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Show ' AIRPORT'S RADIO ' TO BE jMPROVED Salt Lake City's municipal airport, one of the largest terminal station! in North America. Tuesday waa in line for additional Improvementa. According to an Associated Press dispatch from Washington. D. C, the bureau of air commerce purchased pur-chased $246,900 worth of radio equipment to modernise Its airport facilities in 90 cities, including Salt lake City, 1 Although natnre of the equipment was not disclosed and no word had ' be'n received here by the local air navigation district, C. C. Lange. district manager, aaid he thought I the order waa for simultaneous ra-f ra-f dio range installations which per- mit a plane to receive both voice & and radio range signala at the same U time. The installation. In that case. I would include another radio trans-1 trans-1 mitter and associated equipment at ' the airport. I Pilots then will be able to hear both range or "on course" signala and voice signals simukaneously, or by pushing a switch coold eliminate elimi-nate one or the other on the same radio receiver. At the present time planea are equipped with two receivera, one for voice and the other for range reception. Such an arrangement would per- weather reporta and coda "on course" signala at the aame time, a great boon to p. lots in "dirty" weather. I The dispatch said the contract was let to the Westinghouse Electric Elec-tric company and provided for delivery de-livery of the equipment in approximately approxi-mately 200 days. |