Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1941)

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8/15/41 Also, W67NT , Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., New York, N.Y. , iias applied for modification of C.P. for new H.F.B. station for extension of completion date to 3/88/42; W67C . CBS, Chicago, Ill. , has applied for modification of construction permit for new HFB station, for extension of completion date to 3/14/42; WKAL, Inc, applied for construction permit for a new station to be operated on 1080 kc. , 1 kw, daytime hours of operation; James F. Hopkins, Inc. Ann Arbor, Mich. , construction permit for a new station to be oper¬ ated on 1050 kilocycles, 1 kilowatt power, daytime hours of opera¬ tion; Etowah Broadcasting Co. . construction permit for a new station to be operated on 860 kilocycles, 250 watts power, unlimited time; Ke.nnebec Broadcasting Co. , Augusta, Maine, construction permit for a new broadcast station to be operated on 1400 kc., 250 watts, un¬ limited time, requesting facilities of WDRO. Also, WCAR, The WGAR Broadcasting Co. , Cleveland, Ohio, has asked that its application for construction permit to make changes in equipment and directional antenna for day and night use, change frequency from 1480 to 1220 kc. , and change power from 1 KW night and 5 KW day to 50 KW day and night; amended: redirectional antenna and move of transmitter from Cuyahoga Heights to Broadview Heights Village, Ohio. Also B. S. Sadler. New Bern, N. C. , has applied for con¬ struction permit for a new broadcast station to be operated on 1340 kc. , 250 watts, unlimited time; The Continental Broadcasting Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, ha-s applied for construction permit for a new broa.dcast station to be operated on 610 kilocycles, 1 kilo¬ watt, directional antenna, unlimited time. XXXXXXXX FCC OETS CLOSE-UP OF ALERT RECEIVER The Radio Corporation of America demonstrated its new "Alert Receiver" to members of the Defense Communications Board, Federal Communications Commissioners and staff at the FCC offices in Washington yesterday (Thursday), the brass hats at 10:30 and the staff, plus newsmen, at noon. This is a type of receiver that is turned on automatically by subaudible frequencies, and can be used to signal fire wardens and others on call in the civilian defense program. It had a thrill¬ ing debut last month when De.vid Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America, and Mayor LaGuardia, National Director of Civilian Defense gave it a try-out in a two-way short-wave con¬ versation from New York with Major F. W. Jackson of the London Fire Brigade and W. B. Breet of the LondonCivilDe fense in London. Finally the British were allowed to hear exactly how the new radio air raid warning sounded, first with the bell only and then as Mlayor LaGuardia said: "With the bell, the siren and all of the works. " The noise almost took the roof off the place. Mayor 8