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...knows that ordinary Amplitude Modulation (AM) radio was a vast improvement over the early crystal and cat's whisker variety. Not so many know that Frequency Modulation (FM) radio is almost as big an improvement over AM. Comparatively few, in fact, have actually enjoyed FM's nearly staticless, high-fidelity charms. A new gadget, marketed last week, may change all that-even though the radio revolution which would make FM broadcasting commercially sound may still be a long...
...Federal Communications Commission decided that FM's postwar transmission band should be hiked from its present 42-to-50 megacycles up to 88-to-106. This change. FCC said, meant that FM would have ample space to expand and less interference, which should make its high fidelity and staticless reception even better...
...most people, FM-"staticless radio" -is still a mysterious what-is-it. In Washington last week, it was a red-hot issue: should FM be dispossessed and its airways address be changed from its present quarters at 42-to-50 megacycles to another place way up at 84-to-102 megacycles...
...Lucius Beebe "bolting" from the Blue for the 5:31 train to his Rosemont (NJ.) "Paul Whiteman Walking Horse Farm." There, noted Beebe, Whiteman keeps 150 pipes, 100 suits, 75 pairs of "costly, hand-tooled" town shoes, 24 pairs of riding boots, 15 saddles (one silver-mounted), one dozen staticless radios, enough phonograph records to make the planning of a disk-house no idle talk...
Last May FCC decided that Frequency Modulation was sufficiently advanced to warrant its undertaking commercial operation. Freed from the confines of experiment, staticless FM began to loom formidably on radio's horizon. But while some operators were struggling to transform their experimental stations into high-powered outfits for commercial use, the national-defense program suddenly slowed down delivery of equipment. Last week FCC did right by FM once again, announced that it would permit experimental FM units to operate commercially (provided they had received commercial construction permits) until big-league transmitters are delivered...
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