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...market for television stations in small cities, Thompson Products' Dage Television Division has announced a complete low-power station costing only $50.000, v. $250,000 and up for standard installations. Dage's station was made possible by the Federal Communications Commission's lowering of power and antenna-height requirements in August. The market looks big: FCC has assigned TV channels to 900 communities of less than 50,000 population, but because of high costs, all are still without stations...
...signal and the reply, computes the time delay into miles, and indicates the figure on a dial on the instrument board. The same radio pulses are simultaneously performing a more complicated process. To determine direction, the ground beacon's pulses pass through a revolving (15 revolutions per second) antenna system that relies on two concentric cylindrical rings, one mounted with a single rod-shaped element, the other fitted with nine rods. Whirling around the antenna core, these rods, set at different modulations, "tag" (modulate) the signals as they go out. Every time the inner rod passes "zero" (north...
...Agassiz Station at present has a radio telescope with a 24-foot parabolic antenna, which "serves admirably for a preliminary survey of the Milky Way, but lacks the power needed for detailed research," Bok said...
...Manhattan, antenna-mustached "Nuclear Mystic" Salvador Dali, who is as artless about his publicity as he is about his surrealist painting, made his way back to the front pages by slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort...
...course, is not around at night, but Haddock believes that mariners may eventually be able to steer by the mysterious "radio stars" that shine only in radio frequencies (TIME, June 21). Their waves are much weaker than the sun's, so a bigger antenna will probably be necessary. If navigation equipment can, indeed, be devised to track the radio stars, a ship will never again need be lost in a stormy night...