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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE, DELTA, UTAH T77, 77. Wonder """n TELEVISION DISCOVERS MAIN STREET New Electronic Science Born in Cottage r " j f TV--.'f foot UHF transmitting tower was erected outside the cottage. The in-terior was stocked with television transmitting equipment. Inside, it looked much like any other station, but its special tubes and circuits were designed for UHF rather than VHF channels now standard for video transmissions. Bridgeport was picked for the field tests because the undulations of its terrain make tele-vision transmission difficult. In ad-dition, it lies in a "fringe" tele-vision area, picking up remote sig-nals from New York and New Haven. Under these extreme test condi-tions, the Bridgeport station, which was given the experimental desig-nation of KC2XAK by the Federal Communications Commission, be-gan picking up the video signals of Station WNBT, the National Broad-casting Company's New York out-let which beams off the Empire State antenna. These signals, in turn, were rebroadcast via UHF to Bridgeport area. To pick up this broadcast, engi-neers of the RCA Victor Division designed and built 50 UHF experi-mental sets, and 50 tuners to per-mit present set owners to receive 'both UHF and VHF telecasts. The test equipment, together with various experimental receiv-ing antennas, was installed in lo-cal homes within a 25 mile radius of Success Hill. In about half the homes, there were no receivers and service men installed both UHF and VHF antennas. This permitted com-parison of the pictures picked up direct from New York and New Haven with those beamed over the Bridgeport experimental unit. There were hundreds of offers of voluntary cooperation from resi-dents of Bridgeport and its suburbs. The homes selected for the tests were carefully spotted to obtain a full area study. Engineers made regular rounds of the test homes over a period of months to analyze the pictures and to compile recep-tion ratings. But even this was not enough for a full picture. A station wagon was equipped with precise measuring equipment and receivers, and a truck was fitted out with a collapsi-ble antenna that could be quickly elevated. Making Signal Patterns Up and down parkways, high-ways, country roads and lanes, the unique electronic caravan rolled along with police cars fore and aft. Nearly all of the television in-dustry moved into Bridgeport on the invitation of RCA. Sixty-fou- r manufacturers, in fact, descended on the industrial town to use the UHF signals. In hotel rooms, homes, stores and display rooms the technicians of the industry de-signed and set up equipment that would pick up the unwavering sig-nal from Success Hill. They devel-oped tuners to be attached to pres-ent sets; they perfected new an-tennas; they devised effective equipment for combined UHF-VH- F reception. Members of the Federal Commu-nications Commission, headed by Wayne Coy, then chairman of the FCC, visited the workshop. RCA engineers and technicians main-tained a steady flow of information into the Commission headquarters, and on the basis of this technical data the plan for a national service began to take shape. In August and September of 1951, Mr. Coy and more than a hundred engineers from TV stations throughout Amer-ica attended demonstrations of the (This is the last of a series of three articles on the coming of a nationwide television service.) To the people who will receive this new ultra high frequency tele-vision service, various considera-tions will govern their selection of home equipment. In some areas, under the FCC plan, only UHF channel will be re-ceived. Present set owners, who have perhaps been picking up a distant VHF signal, will be able to purchase a simple and inex-pensive fixed channel tuner to go with their present sets. For residents of areas where sev-eral UHF channels can be received, full range tuners have been de-signed. In many new television areas, the projected coverage will include both types of service. And combina-tion UHF-VH- sets are likely to be the industry's answer. These sets will probably gravitate toward the major population centers since the allocation plan envisages both serv-ices in all but three of the country's 50 major market areas. In addition to tuners and com-bination sets, the public will prob-ably have an opportunity to pur-chase various types of antenna for UHF reception. In the course of their long experimentation, RCA engineers designed numerous ef-fective receiving antenna of re-markable varied shape. One of the simplest is known as a "bow-tie- " and