TELEVISION IN RUSSIA
AMATEURS BUILD HOME RECEIVERS Television has been developed irapidly in Russia lately, and many amateurs who have managed to construct their own television receivers have been able to pick up daily television transmissions. Aside from all the experimental stations existing already, the construction of an independent television station has been decided in Moscow. Two ultra-short-wave transmitters of a power of 7.5 kw are to be installed in such a way as to be able, to be transferred into 20kw transmitters. They will transmit pictures in . 160,000 elements bn the 343-line system. The transmissions will be carried over on a wavelength of six metres, and one transmitter will operate on pictures and the" other one on .sound. As for the aerials, they will attain 150 metres in height, so that it will be .comparatively easy to pick up a broadcast within a range of about SOklm to r6oklm; The studios, which will coVer an area of 320 square metres, are to be installed in another building. It is hoped that the whole construction will be achieved towards the autumn of this year.
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Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 4
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184TELEVISION IN RUSSIA Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 4
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