RADIO PICTURES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 5

RADIO PICTURES

BROADCASTING COMMENCES. Radio station WOR at Kearny, New Jersey, U.S.A., is preparing to broadcast pictures to radio set Owners soor after the first of the year, John Poppele, its chief engineer, said in New York early last mouth. "We have been approached by representatives of Austin G. Cooley, inventor of the radio-picture transmitter and receiving equipment, for the use of our station for deyelopment work," said Mr. Poppele. ‘‘We have consented to be of what service we can because we are intensely interested in the progress of television and photo-radio. ‘The pictures will be radiated in the mornings up to 11 o’clock, so that the experiments will not conflict with WOR’s regular programmes. We have both a 5-kilowatt and a 500-watt transmitter, and we may use the latter because it sends a good signal strength throughout the metropolitan area. The pictures will be sent on WOR’s wave of 423 metres or 710 kilocycles. TESTS IN PROGRESS. "Tt will be no trick to connect the picture devices with the regular broadcast transmitter. Mr. Cooley has also deyeloped a receiver. We hope to begin the tests shortly after the first of January."