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Las Vegas Age
Las Vegas, Clark County, Lincoln County, Nevada
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The U.S. Department of Commerce opens the first Pacific Coast radio telephony station at Oakland airport to broadcast hourly weather reports to planes in flight, part of a network along transcontinental airways. Mail and passenger planes to be radio-equipped soon.
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Weather Reports Now Phoned to Planes
The United States Department of Commerce is in readiness to operate the first radio telephony station on the Pacific Coast. This station will report hourly, by phone, the weather conditions to planes in flight. A new Chevrolet Six, with N. W. Bliss, the manager of the station, and Lt. Franklin Rose, is shown in the foreground.
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The first scheduled communication by radio-telephony with aircraft in flight will begin next week when the Department of Commerce plant at the Oakland airport goes into operation. Completed at a cost of $30,000 this United States Department of Commerce station is ready for short wave radio-telephony broadcasting of hourly weather reports, giving radio-equipped planes weather information and informing them of landing conditions at important airports along civil airways.
The Oakland radio station is the first of a series of radio telephony broadcasting stations to be established along the transcontinental airway. Others will be at Los Angeles, Fresno, Medford, Portland and Seattle on the coast. For the transcontinental airway east the first station will be constructed at Reno, Elko, Nevada, and Salt Lake City.
Twenty-four hours weather reporting service, seven days a week, is planned over this system. Teletype machines will be connected all over the system. Weather reports gathered by government weather bureaus will be received at the broadcasting stations on these machines and telephoned by radio to planes in flight Department of Commerce radio stations will operate in connection with airport weather bureaus: both systems government controlled after July first. These plans here were first established by the Guggenheim Foundation.
Mail planes on both the coastal and transcontinental airways will be radio equipped within 9 days, and all air transport companies are planning to radio-equip the passenger carrying planes.
For the past few weeks a radio-equipped Chevrolet coach has been traveling the adjacent roads to this new station testing the equipment to be used.
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Oakland Airport
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Next Week
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completed at a cost of $30,000. mail planes to be radio equipped within 9 days. passenger planes planned to be radio-equipped.
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The United States Department of Commerce station at Oakland airport will begin operations next week, providing hourly weather reports by radio-telephony to planes in flight. It is the first in a series along transcontinental airways, with 24-hour service planned using teletype machines and connections to weather bureaus, government controlled after July first. Plans established by Guggenheim Foundation. Testing done with radio-equipped Chevrolet coach.