WHRB Widens Range To Reach Med School

WHRB has begun the new term with several improvements in its broadcasting facilities, including the extension of its coverage to the Vanderbilt Hall Medical School dormitory in Boston. Network programs can now reach every dormitory in the University.

Undergraduate technicians are improving reception in Straus and Matthews Halls, where it has been weak in the part. Other steps in the station's expansion include the purchase of a $400 tape recorder and the setting up of a new studio to be used by disc jockeys. The recorder will be used for covering speeches, forums, musical events, and on-the-spot news, as soon as an amplier can be built for it.

Vanderbilt Hall is being reached by a telephone company transmission line which connects to a transmitter in the dorm basement. There is also a possibility of extension of service to the Medical School laboratory buildings according to William R. Lamb '52, the station's chief engineer.