Radio daily (Jan-Mar 1938)

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6 Friday, January 28, 1938 RADIO DAILY: STATION-STUDIO and TRANSMITTER EQUIPMENT NEW DEVICES and IMPROVEMENTS Latest Technical Developments and Activities in Radio and Tele vision Double Cast Is Used In Television Opera London — A double cast — one to mime the action before the camera, the other to sing the words — was used in a recent BBC television experiment, producing Act 2 of “Tristan und Isolde.” Dallas Bower, who produced the show, believes that the Wagnerian ideal of perfect sympathy between action and sound can be more easily achieved by television than in the theater, where the demands of the music are so great that it is rarely possible to combine first-rate singing with a worthy standard of acting. With television, however, it is possible for the visual actors to give full attention to the stage picture, while the singers are free to concentrate on the music. The experiment made possible some significant innovations in the treatment of operatic scenery. Instead of confining the action to the front of a castle, as in stage versions of the opera, hunting scenes, televised against a background of trees in Alexandra Park, were interpolated in the transmission. Consequently, the visual actors were given considerable freedom of movement while their parts were being sung ‘off-stage’. Comes Through a "Flood" New Britain, Conn. — A virtual “flood” failed to stop WNBC here. In fact, the excess amount of moisture greatly increased the station’s signal strength, when more than three feet of water surrounded the transmitter house and tower recently. The situation was caused by a night of hard rain. Reporting at 6:45 next morning, chief engineer Rogers Holt was obliged to wade through the water to reach the building. He found the transmitter in A-l working condition with no damage to the equipment. WSAR Gets Amplifier Fall River, Mass. — WSAR has installed a new Western Electric 110-A program amplifier which has made remarkable increase in signal strength. Mail responses indicate that the program reception is much better and clearer. CHARLES ROSS, Inc. Formerly Motion Picture Lighting and Equipment Corp. WE FURNISH Electrical Lighting Equipment of Any Kind FOR RADIO STATIONS 244-250 WEST 49th STREET New York City Tel. Circle 6-5470-1 N I >V PATEN Radio and Television Compiled by JOHN B. BRADY, Attorney Washington, D. C. 2,106.159 — Automobile Radio Apparatus. Wilhelm Runge, Berlin, Germany, assignor to Telefunken Cesellschatt fur Drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H. 2,106,172 — Vacuum Tube. Philip M. Haffcke, Washington, D. C. 2,106,204 — Wash Box Discharge Control. Edward J. Burnell and Ward J. Heacock, Chicago, III., assignors to Link-Belt Co. 2,106,207 — Automatic Volume Control System. Alfred Crossley and Herbert E. Meinema, III., assignors to Johnson Laboratories Chicago Inc. 2,106,229 — Preselector System. Dwight V. Sinninger, Chicago, III., assignor to Johnson Laboratories Inc. 2,106,250 — Television Receiver Tube. Max Knoll, Berlin, Germany, assignor to Telefunken Gesellschaft fur Drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H. 2,106,394 — Metal Tube Lead-In Bushing. Loris E. Mitchell, Bloomfield, N. J., assignor, by mesne assignments, to RCA. KWNO, Winona, Minn. Has Latest in Equipment Winona, Minn. — Latest and best of equipment, attested by quality of reception, seem to bear out the claim of KWNO here to ranking with the nation’s best local stations. The station made its debut recently, completely equipped by Western Electric. A six-page supplement in the Winona Republican-Herald, signalizing the event, gave special notice to its acoustically treated studios, program amplifier, 199-foot antenna tower, and the modern decorative scheme of its studios and offices. Radio fans from points as widely separated as New Jersey, West Virginia, and Montreal have written to praise the quality of reception. A. E. Mickel is manager of the station and Maurice Reutter is chief engineer. Both come from KFJB, Marshalltown, la. Emergency Unit Gets Test San Francisco — Recent power break put emergency unit of KSFO here to its first real test — and brought the station through the 80-minute trial v/ithout a loss on either local or network productions then scheduled. Only 40 seconds were lost, the station reported. The 75 KVA plant not only provides full power for the transmitter, but for building and tower lighting as well, and is the only unit of its kind on the coast. Plant has been given daily warm-ups since last September under direction of chief engineer R. V. Howard. Refinish WJSV Studios Washington — Earle Building studios and offices of WJSV here are being completely repapered, repainted, recarpeted and “dolled up” generally. New control rooms for two studios and complete new furnishings for reception room and speakers’ studio are included in setup. WICC to Hold Open House For Its New Haven Studios Bridgeport — Effective with the dedication of its new studios in New Haven at 1110 Chapel Street tomorrow, New Haven listeners and residents will be invited to visit the new studio building and — when possible— be admitted to view the production of programs originating in the studios. Designed to include the most modern and complete equipment of both radio broadcasting and radio housing, the two-story single building will be used to produce many studio programs over the local broadcast band, as well as Yankee, Colonial and Mutual Broadcasting networks. Explorers Report on Radio Scientists of the MacGregor Arctic Expedition will discuss their study of the recent effects of magnetic disturbances on radio broadcasting in an exclusive NBC short-wave broadcast from Reindeer Point, Alaska, over NBC-Red network on Tuesday, 2:45 p.m. This first scientific report on the manifestations of the magnetic circle will include results of observations made during disturbances that disrupted short-wave radio, and also will cover the effect of the aurora borealis and the relation of weather to the magnetic currents. The aurora borealis was believed to be at least partly responsible for the failure of a broadcast from the MacGregor Expedition to the NBC audience on Jan. 19. Since then, short-wave test signals to NBC have been of poor quality and MacGregor has reported that until the magnetic disturbances clear it will be impossible to transmit clearly to the United States. He sets Feb. 1 as the earliest possible date for satisfactory contact. Cost of Facsimile Still Unknown, Says Poppele J. R. Poppele, chief engineer of WOR, yesterday told RADIO DAILY that “no one can say how costly facsimile will be until it has been tried.” Poppele was referring to a statement by Elliott Roosevelt, president of Hearst Radio, declaring that facsimile was too expensive to become a serious competitor of newspapers. WOR is studying the facsimile question and plans to have a scanner in its transmitter house before long. Poppele said that receivers today can be bought for $100 to $125. And with increased production of the product, after it is past the experimental stage, receivers possibly may be obtained for as low as $30. At the present time, according to Poppele, the FCC is only granting experimental facsimile licenses. When the FCC arrives at a standardization of equipment, progress will be more rapid. The scanner which is attached to the transmitter in order to transmit the message costs from $1,500 to $2,000 today including all the development charges. KTUL Improvements Tulsa, Okla. — Additions and changes in equipment totaling about $65,000 are planned by KTUL here if FCC approves power increase. Transmitter will be moved to location five miles from Tulsa and a directional aerial will be used. THE CLIMAX OF A C ... is a perfect engraving . . . expertly made and promptly delivered. PHOTO ENGRAVING CORP. 250 WEST 54th STREET. NEW YORK Telephone COlumbuj 5 -6741