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Show GOVERNMENT PLANS RADIO BEACON FOR MILFORD IN JULY 1933 Aerial Broadcasting Station Now Under Construction Will Be Augmented By Visual Beacon Plant for Guiding Air-crafts Air-crafts on Route Thru Here Supplementing the present aerial broadcasting station now under construction con-struction by the U. S. government in Milford, a beacon radio plant will be installed in 1933 according to Don F. Sutton, radio electrician of the Building Build-ing and Maintenance Department of Commerce, who is in charge of the work at this place. The plant now being installed is for tl(e purpose of transmitting aerial weather reports to planes traveling between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. An-geles. The additional station contemplated con-templated for 1933 is a radio beacon plant for guiding planes on the route between these two cities. It is known as the visual beacon type differentiating differentiat-ing from the plants now in general use which are classed as oral stations, inasmuch as the planes are guided by a light on the instrument board, transmitted by the beacon station instead in-stead of a sound sent out by the dot and dash system. Only one visual station is now in operation in the United States, being located in Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Fifteen acres of land was purchased purchas-ed by the government from Chas. Beard near Milford for the erection of the broadcasting station. The acreage being larger than necessary for the plant now under construction, but was secured by the government in contemplation of the beacon station sta-tion to be erected later. The aerial beacon station will require additional addition-al buildings and equipment, as well additional help for operation and maintenance. Work was started this week on laying lay-ing the underground wires for the plant, and considerable excavating is being done by local help. Bids for laying the concrete for the building were opened yesterday and the contract con-tract will be let at once. |