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m^^^%^^?¥- v^w-,;*^^ .rf^i^V J »*»,■ I- , r»^i!ai HlLlDEN tlU<M 1 lit SKltS H\ CAMOUFLAGE NETTING AND I'ltOTlilTED liV STACKS UK SANDBAGS, THE KCAC RADIO STATION AT NAPLES, ITALY, IS BARELY DISCERNIBLE IN ITS WOODLAND SETTING. RIGHT—EDWARD FARNSWORTH AT THE RECEIVER. RCAC OPENS ROME STATION Neu) Radiotelegraph Service Links New York and Italian Capital in Direct Circuit—Equipment Installed by RCA a Week After City Was Liberated. DIRECT radiotelegraph service between New York and Rome, first of Europe's great war capitals to fall to Allied armies, was opened June 13 by R.C.A. Communications, Inc. Employing radio transmitting and receiving equipment shipped by RCA from New York to Italy in anticipation of the liberation of Home, the new communications cir- cuit already is greatly facilitating the flow of press dispatches, and Government and military messages to and from the Italian war zone. It supplements the direct service opened by ihe company between New York and Naples on Febru- ary 1. Following closely on the heels of the Allied occupation forces, a group of RCA engineers and oper- ators under the supervision of Thomas D. Meola, manager of both the Rome and Naples stations, moved their American radio equip- ment into Rome and had it in oper- ation just seven days after the Ger- mans fled the city. RCAC established the Rome sta- tion with the assistance of the Signal Corps, U. S. Army, at the rciiuest of and in cooperation with the U. S. Board of War Communi- cations and U. S. military author- ities. The Naples installation was the first wholly-owned American commercial radio station on the cimtinent of Europe, and the Rome station is the second. NIEL BECK TUNES A .STANDARD KCAC DIVERSITY RECEIVER AT THE NAPLES STATION. During the period from Febru- ary 1 until June 13, when the Rome station was opened, RCAC won high praise for its Naples terminal from news organizations in the United States for overcoming dif- ficulties in transmitting war news from the Italian front. Heijorts reaching the RCAC of- fices in New York told of a remark- able feat in which engineers of the company installed the station from scratch in less than one month and began flashing on-the-spot news accounts at a rate as high as 240 words a minute. Transmission of news copy to the United States mounted steadily until the daily capacity of the station e.xceeded 75,000 words. American war correspondents discovered that, once urgent mes- sages were passed by censors, the dispatches reached press associa- tion offices in New York by RCA in less time than it took to compose them. "Flash" copy and urgent bulletins often made the journey in as few as three minutes. [12 RADIO AGE]