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Scheidt Named Marketing

And Sales Vice President

For American Steamship

Michael M. Scheidt

Michael M. Scheidt has been promoted to vice president-market- ing and sales of American Steam- ship Company (ASC), Buffalo, N.Y.

The announcement was made by

ASC's senior vice president, Ned A.

Smith. Mr. Scheidt will be active- ly involved with the planning and development of long-term market- ing strategies and policies; he will continue to be responsible for the sales function.

He began his career with ASC in 1967 as an administrative assistant for the grain brokerage and agency operations of Boland & Cornelius, a subsidiary of ASC. Other positions he has held include traffic dispatch- er, assistant vice president-traffic, vice president-business develop- ment, and vice president-sales. He graduated from the University of

Vermont with a BA degree in busi- ness administration.

Another change in ASC's market- ing department announced by Mr.

Smith was the promotion of Rus- sell W. Luther to assistant vice president-sales. An account execu- tive with ASC since 1981, he will remain in charge of his various

Great Lakes accounts as well as

ASC's marketing efforts off the

Lakes.

Radio-Holland USA, B.V.

Automates Coastal Station

WLO's Radiotelex Service

Radio-Holland USA, B.V. recent- ly announced that Mobile Marine

Radio, Inc., owners/operators of

Coastal Station WLO Radio, North

America, has awarded Radio-Hol- land USA, B.V., in Houston, and

Thrane & Thrane A/S in Denmark the contract to supply an automatic radiotelex system that will be used by WLO Radio, North America, for its automatic marine telex service.

The system initially includes a minimum of eight simultaneous ra- dio-telex modem channels each equipped with automatic free signal generation and provision for later direct computer interface. The sys- tem includes channel processors for automatic forwarding of ship-to- shore messages into the internation- al telex network.

The channel processors include features that will later permit direct

May 15, 1985 39 ship's dialing to domestic/interna- tional telex subscribers and auto- matic rerouting of messages to pre- determined subscribers.

The initial phase should be in- stalled mid-1985, and will be pre- pared for later upgrading with Mod- el TT-1000 communications pro- cessors for store-and-forward telex handling in both shore-to-ship and ship-to-shore directions.

WLO Radio pioneered radiotelex at sea 11 years ago and was the first

United States coastal station to of- fer this service. The station was also the first to receive a Selcall number (No. 1090) issued by the FCC for coastal stations in the United

States. The station at present is the largest provider of radio-telex com- munication and now will be the first coastal station in the USA offering completely automatic end-to-end telex-at-sea communications.

Worldwide, WLO Radio, North

America, will join Singapore Radio,

Scheveningen Radio, Lyngby Radio, and Burnham (Portishead) Radio, all of which are now operational with the Thrane & Thrane automat- ic channel processor radiotelex sys- tem.

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