Show I Will Arrive 1 They're Working ODD or It ft Now w By BAUKHAGE News New Analyst and wad Commentator L. L t WASHINGTON IS Is television here to stay That has been the favorite crack in AM regular broadcasting broadcasting broadcasting broad broad- casting circles for some time Now its it's been displaced by another J. J Will arrive of i If It it doesn't say the enthusiastic stratospheric promoters millions of people in rural areas will be unable to receive television programs for years If U ever V What Is It simply The he system puts the antennae and television transmitter in an nn airplane flying in 4 i lazy circles above the earth they explain and the sent out from this airborne antennae blankets the earths earth's surface surface sur sur- face like a great inverted ice cream cone and covers an area approximately approximately miles milesa across a Since television i waves travel in hi a BAUKHAGE straight line and not in Ira high leaping loops like long long- wave radio their range is limited just as human sight is limited You cant can't see nearly as s far on a level city street as you ou can from the top of a mountain That parallel isn't an exact one but its it's a good rough comparison So television waves have to travel on a special cable underneath the ground cc axial co-axial axial cable or else leap from one high tower to another another an an- another other microwave relay And the farthest they can travel Is some 35 to 50 miles But waves come from a transmitter as high as the plane carrying the transmitter transmit transmit- ter can fly feet well we'll say What about storms Well the say they ml miss mis most of them at that height and anyhow they can use more than one equipped plane so they can shift the point of 01 transmission of a program from one to the theother theother theother other and thus dodge the storm They insist that they have al already already al- al ready demonstrated that this is possible that the they can deliver I haven't seen any of the recent tests so I dont don't know Naturally I the old timers although the oldest old timers in television are still pretty pretty pret pret- ty new are skeptical After a test t held recently in Zanesville Ohio for the benefit of newspaper and radio radio ra ra- ra dio folk many were still skeptical I It was admitted that conditions on the test day were not ideal idea by any means and it was claimed that there was vas Interference from other stations which would be eliminated Variety magazines magazine's correspondent a n keen observer of radio said Demonstration proved that the higher the altitude the clearer and more extensive the pick pickup For all c practical purposes though the specific specific physical certainty of the underground underground un un- un axial co-axial or the thru the air microwave relay would seem to have the networking edge for the time being 4 Ai Be UBe not the first by whom 1 the Is tried new j JoI The backers of the new system Westinghouse Radio Stations Incorporated Incorporated Incorporated In In- think differently Their vv r This is the experimental strato strato- vision station station station-a a modified B 29 flying at an altitude of 25 X O feet request for a commercial license was turned down by the FCC last month but the they expect requirements requirements require require- ments meats to be altered Glenn Martin whose aircraft company thought enough of the idea to work out the developments of the aviation end said Flying the transmitter Isone is isone one of the greatest single advances advances advances ad ad- vances In the history of sion slon I 1 talked with one of the very earnest young men who are attempting at at- atIt atI I It tempting to convert the skeptics He seemed to have no doubts that the method equalled any other In fact he thought that competitors would fight it because it was so sc good The whole thing is a young mans man's idea He Is C. C E. E Chill Chili Nobles year old radar expert whose work in that field was a valuable wartime wartime war time contribution He Is a Texan Texar I hence the nickname I suppose and the thC story Is that the Idea firs firs struck him when he was flying a a S plane high above l his home borne As he be ran over the various figures fig Og t ures which were In the back of hi his S mind the number of miles his home homi S was wa from rom the nearest big city th the S altitude and the various other cati cal cal- calf ti t f k I J. J formulae logarithms logarithm and assorted humorous material which an electronic engineer toys with instead in instead in in- stead of reciting limericks to himself himself him Wm self to pass away the time he suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly thought If It I only had a television transmitter with me and my folks had a set and if I had some somo other planes for lor relays they could get tho the same television television sion programs New York does docs I II suppose long hours of intense work on military radar had so crowded my ray mind with details details' of its operation that I looked for radar possibilities in everything I saw the young creator said afterward Radio already had proven its adaptability and value for airplane communications andin and andin andin in navigational aids including blind flying Turning these facts over ocr mentally I 1 concluded that Westinghouse Vesting house houie already had at hand basic engineering information which seemed to justify the ambitious plan II He sold the idea to Westinghouse and Glenn Martin and they went ahead and backed his extensive not p F- F C. 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E Nobles originator of 01 the airborne television system is shown shoun at the twin video monitoring boards in the experimental mental strato plane to say expensive experimentation I caught some of the enthusiasm which I know Chili must radiate from the young man who sat across the table from me explaining the drawings Think of what would mean to the readers of your column column column col col- col- col II he said We uWe Ve only asked for a license forone forone for forone one station but with more we could link up the Pacific and Atlantic coasts so that we could pick up Hollywood and New York studios I dont don't know why he left out Chicago Chi Chi- cago cage with only eight planes flying miles apart By adding six planes to the system to cover the Northwest and Southeast we could serve 78 per cent of the population tion II And once we got the rural looking I thought what a lot of new material would be put into the telecasts to say nothing of the greatly broadened market for television sets and advertising which would be created The first experiments established the surprising fact that there were lots of television sets in areas which could not possibly be reached ordinarily by coaxial axial cable ca ble or microwave At the first call for tor response to the test programs programs programs pro pro- grams many letters came from such areas Probably amateurs amateur who had built their own sets and perhaps erected their own antennae anten anten- nae nac on some high elevation It would seem that the country is willing to try the Nobles experiment experiment ment if it it gets the chance a a S The Russians after claiming that not Marconi but a Russian invented wireless telegraphy now are saying saying say say- ing that the electric bulb the flashlight flash light the transformer and el electric electr welding all started in Russia Next thing you ou know they'll claim an in invention in of ot the one thing which could make Ananias turn in hi his grave S S S STo To get the most fun and enjoy ment from bicycling it is well tc know a a few simple things about buying one says the bicycle information in in- In formation bureau One thing H if might be well to know is whether you have nave enough money to pay foi fos it S S S The biggest microscope cant can't se sethe sel the cold germ but you can hear a 3 couple of thousand coming in a sneeze S S S I The type garden apartment Is Is' the latest thing in tenant convenience says the Urban Land Institute About the only thing I was ever able to plant in an apartment was a ac at electric light bulb but any Wash Washington Washington Washington ington flat dweller can raise quit quita a herd of buffalo moths oJ |