A STATION SUED

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 41, 27 April 1928, Page 5

A STATION SUED

CAUSES INTERFERENCE, The Italian Educational Broadeasting Company, operating station WCDA (New York), brought suit for 100,000 dollars: (£20,000) against WOR (New Jersey, New York state), in the Federal court recently. According to Earl W. Dannals, managing director of WCDA, the suit is based on interference caused to his station by WOR, which ig owned and operated by L. Bamberger & Co. WOR operates on a frequency of 710 kilocyeles, while WCDA works on 1,420 kilocycles, ‘Mr. Dgnnals said that the interference was caused by WOR’s second harmonic, which has a frequency of 1,420 kilocycles, and was due to negligence on the part of the engineers in charge of the Bamberger transmitter who have failed to suppress its energy. WCDA went on the air last November. Shortly after it commenced operations it received complaints that there was a heterodyne in its channel. Mr. Dannals said engineers connected with his station traced the howl to WOR’s second harmonic. He saidthe Bamberger Station was then asked to co-operate in eliminating the interference, but failed to do so. A complaint was then filed with the Federal Radio Commission, he declared, which ordered WOR to correct its harmonics. C. T. Gannon, assistant director of: WOR, admitted that notice had been served upon his company. He said that so far-as he knew the suit came as a surprise and that he had no knowledge of the Federal Radio: Commission’s ever having taken any action in the matter. Q