoff.
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