looks just like an enlarged ver-sion of this male neckwear. Another is known as a "Double V", and con-sists of twc sets of dipoles (metal rods cut to a critical length) at-tached to a pole in the form of two Vs. There is a parabolic antenna, with metal bars attached to a curving semi-circul- shaft, and there is an antenna with the color-ful name of "Yagi." These are the antenna wihch in a few years might dot the rooftops of farms and ranches and city resi-dences. When new stations begin to go up, the industry will un-doubtedly standardize on a few of many experimental antenna mod-els, giving full consideration to both performance and sightliness. The industry has already made formidable gains in overcoming the problem of designing UHF station transmitters with sufficient power to provide required area coverage. The first test models were one kilo-watt, but units of from 2 kilo-watts are now being tested. Ample Power New gain antenna have also been developed, and the industry is look-ing toward UHF antenna that can radiate 200 kilowatts more than ample power to meet nearly all conditions. Of course, the UHF service has its limitations like every other service. UHF transmissions, like VHF, are dependent on line of sight between transmitting and receiving antennas. In addition, they are more directional and the location of transmitter sites is of prime im-portance. Mountains, hills and other physical impediments can block effective transmission. In addition to promising television to presently vacant areas, UHF of-fers new hopes for thousands of set owners who live in "fringe" areas. These areas are on the outskirts of the effective telecast coverage from present VHF stations. ,To obtain a home picture in these fringe areas, towering antennae are frequently required, and often the pictures are too faint and j "noisy," and lack the contrast re- - SUCCESS HILL The lofty antenna of the Bridgeport UHF station towers over the white frame station house at the left. In the foreground is a station wagon equipped with UHF re- -, ceiver and portable antenna. It has been used to test signal strength throughout the Bridge-port area. Station KC2XAK is the first and only UHF station in the country to operate on a regular daily basis. It Is lo-cated on the crest of Success Hill on Bridgeport's outskirts. quired for enjoyable home viewing. New stations are the obvious an-swer to fringe viewing, but if they are VHF stations they might con-flict with the signal, however faint, from the more distant VHF trans-mitters. With UHF, however, new sta-tions with new channels can go up in the very shadow of existing transmitters and a clear, bright pic-ture can be enjoyed by everyone. A small Cape Cod cottage which sits atcp a wooded hill on the out-skirts of Bridgeport, Conn., is the cradle of a new electronic science. For two years, field tests on the transmission of television signals in the upper regions of the air waves have centered around the cottage. Out of these tests has come a new system of video transmission that will soon have a very real impact on the life of residents of Tazoo City, Miss., and Thief River Falls, Minn., and Wolf Point, Mont. Center of Interest Despite its lack of pretension, the cottage has been a prime attrac-tion in recent months for govern-ment leaders, for scores of execu-tives in the radio and television in-dustry, for some of the nation's outstanding electronic scientists, engineers and technicians. Even the Connecticut StatevPolice have been lured there for extra-curricul-duties. Since December 30, 1949, the little cottage on Success Hill has housed the first and only Ultra-Hig- h Fre-quency television station in the na-tion which operates on a regular daily basis. It has been the field headquarters for the television in-dustry's march into the untapped UHF band. The station was built by the Ra-dio Corporation of America and the National Broadcasting Com-pany as the culminating move in a long campaign to find sufficient space in the air waves for a nation-al television service. A lofty. 