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Similar word came from George was defeated.I near accord on wa°e issuesiKing’s effects.Gigantic New Type Radio Station Is To Be Located In Bluefieldbyfn ! wi arA new type of radio station that will blanket the eastern seaboard will be on the air from Bluefield within a few days.Designated as WHIS-PM. the new station employs the world’s newest broadcasting idea, frequency modulation, which, in terms of the listener, means that there is no static.On the new FM radio sets, 'VHIS -FM will be found on the dial at 104.5 megacycles or on PM channel 283, the operating frequency.Bluefield’s station will have an ultimate operating p n w lt;r of 185.000 watts of radiated power. The largest AM statiop in the nation today employs only 50,000 watts.To bt operated by Radio Sta-ition WHIS, the new PM station here will be constructed at a cost of $150,000.Scheduled programs of broadcasting are to begin the first of next week, the exact time to be announced later.In the meantime, tests of equipment and reception are being conducted intermittently.Here to conduct the tests are engineers from the Federal Telephone and Radio corporation of Newark, N. J . which supplied the equipment for the new transmitter.Reaular programs of AM broadcasting will be continued at station WHIS, the new PM station to interfere in no way with the oldstation, Pat Flanagan, manager ofWHIS and supervisor of construction of the PM station, said last night.The tests are being conducted under 3,000-watt power, but Flanagan said the ultimate 186.000 watts will be reached by the first of the year, when the permanent transmitter is expected to be completed.!The 186.000-watt grant is the largest made by the federal com- jmunioations commission east of; the Mississippi to date. It was granted by the FCC in December of last year to the Daily Telegraph Printing company.The new PM transmitter is lo icated on the top of East River mountain, east of South Gate, at an altitude of 3,700 The per-i manent antennae will be 1,072feet above the average surrounding terrain.Construction started on March 22 of this year and since that time, 1,700 feet of roadway have been built, joining the transmitter sitewith U. S. highway routes 21 and 52.Construction of a transmitter building. 36 by 46 feet and three stories high, is nearing completion on the site. The first, floor is for transmitting equipment, which already has been installed The second flood will be the living quarters for the engineer in charge of the new station. The building is of native stone and frame construction.A temporary antennae has been constructed on the side of a 56-ofatilrewcrempiarriiil0:I th jmi ac TccIh;Six—ColSifc di
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield, West Virginia, US
Sat, Jul 12, 1947
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