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Show TWO-WAY RADIO SYSTEM IS BEING INSTALLED HERE An extensive two-way radio com munications system, presently being be-ing installed, is expected to improve operational efficiency at Kenne-cott's Kenne-cott's world-famous Utah mine in Bingham Canyon and related ore haulage operations. The $157,000 installation will equip ore and waste locomotives and other mobile equipment at the mine with radio sets operating on' two frequencies. Some 100 individual indi-vidual sets will be involved. An additional 25 sets will be installed in-stalled in the I I locomotives and supervisory and maintenance vehicles ve-hicles of the ore haulage department depart-ment which transports the ore rom the Copperton Yards at the mouth cf Bingham Canyon, 16 miles to the ore concentrating mills near Magna. To further insure adequate radio communications with other phases of operations, other sets will be installed at Copperton Yards, Cyprus, Cyp-rus, the Utah Magna Mill and the Utah Smelter. The system is expected to be in operation by July I, said F. C. Green, general manager. It will be coordinated with present and future fu-ture central traffic control facilities facili-ties also designed to improve operational oper-ational efficiency. 1 he two frequencies at the mine will allow two-way radio communication commu-nication between the dispatcher control stction and a specific locomotive loco-motive or vehicle as well as general gen-eral communications on a wave band open to ail sets, it was explained. ex-plained. The dispatch control station sta-tion for the mine will be located at Copperton. The transmitting and receiving tower will be located on a mountain peak north of Copper-ton. Copper-ton. For ore haulage operations, the dispatch control station will be located lo-cated at the Utah Arthur Mill near . Magna. The transmitting and receiving re-ceiving tower is presently being installed in-stalled atop the Kearns building in downtown Salt Lake City. |