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LEFT: AN RfA TElll NllIAN. WdKKlNG HICII ON THE Sl'I'ERSTRl'lTl'KE, ERECTS A TELE- VISION ANTENNA KOR ONE OF THE TV RE- CEIVERS ABOARD A CANADIAN CARRIER. CREW OF A CANADIAN WARSHIP WATCH PRO- GRAMS ON RCA TELEVISION RECEIVERS IN- STALLED IN MESS-HALL. WITHIN a few hours after three Canadian warships had tied up at Pier 2(5. North River in New York, in a courtesy visit to the city last April, crack crews of RCA Service Company had completed in- stallation of nine RCA television receivers in the officers' and men's quarters aboard the vessels. Con- siderinK the unusual problems in- volved, the installation is believed to have set a speed record in carry- iuK out an extensive installation of this kind. Queen of the flotilla, the Magnifi- cent, a 682-foot liKht fleet aircraft carrier was returninK to its base at Halifa.\ after participating with British and U. S. Navy units in joint exercises in the Caril)l)ean. Her escorts, the MiriiKir. a 271S-ton destroyer and the Siranxva, a 1-110- ton friKate, had sailed from Halifax a few days earlier to accompany the carrier into .New York. Plans for "Operation TV" were worked out rapidly after the Cana- dian Consulate in New York had exprea.sed a desire for the receivers. Klaborate arrangements already had been made for the city-wide entertainment of the crews during their five-day stay in i)ort, but only part of the personnel could be jriven shore-leave at a time. Because of Television Entertains Visiting Canadian Naval Crews RCA Technicians Complete Extensive Installation of Receivers and Antennas in Record Time this, the Consulate believed that television would serve as a diver- sion for those remaininff aboard ship. The Magnificent, with its crew of 100 officers and 800 men. tied up at the pier at 11 o'clock on the niorn- injr of April 7. W'aitinjr on the dock were six RCA Service Company trucks, fully manned with experts in antenna installation and set serv- icinjr. Earlier, trucks had unloaded 10 of the latest models of RCA television receivers in both table and console models. U'ithin a few minutes after the jranKPlaiik had been placed ;i);ainst the side of the carrier, some of the RCA techni- cians were aboard and roamintr throujrh the bijr ship, seeking loca- tions for receivers. Others climbed hiffh into the upper ri^'jrinjr looking' for suitable antenna sujiports .-imonR the maze of cables and signal lines. After the two escftrt vessels were berthed, other Service Company crews boarded them and went throuKh the same prwedure. So well organized was the work that by late afternoon nine television sets were in operation. The tenth was held in reserve, but was never used. One of the real problems encoun- tered in the jiroject was the lack of an adetpiate power supply for the receivers. F'or technicial reasons, the power jrenerated aboard the shiiis could not be used. When the .Naval Shipyard at Brooklyn learned about this difficulty, a spwial de- tachment, under command of Lt. Ci. A. Krickson of the Planninjr and Estimate Group at the Yard, laid temporary cables alon^ the dock and to the receivers on each ship. The interest of the ships' person- nel in television projrrams proved jrreater than was anticipated. Ward rooms and miss halls often proved too small to accommodate the audi- ences attracted by the video pro- >: r a m s, particularly jiick-ups of sports events. [30 RADIO AGEj