Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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LISBO Iron Ciirrain Is Pcnerrarcd b\ i^owcrful RCA Tninsmitters W, ITH a giant half-mile-long antenna pointing the way with pin-point accuracy and force, the four RCA 50-kw high frequency transmitters located at the new Radio Free Europe Station at Gloria, Portugal, arc now hurling daily messages to vital target areas behind the Iron Curtain. Features of the RCA 50-kw units which made them particularly acceptable for use in Portugal include an efficient method of cooling the tubes by circulating air; amplifiers that were stable: ability to shift from one fre- quency CO the other with a minimum loss of time, and their compactness, a factor which reduced installation and building construction costs. The station at Gloria creates no programs, but for sixteen hours daily it re-transmits Radio Free Europ)e broadcasts to Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Albania, and other areas. The station is operated by Sociedade Anonima de Radio Retrans- missao (RARET), a joint Portuguese-RFE organization. Gloria was selected as the site of the transmitters because of its proved excellence as a position from which messages can reach Eastern Europe. The programs that are broadcast originate in Munich, Germany, where exiles prepare the scripts and read them into microphones for transmission by relay to the Gloria station. The relay is handled by two 10-kilowatt trans- mitters installed ten miles from Gloria. With the Gloria station completed and in op)eration. Radio Free Europe's programs can be broadcast simul- i-rJL nnfinnnnn From this short wave station at Gloria, Portugal, four powerful RCA transmitters beam Radio Free Europe messages across Europe and into iron Curtain countries. taneously, on different wave lengths, to Eastern Europe, using the facilities of six stations in Munich and Frank- furt in addition to those in Portugal. By transmitting over several frequencies. RFE is able to reach the maxi- mum potential audience in the Soviet captive states and thereby counteract attempts of the communists to jam the programs. "The expansion of Radio Free Europe, which started broadcasting on July 4. 1950. with a single low-powered transmitter, is a tremendous achievement." said General Lucius D. Clay, national chairman of the Crusade for Freedom. "Much of the credit for this hard-hitting campaign against Communism goes", he added, "to the American people who have given so generously to the Crusade for Freedom." General Clay also praised the government and the people of Portugal for their cooperation in making the Radio Free Europ>e installations possible and completing their construction in the record time of less than six months. RADIO AGE 5 ^