
Inauguration of Two-Way Radio in Queens
Mayor O' Dwyer inaugurates the use of two-way police radio in Queens.
Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection
WNYC archives id: 150421
Municipal archives id: LT5595
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And that's why you've got to have ended communication when you need to concentrate law group of cards a man part of a single place you have the speed is possible method of communication with which to get the word to them and give them the audience. But. Now that we have finally made the decision that they need to way radio. Set up should be on a bill to Tillman to current We know exactly where we go and. You'll understand gentleman led government that one of the large items of expense in the expense budget. And one that is medically lot as the additional manpower that we got on the plate Department during the past year we've been able with a help of the similar commission who operated the hot side of chemical Violenta with benevolent get the blood thirty five hundred no men on we started back in January nineteen point six but we have played about fourteen thousand men for the whole Senate and that we were facing the. Conditions that were bound to arise when the men came back from the armed services from the rock and we know what the history of the lap while was we know exactly what kind of a crime wave we ran into and. It just meant that you couldn't do the job with fourteen thousand men what you had after the First World War I was married to eighteen thousand five hundred men and then you had a terrific crime wave as you well remember. This time when we. Were not up to eighteen thousand five hundred men but we're up beyond seventeen thousand already. And even with that ladies and gentlemen that's a terrific job to police the city. Up five boroughs the size of ours when you consider the mileage of the borough president Barak said that had to be police here in Queens alone why wouldn't I give a promise out all that they demand part of the police to pop in would be less than eighteen thousand five hundred because if we could get along with the left. We'd have that much more money for other very needed services but we must have the laws and possibly must help the the city well policed if you don't have that if you have not been. On objection to the manpower. There is this new device that was developed during the largest to wait radios set up I might tell you that in the early days when they try to use it they found blank spots all over the city had in the parents from one kind of the instructed to a not during a rather developed a settlement is that a point that developing now that we can use it and plowed through anything with a method that of course when we have the whole study lined up with each company set up with enough cost rather than Acadian to a central point and some outlying section of the county right on to get to a telephone something went wrong because. If you communicate it's a simple way to get the word through get it back get help and additional that a good thing for the police themselves to help the earliest possible moment of product the expense of this. I think that's going to be added to our already overburdened. But it's something that is necessary because it is a crisis and every man on the bottom of them. Has gone on record over and over again that the city's got to be wowed police and the. Absolute confidence and learned that. It's impossible to build a job unless you have run man thought and then the advantage of every mechanical contrivance that can improve the service of the mass that's the one way that you can get it I'm very happy that we have been able to at this point get to fifty cars here in Queens and I'm glad to announce. That we'll have twenty eight mall within the next few weeks and that ought to be a great help here in Queens the time being. The next Mobile Bay to the other but. I'm very grateful to you for coming here to take part in this beginning and I do hope that you'll find the great service that we think it will be thank you very much. Thanks for the murder of the city of New York from the one hundred one third precinct one hundred sixty eighth Street. America just press the button that put station W J I J In service on a frequency of thirty nine point nine hundred killer cycles say thirty nine thousand nine hundred kilo cycled two hundred fifty watt each to cover the hundred eighteen miles. Barrel's clean the camera men are having a few winnings it's necessary we have a historic pictures and in a few moments we'll test out and you will hear the actual test in the checking with the cars as they are called here direct from the precinct or they call the precinct whichever the situation may be two way communication is already installed and the Cardinals America said suddenly eight cars will soon be set and I don't suspect a barn at that time ladies and gentlemen we're going to conduct the test as the two way radio system so that you will get back to the states and we'll call a cop and the police and then the bar. Take about two minutes to do that have kept me. Acting Captain Michael J. McDonald's I'm going to conduct the technicians of the. Telegraph Europe. Station W J I J The police department the city of New York testing on its assigned frequently thirty nine thousand nine hundred kilo psychologist clients out of the Federal Communications Commission at stake in W J I J testing and calling card number five five seven. OK car number five five car number four line braincase. OK top one ninth grade Kanavis doesn't want. The verdict. OK I thought seven one car number five for that cage. OK top five was the con of the spider seven eight. OK car number five seven on the floor eight seven eight the power. OK top floor eight doesn't that's not on five a three. OK Top seven five a car number four five a day. Ok cost X. Box Live card a poor eight nine. OK car number bore eight nights on a private ones to hate. Oh. Also. One. Zero. One. Zero. Zero zero. Zero. Zero zero. Zero zero. Zero. Zero zero zero zero seven. Zero one. Anything that's not the. Number one. Thing. But. Thank you Jack I concluding that. Your only. The problem of calling. One of the. Already. Telegraphed they're all located on the second floor at this time I'm rather. Frightened by the law on the. Back to not telegraph and I already own it that's just. Like to make. It Go third inspector Francis J. Byrne of the telegraph bureau and bite the commission while under police commissioner of the city of New York and the mayor of the city of New York the Honorable William O'Dwyer twenty like the actual installation in the Telegraph bureau section of one hundred third precinct at one hundred sixty eighth Street in the bar of the Queen of the bar of Queens NY we are required to recapitulate the Premier today for the benefit of those who may have found a light and may wonder what this broadcast is it is the installation of stations at W J I J on a frequency of thirty nine thousand nine hundred kilo cycles or two hundred fifty watt a translation covering an area of one hundred eighteen mildly complete to two hundred and eighteen twelve miles of the upper of Queen Anne of her I beg your pardon as borough president first brought out if we take the mileage of the three other barrels when they comprised half the mileage of all the streets of the splitting of New York in the far right contract. A very interesting factor of with the broadcast the diary was the complete correct of all cars that were called direct problem with their theory on the other the third pretty thing checking in at the call of acting Captain Michael Dimock not I'll telegraph the old man after the installation was made by the bell of the telegraph bureau and maybe thirty miles of the radio with delays to fill the entire history of radio out of the applications the police actually had one of the all five of the police to far from the radio by this ad war able to take off over us with a minimum of time for the three of the art in a gravel thing that wonderful are not only crime to.