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Show Uintah Basin receives telecommunication qrant The Community Impact Board recent-y recent-y awarded the Uintah Basin $300,000 'tilth will be added to a $1.4 million ?t from the National Telecommunications Telecom-munications Information Agency all of hlch will be used to develop a mcrowave telecommunications system or the area. system will create a link with eiwommunications equipment in the K Lake Valley and the Uintah Basin. 'Ww station will beam the signal from Oquirr Mountains west of Salt Lake p over the Wasatch Mountains to atch County, Duchesne County, Uin-an Uin-an County and Daggett County. JhCrfSyStem iU be used t0 develP "y different communication systems. H into a computer system, students wted sites will be able to see, and p". by instructors from any of the 'cges in the state. This will allow a hi lnUmber of PP16 10 et instruction lcn ls now unavailable in the area. BrtlS. made in lhe Emergency This wu ystem t0 Dasgett County- Demrt comPlete one phase of the DC 1 of Transportation and cvment)f Public Services emergen-o'f emergen-o'f j: 6"1101-rapid notification in case '"iportanir "" f majr beahflrS' ''me te'ev's'on programs Basin u ' ori8'nate f rom the Uintah txclust l0Cal 9(luiPrnent, developed tah r1 y with the interests of the Uin-com Uin-com ,?s'" m mind. This will be ac-tniw!-h through an agreement with "on KlTPr,0' Utah P"01'0 Television Sta-Proeram Sta-Proeram ' Channel 7- Regular KUED PfORram'18 may be Preempted for ThesjgT , local interest or local origin. I'intah R Wl" on'y De received in the 'Wience w'n remainder of KUED's prgrammin COntinue t0 receive regular test'wuPbPer equiPment radio broad-liintah broad-liintah Ra ?ossib,e from any point in the Possible frn Direct te'evising will be Hal one inn three Points. One in Ver-f Ver-f Koosevelt and one in Daggett County. According to Dr. Robert Vincent, Public Services Specialist for the Uintah School District, the system will be practically prac-tically unlimited in learning potential. It is possible with such a system for a per- Continued on Page 2 Grant... Continued from Page 1 son to, through the use of a computer terminal, ter-minal, take a course with a live instructor instruc-tor from a point hundreds of miles away, take a disc out of the computer home to his own computer to work on the material, do what is necessary, receive feedback, and be awarded a grade and college credit, without ever leaving the Uintah Basin. "History has been made," said Dr. Vincent. "This opens a whole new realm of learning capability. We are excited to be a part of it." N |