| Show New UHF Station Beams Closed Circuit Program The University of Utah has received program test authority from the FCC to operate low-power UHF transmission for campus distribution of educational A. RAY said Tuesday the University has received special authorization to operate channels 71 and 74 with transmitters to determine whether or not standard quality transmission is possible with such Chief Engineer H. W. closed circuit supervisor Dail and Engineer Wayne have recently completed exhaustive tests which indicate that low-power transmission using existing TV equipment is THE PROGRAM TESTS began Monday on Channel which was recently installed in Orson Spencer Special receivers are necessary to pick up the C. Richard Evans and Elmo R. Morgan conceived the project as a possibility in answering long-range University The State Building Board has been of great assistance in carrying out the program thus Keith M. director of University radio-TV stated that low-power broadcast TV eliminates need for expensive cable installations between the many buildings on the University THE FUTURE growth of the campus will not affect distribution of closed-circuit television instruction inasmuch as the low-power units have an effective radius of over eight Engar He also noted that the University will conduct experimental work on the installations through a research grant from the U.S. Office of engineers Holtshouser and Ogden had to re-design existing equipment to successfully complete the installation of Channel In many communities throughout the Channels have been used for translators in bringing metropolitan television stations to rural but the FCC has not required extensive proof of tests on such University officials point out that operating at such frequencies and at low interference with other services is minimized and costly equipment is not |
