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Show Broadcasting on Higher Powers to Check Static Disclaiming any responsibility tor more than a fraction of "m-io-made static" in radio receiving sets engineers engi-neers of the National Electric Light association suggest broadcasting on higher powers and the development of less sensitive but more highly selective selec-tive sets as the means for eliminating this type of Interference. As a result of complaints that local electric supply facilities have caused many of the extraneous radio noises heard In radio sets, the companies that generate and distribute electric current several years ago set their research re-search engineers to work on the problem. prob-lem. Their findings, recently announced, an-nounced, are to the effect that perhaps 10 to 20 per cent of the sources of trouble may be traced to electric light and power generation near by. Higher transmitting power, so that the signal strength will permit a program pro-gram to "ride out" all such Interferences, Interfer-ences, Is one way to solve the problem, prob-lem, says the report Then there are possibilities In the development of sets less sensitive to regeneration, It continues, adding that this Is one of the problems that only the Industry Itself It-self can solve. |