250- - latest UHF equipment, xney saw a clear, flickerless picture brought in by a variety of tuners. At last UHF was ready. Mr. Coy spoke of 3,000 television stations in America "soon," with two-thir-to three-quarter- s' in the UHF band. "I am sold on UHF," the FCC chairman declared, and the in-dustry echoed his words. Service to Mankind Today, there are 2,400 AM and 680 FM radio stations in America. Daily broadcasts reach 95 per cent of the country. More than 105,000,-00- 0 radio sets have been sold. There are more than 43,000,000 radio equipped homes. It can be claimed, without exaggeration, that in a quarter-centur- y radio has become as much a household utility as the electric light or the telephone. All signs indicate that television will acquire a comparable status in the next decade. The industry, in typical private enterprise fashion, has gambled millions on the perfec-tion of VHF and the development of UHF. It has paved the way for small-tow- n television, and the speed with which the small towns capitalize on this opportunity is in part a local question. Under FCC procedure, television station license applications will be accepted for a fixed period. It is then the responsibility of local peo-ple businessmen, educators, news-paper publishers, bankers, labor and religious leaders to see that local license applications are filed and that the opportunity does not go by default. The government won't build the stations. The broadcast industry op-erates under the old American tradition of free enterprize. 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Buddy Hirsch is working desperately on two told me that he wouldn't bet a quarter on Ponder at long odds. But in spite of early floods and endless January gray days, the trainers are mostly in a jovial mood. Bill Winfrey, head man of AI Vanderbilt' s stable, confesses that most of his thoroughbreds are either sharp or getting sharp. "No complaint so far," Bill says. "We have some that can run." Even the ever-caref- Ben Jones and his son Jimmy admit that Hill Gail is better than they first thought and that he has a pretty fair chance of taking over the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. "Hill Gail is our best bet with A Gleam a definite possibility," Ben says. "Hill Gail wasn't at his best when he ran in the Futurity at Belmont. He had a bad leg, as we discovered later. Windy City II ran a great race to beat Hill Gail and A Gleam in the San Gabriel Stakes but Hill Gail's an improving horse and he may be quite useful before the season is over." Hill Gail will take a shot at both Derbies Santa Anita and Churchill Downs. Hill Gail is another Bull Lea production and Ben Jones is dead sure that the old Bull has many winners left. It was interesting to know that Hialeah's fast getaway means an-other big spring for Florida's ex-tremely fine track. Back to Jim Thorpe In the last half century what athlete did England ever turn out even close to Jim Thorpe? Jim could win an Olympic decathlon and pentathlon. He could run and jump, vault and hurdle. Jim was a football star and a baseball big leaguer. He could have handled the British Empire alone. So why does an English sports writer say U.S. athletes are sissies? Since then a long, long list of double and triple stars in various sports, outside of Jim Thorpe, have appeared on the scene. One of the greatest was Neil Snow of Michigan 1901. Snow was a great defensive end and offensive full-back. He was brilliant at both jobs. Stanford will recall him. Snow was a .420 hitter on Michigan's baseball team. He was offered jobs all over the map. Snow was a star track and field entry shot put, high jump and several other events! He was one of Michigan's greatest stars and still sung there. This country has been packed with athletes who were never special- ists. I'll admit that modern football is developing the specialist with its double-platoo- n system. One big-tim- e coach told me, "I've got two fine ball carriers who can tackle just as well. But they refuse to tackle, or play their share of defense. Grantiar.0 Rkl PSIOie staia and so is dapper Cliff Mooers, who has good stock. But there' are other hot selec-tions as far away as Florida and South Carolina. One of these is a Greentree horse labeled Tom Fool. Another is a well-like- d possibility known as Primate. Primate can be extremely dangerous. And down around Hialeah Jack Amiel, own-er of the Kentucky Derby winner for 1951, is spilling quite a bunch of oratory about another Derby winner (maybe) known as Count Flame. "I told practically everybody In hearing distance last spring that Count Turf would win the Derby," Amiel says. "Almost nobody be-lieved me but Count Turf won just the same. I am now telling every-body around that Count Flame, an-other son of Count Fleet, will win the 1952 Kentucky Derby. Nobody believes me. But Count Flame will either be there or quite close. Any son of Count Fleet is dangerous. He was a great thoroughbred up in the same class with Man 0' War and Citation. Watch Count Fleet horses this year, wherever they run." Cer-tainly John Hertz will give nobody an argument about this statement. At the moment out along the Pacific Coast Hill Gail and Whither