RADIO TO USE WIRING PLAN

From the results of the present experimenting in Gore Hall of Winthrop House, the Crimson network will make its final plans for the new wired system of wireless that it will install throughout the college.

Because last year's steam pipe system caused a great deal of air radiation, it had to be discarded in favor of some wiring system. While the actual method that will be employed during the next year is still undecided, it seems likely that the radio frequency waves from the central set will be distributed over shielded cable to the various buildings of the college. From there it will be released to the students' radio sets by way of the steel framework of those buildings.

There would of course be one exception to this plan in that some buildings were built before the time of steel construction. In these, situated mainly in the Yard, the programs of the network will be released over water pipes or some other metal framework within the structures.

The present experiments that the network is making are confined entirely to Gore Hall in Winthrop House where the main transmitter has been set up. These tests should determine the actual arrangement of the wire hookups to the steel framework. The present plan is to make a complete circuit out of the building's frame and through use of shielded cable to eliminate the standing waves on the distribution lines and to minimize them on the building, thus cutting down on the air radiation which was the bugbear of last season's attempts.

While present findings are entirely too inadequate to make definite predictions on the success of the plan, Charles W. Oliphant and Gordon M. McCouch who have been conducting the experiments, are optimistic.