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He ini Radio News Service
5/8/46
RCA BY-PASSES SUNSPOTS ON NEW N.Y. -MOSCOW RADIO ROUTE
Establishment of a powerful automatic radio relay station in the International Zone at Tangier, by-passing one of the world's worst magnetic storm areas and providing a new high-speed communica¬ tions route between New York and Moscow, was revealed by Thompson H. Mitchell, Executive Vice President of R. C.A. Communications, Inc., in New York City. He said that successful tests of the circuit have been completed and service will be initiated shortly.
By means of the Tangier relay station, Mr. Mitchell said, RCA engineers have taken a major step in solving the problem of providing uninterrupted service between the United States and the Soviet Union. He pointed out that the direct New York-to-Moscow route passes so close to the North Auroral Zone, or magnetic storm area, that shortwave radio signals fail to get through when sun spot-generated storms occur.
The new alternate patn is 1,300 miles greater than the direct route, but tnis means an increase of only 1/143 of a second in travelling time for the radiotelegraph signal which has the speed of light, Mr. Mitchell said.
The magnetic storms resulting from the occurrence of sun spots can now be predicted in advance of the actual disturbances, and the circuit New York-to-Tangier-to-Moscow provides a route wnich circumvents tne most highly disturbed region of the auroral zone through which signals over a direct route from New York to Moscow must pass.
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SAVES STATE DEPT. SHORT-WAVE; NEW RADIO SETUP SOON
Democrats in the House last week defeated the efforts of the Republicans to cut $10,000,000 off the State Department appropri¬ ation which would have killed the plan to set up an international information service. They also voted down a proposal of Representa¬ tive John M. Vorys ( R) , of Ohio, which would have banned interna¬ tional news broadcasts after September 1 without Congressional authorization. This amendment also would have prohibited spot news broadcasts which do not identify the source of the news.
In his plea to save the $10,000,000 State Department propaganda, and international broadcasting item, Representative Louis C. Rabaut (d), of Michigan, said:
"Unless this Congress passes new legislation and new appropriations for short-wave broadcasting before September 1 of this year, the radio voice of America, will be silenced.
"The gentleman from Ohio is trying to set a deadline for this Congress to act on a very delicate issue in our international relations.
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