Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without the facilities of a large club transmitter, Harvard's hams must be content to broadcast at a maximum power of 150-watts, generally on the 10-meter band. This band requires only a 16-foot antenna, the size most easily erected by the Buildings and Grounds Department (cost, $15 for installation). There's only one trouble: every nearby wire about 16-feet long is "sympathetic" to this band, and puts out a signal which can be picked up over phonographs, and radio and TV sets. Maximum operation at other frequencies calls for longer aerials and more amperage than...
Jerry Porter took 19th place in the slalom, with Houser 31st, Captain Bill Wasserman 35th, and John Hart, normally a cross-country and jump man, 49th. Harvard could field only a three-man team in the 50-meter jump. Hart jumped 110 and 105 feet to place 28th. Wasserman and Captain-elect Jim Weaver followed in 35th and 40th positions respectively...
Pete Dillingham just missed qualifying for the National AAU one-meter dive finals in New Haven yesterday. Varsity diver Win Briggs finished well behind the freshman star as Bruce Harlan, of Ohio State, successfully defended his crown with 138.10 points...
...swimming competition, Yale freshman John Marshall won the 220-yard freestyle in the world's record time of 2:05.5 and Princeton's Bob Brawner took the 220-yard breaststroke in 2:29.3, an American record. In the same race, Joe Verdeur, of LaSalle, set a world 200-meter mark...
Jack Calhoun, Ohio State, was the only afternoon qualifier who failed to place in the finals last night. The three-meter championship will be held today in Yale's Payne-Whitney Exhibition Pool, and Dillingham and Briggs will also compete in this event...