Show VERNAL TELEPHONE OFFICE INSTALLS 15 MOBILE UNITS S J fifteen telephones are ow now in operation in the lasin basin according to M 0 boxwell local locial telephone horie company lanager manager owners oem of vehicles containing thia this device may make contact with he switchboard at vernal fro from as far I 1 r anayas away as miles without stepping from their c car truck or jeep if the terrain is 13 right calls are made on a short shor t wave frequently through a 90 60 watt base bow station located on asphalt ridge four and a half hah milles west of vernal next to the small cinder block building stands t two aca poles on 00 top of rise two antennas one for or receiving and the other oat bof sending telephone messages on he the switchboard in the vernal telephone exi change the new mobile raol bile phones have already been used effectively by the bureau of land management in fighting forest fires as far away aa as 60 miles from the vernal office lElce of the units the ULM haa h two ore are much quicker than the old 02 style short wave used by t them in als patching men and guiv equipment M to 0 the scene of fires As soon as a fire tire Is re reported poTted sends send sout out a man in a car equipped with telephone sei service when he ie reaches the blaze I 1 he deter mimes mines the size and what will be nee needed led for the tire fire he can then quickly pick up his phone call the office at vernal and iball in no time at all has he the right number of men and he the proper equipment on the aix way B dk claims t in t two fir fire calls call ahey saved the amount of pon money which the equipment cost for installation and wa rent for a doryth allbut all but three of the titter mobile telephones belong to uintah county owners two of the die three W boier sets are in tn vehicles owned by the mendota oil company located just over the colorado border from uintah county ithe the other seit set has been installed in the of a doctor at Du duchesne chesaw complete equipment for a mobile set weighs lesa less than 80 pounds and operates by the use of fed from the car battery the me motor raises the 58 volts nf of a battery to an output of volts DC D C hand seta sets are located usually on the dash board with control relay and fuses under the hood and ahe selector set transmitter receiver and power unit in the tin trunk vernal is the second city in utah to have a mobile telephone system ins installed nearest service to vernal is salt lake city and Derr denver ver langely will probably get the service late this fall to make nuke contact with the vonnal the caller turns on his hi set allows allow B it t to wann up tor 30 seconds and then puts the receiver transmit ter to his ear and pres a fewox VU placing him on a line with the operator no additional is on the switchboard to handle mobile telephone I ephone calls venial vernal telephone office is now handlik han dUrig an average of eight call per day or about 56 calls per week cost of installation is 25 rent per month 13 L 15 and in addition the person having the set ki installed stalled must guarantee 20 calls per month for or another 7 which makes the minimum chaw charge per month 22 mobile telephone installation end and repairing is being handled handed at the vernal office by bombl nation men robert K eket me mid end theo W perkins perking who have attended special schooling on this type of telephone com muril cation |