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Miller: time a radio wave could not be bent. They didn't have 

 enough power to bend it over the hills and down into 

 this hole here in Martinez. Many times the lower 

 elevations didn't get good reception. 



So we conceived immediately to build our own 

 radio station. We installed here the first radio 

 station, under my supervision. And about a year 

 later I wasn't satisfied with that. We had lost a 

 prisoner and they directed us all in our cars to a 

 cul de sac type of place back of Mt. Diablo. When 

 I found that they were directing all the men to the 

 same road that X was on I then and there made up 

 my mind that I'd stop this practice. This was the 

 father of the two-way radio whereby I was able to 

 talk back to my office. We then gave service to many 

 cities and many counties around the state of Califor- 

 nia, including Lake County. 



We now have the three-way radio station, but we 

 made another innovation. We couldn't get into the 

 holes, like Berkeley could, because we didn't have 

 the power to bend the wave into tne lower elevations. 

 So we installed on the top of Mt. Diablo wnat is now 



