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WHERE THE ARMY GETS THE NEWS OF THE WORLD European Intercept Room, Signal Corps Radio Station, Washington, D. C.
UNCLE SAM IN RADIO
The Most Extensive Radio Equip,ment of Any Government in the World. The Signal Corp's Continental Net. The Navy's Shore Stations and International Net, the Work of the Bureau of Standards, the Post Office, and the Bureau of Markets
By DONALD WILHELM
STEERING manless airplanes b / radio — theAirService is doing that. Steering, starting, and stopping a n anI less ship, by radio — the Navy has do.ie that. And guiding torpedoes through the air from planes, and through the water from planes and from ships, by radio — Uncle Sam is also doing that.
But these are only a few of the things Uncle Sam is doing, by radio!
Sending forty telegrams each way along two contiguous wires that at the same time are being used for four telephonic conversations — General Squier, of the Signal Corps, is doing that. And guiding vessels and airplanes to port — no matter what the weather — by radio — Uncle Sam is doing that.
Up aloft Army and Navy planes chat with one another when twenty miles apart, and
with land stations when 300 miles away, by radio. I sat in a radio shack on an aviation field, near an amplifier and beside the bride and mother-in-law of an air officer drilling a flock of planes overhead, by radio — and we heard the officer so plainly that the receiver had to be turned off!
Out in the West, Army cloud punchers, clipping the welkin for the Forest Service, report forest fires — even moonshiners! — by radio. And then comes an Army-Navy football game and long before it starts — by the clock! — bets are being settled in far-away Manila, by radio.
But all this isn't all!
The Navy is being run, by radio, and is finding ways not only to detect sounds under water by radio but actually to communicate with submarines under water. It has radio compasses for airplanes, and direction finders.