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Things That Folks Talk AboutThat Give-Away' GameBy FREDERICK C. OTHMANWASHINGTON — Let us bowji liked. So our man downtown■ low today and doff our hats to the would look at his chart, touch an-1,■ Federal Corn m unicat ions Com-’other switch, and tune my radio1i mission. It has saved us from a over to the olher station. After thelll I 11 fate a good deal worse than death;-news was over. He’d switch me • namely, the radio set at home that back to station WJW. Even we': ' turns itself on at the whim of the [were amazed.” j]{' fellow downtown at the broad-, The Messrs. Reed and Roberts!casting station. You have nothing figured that on a production line, i 1 to do with it. they could build small radios their i’1 Honest Injun The thing is here, owners couldn’t control for S26 , 5 scientific and also practical, each. ■ '.Whenever the broadcasting com- , I!pany uants vou Ip l.slen.'it can They alsn applied lor a patent, sxvilch no your set by remote eon- but. .off’ce ater.trol subsonic wave, and there youi | a 2 #1- *■# kare. trapped. L,fe hardly .vppld bcc/usf n ,lhe eoils, switches,be worth living. Or. as Jack R. anlt;l. T«'s »■*« *« inI Reed, one of 1he co-producers or ,enled b sl,raebci' e!se' {,■this marvelous little horror, said: The FCC. which had given them :* ‘'The danger of an automatic authority to try the widget exper-1 world is having to do what the imentalfy, was not impressed by : z machinery dictates.” the fact that it worked. Inventor1 The only thing that saved us was Roberts now as chief engineer of' the FCC: it showed a noticeable WJW- Like R^d he has other , lack oC enthusiasm for this dec- things to do than pester the gov-tronic invasion of our Jives Even ernment with demands for a ra-’ y Reed seem? not too disappointed, the set that turns on at somebodyelse’s pleasure The idea has beenAt the moment he is president pigeonholed. That’s good, s of ’Washington Reporters. Inc.. I don’t know when a piece oft an organization that sells news .news has given me such cheer.to radio broadcasters. During , fCopmuhi is»si the war, however, he was an executive of radio Station WJW in / Akron, Ohio. One of the rngi-, neers there was Gerald Roberts.r‘•And we got to thinking about e the beM kind of air-raid warning signals,” Reed said. ‘'Roberts figs' is red that sirens were no? so hot. ! if he could produce a radio set s that would turn itself on when the ~ emergency developed. He said he .belieicd he could build such a 'device, if l‘d find him fhe right kind of sensitive filter coil. I got it. It cost STOPHow It Came About., ‘‘SO WE picked up an automobile radio and put it in my housewith the coil attached. The radio circuit of the machine kept r running all the time, but the audiocircuit was shut off.1 “So all the engineer at the sta-1 turn had to do was send along an s impulse with the regular broad-;casts. It couldn't be heard; it was' ' so weak that it hardly could be* detected by the best instruments.• “But it was strong enough totrip » switch in my set; a switch so delicate the wires were no thick-. ‘ er than hairs. But it worked. He'd touch a button downtown and my; ^; rad to in the suburbs would begin: to play.“We even went a little further. For six months the engineer in charge in {he morning would turn my set on every morning at sev-ie en. This automatically would start] I the coffee lo boiling. For a while! (there f also had it toast my bread,j 'but this did seem a little compli-i t catedl» At »:3d *. hi. Jhere was a news' (broadcast on a rival station that,sk
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Mansfield News Journal
Mansfield, Ohio, US
Sat, Nov 17, 1951
Page 4
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