Calumet and Vanderbilt have looked better than any of the others. But they haven't tangled up with a Primate or a Tom Fool. Or a Count Flame, as Jack Amiel might add. It would be quite a stunt, at that, to see Mr. Amiel repeat. There's no law against it Cheerful Gang As a rule a trainer is about as optimistic as a football coach. He can only scent disaster. The owner is usually the optimist but rarely the trainer. Amiel's trainer didn't think enough of Count Turf to make the Kentucky trip. Ben Jones has never been a loud cheerer for any of his horses. Before the 1949 Derby he Beware Poor Land Experience has taught the veteran quail hunter, regardless of the lack of thought he may have given the matter, to go along with Louis Bromfield's observation, "Poor land produces poor crops, poor stock, and poor people," uiight well be amended to include "poor game." Given the opportunity he will, al-most instinctively, select as his hunt-ing territory a fertile farm, offering ample food and a diversity of game habitat. We believe it was Dr. R. W. Esch-meye-the noted fish biologist, who jokingly said the way to spot a farm pond that is full of fish is to notice how well the farm-house- s and barns are painted. The better the paint job, the better the fishing. His rea-soning was that if the buildings are well maintained, it is because the farmer is prosperous. If the farmer is prosperous, it is because h'; land is fertile. If the land is fertile, the pond also will be fertile, and the fertile pond will support the most fish. We can't report on how his theory works out in practice, but it sounds logical. Weeds Not Enough It is that e land cannot produce the luxuriant growths and abundant foort supply requisite for carrying a large quan-tity of game through the critical winter and breeding seasons. Poor land, especially if it has been over-grazed, is highly productive oi weeds, but weeds alone are not enough to satisfy fully the needs ol game birds and animals. They are fine for mice, but who wants to gc mouse hunting? Less is the fact that foods grown on neglected worn-ou- t land are deficient in minerals and vitamins that are as important to animals as they are to man. Their degree of importance is indicated by the fact that some animals can detect their' presence, or note their absence, in the food they eat. F01 instance, a hog given free choice will eat from a pile of -- orn raised from good soil in preference to an equally sized pile raised on a poor farm. Of further importance is the possibility that living in poor habi-tat and under general adverse con-ditions alters breeding habits and reduces the reproductive capacity of animals. Leopold suspected this; later observations lend credance to his suspicions. Quite possibly the two phenomena are related. AAA About Predators Predator control may help to pro tect our small game but if we con-centrate our attention on killing the predators we should not overlook the fact that our quail or grouse may be suffering most from lack oi proper food or cover the biologist might say that the habitat is inade-quate. Such measures as bounties, artifi-cial propagation, closed seasons, game sanctuaries have not provided the answers to proper maragement of our game and fish, though they may continue to be useful tools ol the wildlife manager for special situations. Any useful tool for land or wildlife management should not be overlooked, nor should the hunt-ing and trapping of foxes and othei predators by farmers and others te discouraged where overpopulations exist. The problem is a big one and all interested people can do their part. Nearly everyone who enjoys get-ting has the urge to dc something for the wildlife. Some feed songbirds, some attend conser-vation classes or help with projects, others belong to sportsmen's clubs, while many find their biggest thrills in listening to barbership stories. Nevertheless, the interest is there. When we are interested and en-thused we want action and it is hu-man nature to act upon th obvious first. Too often, we tackle the symp-toms rather than the disease, and in our haste, we are too hurmn to realize, or admit, that man himself is often responsible for his own mis fortune on this earth. AAA Spoon Hooks When using a spoon hook as a casting lure it is well one not too large as the air and watei resistance hampers accurate and easy casting, and retrieving is dif-ficult. Spoons size 3 to 5 are general-ly fine for pickerel and northerr pike, or large wall-eye- d pike. The spoon for muskellunge should be or 8. Larger sizes are better adapted for trolling. 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