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('LIGHT of utilities radio continues to worsen. Requests
continue to pour in for additional frequency
.allocations. Co- channel arrangements have been the
only answer to requests in the 30 -50 MC and 152 -160
bands. Consideration is now being given to a Split
Channel proposal, but the FCC has warned that even
if a solution is found to problems of engineering,
frequency coordination and operation there is no
assurance that the new channels made available by
Split Channel operation will be allocated to the service
to which the original channel was allocated.
ENGINEERING SHORTAGE can be minimized, says
Brig. General David Sarnoff, by instituting a three
point program: 1. That atomic reactors be constructed
on selected college campuses. 2. That the
nation's youth be polled to determine why so few
take up scientific careers. 3. That industry and Gov -
ernment eooperate in establishing a "National Educational
Reserve" made up of teachers drawn from
industry.
COLOR TELEVISION
THIS MONTH will be crucial for color TV. With
the programming problem solved, at least to a large
extent, by WNBQ's all -color operation in Chicago
the one remaining obstacle -receiver price -gets industry
attention. RCA is expected to announce a
sharp reduction, possibly to $495.00, but a better
guess would be $595.00. The marketing technique
that was so successful in introducing B & W -first
getting the sets into local taverns and other public
places -will be pushed in the next few months for
color.
At the same time GE announces that they will be
marketing a color TV receiver in the last half of
this year. Though technical details are being withheld
it is certain the receiver will use a 3 -gun aperture
mask tube with a chassis designed by GE.
MILITARY CONTRACTS
ALL MANUFACTURERS qualified to engage in defense
production are being urged to get their names
in the Register of Plan Mobilization Producers,
-which is compiled by the Government as part of
-their emergency industrial mobilization plans. Firms
.are listed in the register by the military offices having
mobilization planning responsibility for the
items which these firms could produce in an emergency.
Full details are contained in two booklets
entitled, "Purchased Items and Purchasing Locations
of the Department of Defense," and, "How to
Sell to the Department of Defense," both available
from the Central Military Procurement Information
Office, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C. The Government
is most anxious that all firms bring to their
attention their ability to produce certain products.
MATERIALS
ULTRA -THIN copper strip in thicknesses of .00025
in. will permit the design of greatly miniatureized
transformers and other electronic components by
the substitution of tape -wound wafer -type coils for
the coils formerly made from magnet wire. The
Air Force under -wrote the development of the new
process. Small dimensions of the new copper strip
is illustrated by the fact that 1 lb. of material will
make 1,000 r -f television receiver coils. Use of wafer -
coil also facilitates automatic production of components.
JET TRACKER
New electronic equivalent of the manually operated plotting board
was designed by American Mach. b Fdry. Co. to handle high speed
aircraft. Basically a PPI for trace -while -scan surveillance radar,
unit shows aircraft as a coded symbol, and includes a velocity vector,
a 3 -digit identifying number and added pertinent data.
Tele -Tech & ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES June 1956
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