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September 1966 Radio-Electronics

September 1966 Radio-Electronics

September 1966 Radio-Electronics Cover - RF Cafe[Table of Contents]

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Electronics, published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.

The September 1966 issue of Radio-Electronics magazine had a plethora of good News Briefs, including an item where editor Hugo Gernsback is presented with yet another honor - this time from the International Press Group. It's like today with Dr. Ulrich Rohde (N1UL), who, deservingly, seems to be receiving new commendations and awards on a regular basis. To some extent, I think the organizations exploit the fame and accomplishments of the recipient to get themselves into the headlines. In the "Famously Wrong Technology Predictions" department, COMSAT's president, Dr. Joseph Charyk, declared that direct satellite-to-home television broadcasting was not a likely possibility. Sylvania's General Telephone & Electronics Corp. demonstrated a laser-based missile tracking system which could locate "lost" rockets up to eight miles away in cloud cover within seconds, then lock on and track them. Read on...

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News Briefs, September 1966 Radio-Electronics - RF CafeHugo Gernsback Honored by International Press Group - RF CafeHugo Gernsback - RF CafeHugo Gernsback Honored by International Press Group

The International Union of the Radiotechnical and Electronics Press (L'Union internationale de la Presse radiotechnique et electronique) has elected Hugo Gernsback a Member of Honor of the association, "in recognition of his outstanding services in the fields of radiotechnical and electronic journalism.

Mr. Gernsback was notified of the honor in a letter by Eugene Aisberg, president of the Union, old-time friend, and publisher of five magazines in the field of electronics in France:

"Dear Friend Gernsback:

I am very happy to address you this witness of affection and admiration from your confreres of the world electronic press."

The Union is composed of editors of publications in the electronics field and includes leading publishers and editors in a large number of countries and languages.

Electrically scanned laser system - RF Cafe

Sylvania engineer Robert Johnson inspects beam reflector (left tube), tracking telescope (center tube) and receiver unit (right tube) of the electrically scanned laser system.

New Laser "Radar" Has Electric Scanning

An electrically scanned laser is the first that can relocate a rocket momentarily lost in the clouds; mechanically scanned lasers cannot move fast enough to rediscover a moving target once it is lost. The new laser, by General Telephone & Electronics Corp., can pinpoint a rapidly moving target to within 12 inches at a height of 8 miles. The optical-beam deflector consists of 20 movable and 8 stationary mirrors. The 20 movable mirrors are attached to piezoelectric prisms activated by alternating current and direct the beam to 2,000 locations within a half-second after contact with the target is lost. As soon as the beam strikes the target and is again reflected, the ground receiver shuts off the deflector and locks the system onto the moving target.

TV Direct from Satellites Not Likely, Says Comsat Head

Dr. Joseph V. Charyk, president of the Communications Satellite Corp., does not believe that television broadcasts are likely to be relayed direct to homes from satellites. Instead, he thinks broadcasts will go from space to ground stations and then be distributed by existing television networks.

Direct satellite transmission would create a propaganda broadcast problem, and many governments might object to their citizens receiving material the satellites might broadcast. There would also be a serious economic problem, as existing television networks would probably object to any type of broadcast that would bypass them and possibly terminate the reason for their existence.

Phone Call Direct-Dialed from U.S. to Switzerland

Just 90 years after Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, a direct-dial telephone call was made between Philadelphia and the continent of Europe. Lowell Wingert, vice president of the Long Lines Department of AT&T, made the call at a session of the International Communications Conference. He dialed 200-2-33-10-11. The 200 is the international "area code." The 2 routed the call to Switzerland, and the other six digits are the telephone number of Jean Rouviere of the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, Geneva. Mr. Wingert told the meeting that direct customer dialing between selected central offices in New York City and several European cities would be introduced on an experimental basis next year.

General Sarnoff Proposes an International Patent System

A global patent system, using satellite communications and electronic data processing, would be an important step in spreading technology more equitably around the world, General Sarnoff stated to the Patent, Trademark & Copyright Research Institute of George Washington University.

"The fragmented array of national patent systems," said the RCA chairman, "inhibits the swift and equitable worldwide distribution of patent benefits. When we can transmit an idea around the world in less than if, second, why must years elapse before that idea can be validated within or outside the country of origin?

"The instruments for such a system include the coming worldwide array of high-capacity satellites and the emerging generation of high-speed electronic data processing and information storage systems."

New Undersea Cable System First to Use Transistors

Bell Telephone Laboratories' new undersea telephone cable system can carry nearly six times as many two-way conversations as any present US undersea cable. The new SF system, as it is called, provides for 720 two-way channels, compared to 128 two-way circuits in the previous SD system.

Transistor amplifiers, used for the first time, help broaden the bandwidth and therefore increase the number of voice channels. The transistors are expected to have an even longer life than the estimated 25 years of tubes previously used in such amplifiers. The amplifiers will be spaced 10 nautical miles apart, and each will provide a gain of about 40 dB.

The first cable used in the new system is expected to be a 1,250-mile stretch between Jacksonville, Fla., and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

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