Broadcasting in American Hotels

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 5, 14 August 1931, Page 2

Broadcasting in American Hotels

ot A Difficult Problem _ TPHAT much-harassed body, the U.S. Federal Radio Commission, has: a new problem to solve, viz., whether the proposed adoption of for distributing radio programmes through the larger hotels will mean the establishment of miniature short-wave broadcasting systems which require licenses. The problem was presented to the Commission in a letter from Montague Lyon, junior, of St. Louis, a patent attorney. An unnamed client, he stated, has invented the system, patents for which are pending. My. Lyon explains that programmes would be picked up on a standard re-. ceiving set and rebroadcast on a lowpowered transmitter, of perhaps 10 watts. power, which would be worked into a "dummy aerial system" com-. posed of the electric light wiring on a ground. He said this would prevent radiation to receivers other than those . in the hotel or building, and that there-' fore the system was not radio but wire.