Wireless Club Will Send Messages to All Europe and America From New High Power Station on Top of Stadium

Work started yesterday on the erection of the new high power radio relay station of the Harvard Wireless Club to be located on top of the Stadium. The call letters will be IXJ-IAP.

Two masts, fifty feet high, are to be placed on top of the west tower of the Stadium from which will be hung a cage aerial of about 50 feet in length. This will give the aerial, when it is up, a clearance of approximately 150 feet above the ground.

A cage lead in will be taken into a wooden cabin which also is to be placed on top of the Stadium and adjoining the football press seats. This cabin is to be 12 by 12 and will contain all the necessary apparatus.

W. C. Bohn '25, President of the Club, declared that the new station is not to be used nor equipped for broadcasting. It is merely intended to take the place of the old Club station which was located in Westmorley Court and which was found to be ill adapted to the needs of the Club.

As soon as the new station is in operation it is expected that intercollegiate news items will be handled in conjunction with the work of the Intercollegiate Radio League which is now functioning. It is barely possible that a transatlantic service will also be in stalled.

Last year the Wireless Club, in spite of its poor location on the ground floor of Westmorley succeeded in maintaining almost continuous communication with European countries, especially England. At that time numerous messages were handled for men in college without charge.

Since no tests have ever been made by a radio station transmitting from the top of the Stadium it is impossible at the present moment to determine the actual range the new apparatus will possess. It is expected, however, that results will not be inferior to those obtained at the old station, which was heard in almost every state of the Union and in Europe.