New Police Radio in Lassen County
December 16, 1944
Sheriff Olin S. Johnson has officially announced that Lassen County now has its police radio in operation, linking Lassen County police with other law enforcement bodies in Northern California counties.
Susanville’s police radio station is on the air daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and as may be required throughout the night.
Operating on a frequency of 1722 kilocycles for short wave, the automatically operated receiving and sending station, has also two radio equipped automobiles in service, one belonging to the Sheriff’s office and the other to the highway patrol.
It is expected that four cars of each of the services will have radio equipment when installations are fully made.
With call letters KAEX, the radio which involved a cost of approximately $5,000, links Lassen County directly with similar police radio stations in Reno, Chico, Sacramento, and other northern California points.
The radio station will enable the sheriff’s office and other police and official agencies to receive and send messages in a radius of 50 to 60 miles, from which distance other stations will be able to relay to yet further points.
