Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 01, 1963, Image 15

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Newspaper Page Text4 6 SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON World Becoming Plagued by Invisible Imps Doing No Good MEDFORD MAIL TRrBUNE. MEDFORD, OREftON By JOSEPH L. MYLER I RFI has been accused of ruin- WASHINGTON (UPI) The ing rocket launches, of spoiling world is becoming increasingly space experiments, and of mak- piaguea by invisible imps up to ing hash of radio commumca SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1, 19(13 no good. They dart about constantly, day and night, all over the world, doing mischief. Sometimes they are no worse than childish pranksters. Some times they are wanton destroy ers; they conceivably could be come agents of doom. The United States and other nations, including Russia, are spending huge sums and much effort in attempts to exorcise or thwart them. Whether merely mischiev ous or malevolent, the imps are electro-magnetic signals, man made and natural. Their men ace stems from what is called radio frequency interference, or RFI. We are really OPEN NOW but you are all invited to attend our FORMAL OPENING to present the LARGEST SELECTION OF BOOKS IN SOUTHERN OREGON n WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON December 4, 1963 Browsing Encouraged 122 EAST MAIN Medford, Ore. 772-2201 tions and radar observations. It has been at least suspected of responsibility for some air dis asters. In a time of war it just might pose a threat to missile and ra dar defenses. Progress Is Made Scientists are making consid erable progress in their efforts to cope with RFI, but their bat tle appears tu be never-ending. Any electrical or electronic de vice, from a motorized mouse trap to a monster television transmitter can generate RFI. So can a lightning bolt or a magnetic storm triggered by so lar flares. Most RFI is acciden tal or unintentional. Sometimes, as when the Voice of America is jammed by Soviet transmit ters, it is neither. In war. an enemy presumab ly would try every trick known to radio technology to mess up our communications, warning systems, and missile launching and guidance equipment. Often it is a case of radio frequency conflict among com ponents of the same system. In May, 1059, for example, a stray signal from an Atlas guidance system fired the missile's "de strucl" charge. Loss: $2.5 mil lion. Such incidents can be held to a minimum, at least, by tricky circuitry, artful shielding, pre cise tuning, and intricate cod ing of so - called radio com mand messages. But there is always the unexpected to con tend wll'i. Cannot Be Certain There is no way of being cer tain all parts of an exceeding ly complex electronic system will be olcclromagiicticully "compatible" until all of them are put in operation simultane ously. And not unless war comes, can such a test be made of the compatibility of elec Ironies aboard intercontinental mis siles in their silos, radars in warning systems and anli-mis-sile missiles, and radio devices in military space and land based communications. Realization of these uncer tainties led Ihe Defense Depart ment in 1061 to set up at An napolis, Mil., the electromagnet ic compatibility analysis center whose main job it is to predict potentially disastrous RFI con ditions. In a recent statement the center said: "Since the (military) services rely on the use of a tremen dous number of electronic do vices, used for communications, command and control of weap ons systems and a variety of other purposes, unintentional In terference represents a poten tial threat to military opera tions. "Peacetime problems, such as air traffic control, are also of concern." Most of the work at the mill- mm THROUGH WASHDAY with a new automatic JZcurti'tfctTt. GAS DRYER SPECIAL $199 BUDGET TERMS H mill '-rs rlnll'ir A nrortiilic ' center is secret. But it is no Re- crct that in this increasingly electronic world the RFI prob lem is becoming more serious and even dangerous. Too Much Radio As one authority said: "There is simply too much radio in the world. Every time you turn around someone invents a new device using radio energy. It's like an over-crowded highway. If too many crazy drivers get on Ihe road, you have trouble." This man said no end to elec tronic invention is discernible. He said "there are electronic mousetraps, electronic cameras, electronic parage doors, elec tronic everything." But the radio spectrum is not unlimited and there are not enough "clear channels" to go around. Hence, RFI. If it were just a case of loo many gadgets operating on the same frequencies at the same power level in the same part of the world the situation might be easirer to control. At Cape Kennedy, (Canaveral) (or ex ample, authorities shut down ra dio transmitter and other elec trical equipment in the area be fore a launching. Some Not Anticipated Some things can't, at present, be anticipated, although the An napolis center, with the help of big computers, is trving to de velop an interference predic tion system. When developed, hnw ever, such a system might not be able In forecast what happened at Ihe Point Mugu, Calif., launch complex some time ago. Drivers of radiocabs at t h e base kept getting instructions they couldn't obey. They might, for example, be ordered to go to a non-existing building. After three months of this, it was discovered that a similar service at an Alaska base was operating it cabs on the same frequency. Because of freakish and un predictable radio reflection con ditions, the California cabs were getting clear instructions from Alaska but weren't hearing their own dispatcher. Point Mugu had to change its frequency. Merely Mischievous Some of Ihe RFI imps, as noted, are merely mischievous. They explode photo flash bulbs in stores from time to time when a radar-equipped plane flies over. They create snow on the television screen for not too different reasons. They make radio-controlled garage doors roll up and down when the re frigerator turns on. Often Asked Question An often asked question is whether a hostile submarine lurking of Cane Kennedy (Can averal) or Ihe West Coast Mis sile range and destroy a just- launclied rocket. Many a rocket has been pur posely destroyed