“Communications”
Theme Of Speech
An insight into Communications,
its history, functions and prob
lems was given members of the
Rotary Club Tuesday by Cdr. Bob
Petty, who gave the address at the
weekly luncheon. Cdr Petty is
Commanding Officer of the Navy
Communications Station on the
Naval Station.
The speaker said the history of
communications goes back as far
as the history of the country itself.
In the war with the British during
the Revolutionary dayg. a means
had to be found to communicate
between ships. The first means
was by voice, flags and sema
phones. With the advent of the in
cadescent lamp, it was possible to
communicate a distance of 17
miles. t
Marconi was engaged by the
Navy to develop a system of com
munication. His contribution prov
ed quite successful. The use of ra
dio proved so successful that the
Rad jo Service was formed-in 1912.
A Naval high power transmitter
was built. By the use of this medi
um, it was possible, by 1949, to
communicate 3000 to 3500 miles
at sea, by radio and teletype cir
cuits.
Petty then described one of the
newer Navy installations, a huge
transmitter located at Arlington,
Washington, which he said is the
largest in the United States, and
possibly in the world. It has an
output of one million, two hund
red thousand watts. There are
twelve 200 foot to vers, and miles
of wire strung 3000 feet above the
valley floor, between mountain
tops.
Petty stated the Communications
field is having trouble keeping up
with the jet and missiles. Because
of their speed, messages must be
transmitted promptly and speedily.
He listed the three requireme nts
necessary in getting a message
through—reliability, security and
speed. "“Reliability is the most im
portant of the three,” Petty said.
The speaker then went on to de
scribe the work of his department
on the Naval Station here. It is as
suming. a growing importance here,
he said, and Kodiak could be the
focal point for communications. He
described the new communications
station at Buskin Lake, the receiv
ing station adjacent thereto. The
new receiver station being bulit at
Holiday Beach, he said, will allevi
ate the congestion in the latter.
Petty concluded his remarks
with some aspects and problems of
communications in Kodiak. “Our
antennas are not all that is to be
desired," he said. Getting the mes
sage through can be complicated
by the hills adjacent to Kodiak.
The Aurora Borealis, beautiful as
it is to look at, he said, creates
problems, due to its atmospheric
distburances. Distances are some
times easier to get to than near at
hand. He gave as an instance an
occasion when it was necessary to
transmit 5000 miles to get a mes
sage through to a point fifteen
miles away.
Prior to Cdr. Petty's speech,
Maurice Briggs, Chairman of the
Student Youth Committee, spoke
on the subject of “Youth.”
Events scheduled by the Club
are a USO Pal Day program, and
dinner for the teachers of the Ko
diak schools and the wives of Ro
tary members.
Among those present at the
meeting were Jay Wolf, a former
member, Kirk Bradford, Gordon
Ryberg and Jacques M. Norvell.
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