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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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rs located throughout the state J 1947^48 Arms of the Law 211 owned systems. For instance— —the customer can be relieved of secur-ing and maintaining sites for land sta-tions and, in the case of remote locations,of providing access roads, power lines,and connecting telephone; —all work required to be done by li-censed first- or second-class radio tele-phone operators is cared for by the tele-phone company, leaving the actual hand-ling of traffic to the customer; —the telephone company, w^ith a wide-spread organization of trained personnel,can provide a high grade of maintenanceas well as furnish advice and assistanceto the customer for making the mosteffective use of the facilities; and, lastbut not least, —the telephone company, with its engi-neering and research personnel and fa-cilities, is in a good position to keep theequipment up to date. I The 2^0-watt transmitter-receiver on the top of Dauphin Mountain which serves the Pennsylvania State Police in the Harrisburg area
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212 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER Pennsylvania sRadio Network A LARGE private mobile radio sys-tem, such as the system recently in-stalled by the Bell Telephone Com-pany of Pennsylvania for the Penn-sylvania State Police, presents manyproblems. This famous police organization,directed by Col. C. M. Wilhelm, has strategically located poles or in policebarracks. Combined with the radiotelephonesystem is the State Police teletype-writer network, which had its begin-ning in 1930. Considerably expandedsince then, this network now servesas a link between state police radiodispatchers located in the troopareas, in addition to its major func-tion of handling thousands of mes- its headquarters at Harrisburg and sages a day between some 60 stateis divided into four squadrons. Each police locations and transmitting bul-of these squadrons is responsible for letins to more than 60 municipal or police activities within a certam geo-graphical area. The squadrons, inturn, are subdivided into troops,

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