in flight by a radio command to its dcstructl charge when it went off course. These built-in charges are de signed to blow up an errant rocket on command from the ground before it can do nnv damage to any of the commu nities upon which it might oth erwise fall. Experts say a Soviet sub could trigger a U.S. rocket's de- struct mechanism only if it had transmitting devices operating in perciscly the same way as the ones used by the American ground controllers. "This," said one authority, "seems highly unlikely." Hard to Trll $ 19" DOWN uss hum $900 FREE NORMAL INSTALLATION 30 DAYS FREE TRIAL! DON'T DELAY PHONE I0DAY CAI.II'OHMAl'VCIl'lC Utilities Company Plume 772-5281, Medford 482-2116, Aihland O O s f f o o o w It is hard for a layman, grop ing among supurioiis signals and possibly apocryphal tales, to tell what is false and what is fact in Ihe KF1 jungle. Take Ihe case of the ghostly icievision rrograms. the ex tremely short wave television signals are supposed not to ling er in the earth's ionosphere, the region of charged gas particles which mirrors longer waves and makes ordinary long distance radio communication possible. But strange things happen in the inosphere, and sometimes I microwaves, which should ram ble on through to outer space, get bouneri back to earth, pos sibly by Ihe ionized trails of burning meteors. Annals Full of Tails At any rate, the annals of j electronic lore are full of tales about television shows fro mi the oilier s;de of the globe ap- 5S' pearing on screens in this conn- try. This they have no business! tjt' to do, but electronics experts say u coiiui nappen. Somewhat more far out is the story of the television broad cast which abruptly obtrudes it self again on television screens (our or five years after Its or iginal transmission This em pties that Ihe signals were somehow caught in near space I and lurked there until some thing sent them back to earth. A radio scientist who passed on this story w as asked if he be lieved it. lie said presumably honest men had reported it. "Let's put it this way it's! not impossible," he said. 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Under an appeal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi zation (UNESCO), 47 countries of the world, rich and poor, have agreed to scrape together 36 million dollars to save the two temples before they are drowned by rising Nile waters irom the new Aswan Dam. Contracts have been signed with engineering firms to carry out a bwedish plan to chop the temples into five-ton hunks and reassemble them in a new building on top of the cliff where tourists can see them for future centuries. Can Pull Out Egypt agreed to this plan ear lier on Nov. 15, but has an es cape clause. The United Stales is one of the 47 countries which have promised moncv for the project. The American share was agreed to be $12 mil lion but Congress has not yet i appropriated tne money.- If Congress docs not act by March 15 next, according to UNESCO Director-General Rene Malicit, Egypt can cancel t h e project and pay an indemnity to the seven firms Swedish, German, Italian and Egyptian which have contracted to cut up the temples and move them to safe ground. Mahcu said engineers are op timistic it can be done, al though some archaeologists arc "worried" about the delicate operation of culling Into the crumbling temples with their sculptures and carvings. Among Great Wonders The temples are one of the great wonders of the ancient world. They were built during the reign of Ramses II, around 1232 B. C. They stand alone on a sandy bank of the Nile, more than six miles from the nearest village. Recently a group of American tourists, including myself, trav eled four days by boat, slept two nights on the beach here with the wild dogs and scarabs and lived on green watermelon in order to sec the ruins. The trip began at Cairo on a new Hungarian-made sleeper train with wardrobe closets and air conditioning that hurtles up the river to Aswan. From there, we took a Sudanese steamship that runs from Ouadi Haifa, Sudan, to Aswan and back. Our cabinmatcs were Sudan ese, Including women who wore blue lipstick and gold jewelry and painted the soles of their feel and palms of their hands black. Satellite Over Horizon As the boat steamed along at night, a Soviet or American satellite moved above the hori zon over scenes unchanged from those In the Abu Simbel temples. Buffalo turned water wheels. The landscape was in shades of brown, from mud adobe huts to camels, with splotches of white that were ibis birds and men in their night shirt-like robes and tur bans. Archaeologists from various countries were digging along the Nile banks for what treas ures they can find before the region is flooded by the Dam, beginning next year. Buys Pints of Water The second night we discover ed the boat stops here only .10 minutes in pitch darkness. The agreed to scrape together $36 million to 3ave Ihe two famed Abu Simbel temples before they are drowned by rising Nile waters from the new Aswan Dam. (UPI) r-Old Statues To Be From Waters of Dam only way tu see the temples is to get off and wait for it to return from Sudan. Six of us Americans bought a pint of water each from the steward, grabbed our luggage and scrambled down the gang plank. We slept, along with the scarabs and sniffing wild dogs, at the loot ol 165 icet high statues of Ramses II in front of the larger temple just a few yards from the water's edge. the lime to see Abu Simbel is at dawn because it was built so that (lie first rays of sun strike the altar inside this tem ple. As the sun rose, the colos sal statues of Ramses changed from gray to rose, then gold and finally a sandy color In the scorching sun. The larger temple, dedicated to Ramses and the god Re, has three main rooms, its walls and columns covered with engrav ings of Ramses' war victories. Nearby a smaller temple was hacked out of the cliff in honor of Ramses' wife, Ncfcrtarl, and dedicated to the goddess Ha-thor. SOBBING SIMS SAYS We Are Now At 41 SOUTH FRONT 8th & FRONT (Repair Shop Still Open At Old Location) j SHOP OUR j NEW STORE for Bicycles Hobbies I Models I Road Race Sets Holiday Decorating I Supplies PARK AND SHOP X OPEN NITES 7:00 TO 9:00 MS CYCLE & HOBBY SHOP 41 SOUTH FRONT STREET 8th & FRONT