New U.S. Alaska Cable
Reaches Halfway Mark
The cableship Albert J. Meyer
reached the halfway mark in lay
ing the first undersea telephone
eable system between the United
States ar.d Alaska. The twin cable
system, a $15 million undertaking
®f the Long Lines Department of
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company, is scheduled to
he placed in service later this
year.
The Meyer, a 7,800 ‘ ton vessel,
completed the laying of the first
of the two cables which stretch
across some 750 miles of ocean
bottom between Port Angeles,
Washington and Ketchikan. At
Ketchikan, the A. T. & T. cable
system will be connected with a
cable recently placed between
Ketchikan and Skagway by the
Alaska Communications System, a
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division of the Army Signal Corps
that provides long distance tele
phone service for Alaska
The core of the cable is a single
central conductor of copper, in
sulated with waterproof material
(polyethlene) and surrounded
with copper tapes which act as a
return conductor. The core is pro
tected with layers of jute and steel
armor wire. Overall diameter of
the deep-sea cable is about 1L4
inches. It weighs about one pound
per foot. Shallow water cable has
heavier armor to protect it from
marine life, ice and fishing trawl
ers. It is more than 2V4 inches in
diameter and weighs almost nine
pounds per foot.
The Port Angeles - Ketchikan
cables will contain 39 amplifiers,
called “repeaters.” These repeat
ers, designed to operate without
attention for at least 20 years on
on the • ocean floor, are spaced
about every 40 miles alofi? the
route. Each repeater amplifies the
voice signals a million times, and
appears as a long tapering bulge
in the cable itself.
The second cable of the twin
cable system will parallel the
route of the first and will be
placed by the Meyer next month.
The cable system will provide 36
voice circuits—more than twice
as many as are now available be
tween the United States and Alas
ka over radio and landline iac'li
ties. The new cable system will
provide speedier and more reli
able telephone communications be
tween Alaska and the United
States.
The system may be used for ra
dio broadcast service but will not
be used for television. Although
the cable will offer a wider band
width than any yet developed for
long-haul underwater transmis
sion, its bandwidth is short of that
required for television.
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ozs., was born on July 4 to Glenda
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and Lawrence Wilkie Newman,
LCDR., USN. Billie Jo is the New
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