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Tests of the radio spectrum to determine the optimum frequency for polar communication will be made at the institute, in order to have a license reserved for a suitable wave length for the Harvard-station, WIDMW. So far as is known, this station, located in the Geographical institute building, will be the only station in the world officially in communication with Admiral Byrd on his coming expedition although numerous amateurs will doubtless pick up his messages. The antenna system on the station here will, in the near future, be altered so as to direct impulses to the south instead...
...Byrd expedition originally planned to leave on its second trip to the South Polar regions during this month, but other duties of Admiral Byrd forced postponement of the trip until next tall. Geographical Exploration time to carry out extensive tests of equipment. T. S. MaCaleh is directing the tests...
...only will the polar yearlings have the same instruments; they will use them on concert. At prearranged hours of certain days all the stations will be doing the same thing. Thus at midnight. 2 :00 a. m., 6:00 a. m., 8:00 a. m.. noon. 2:00 p. m., 6:00 p. m. and 8:00 p. m. Greenwich Mean Time on Aug. 9-10, Sept. 13-14, Oct. 11-12, and so on around the calendar of the Polar Year's afternoon twilight, night and morning, each station will waft into the air a big rubber...
...Polar Year expense account has been cut to $30,000. Of the U. S. observers. Dr. Ralph Belknap, University of Michigan scientist, will be farthest north at the Kraulshafen, Greenland, station. The others will be at Point Barrow and Fairbanks, Alaska. Abandoned are plans for a station in Grant Land where the Northern Lights are thought to originate...
...dedicate their work and get away. Mrs. Stafford wanted time to buy her boys their school clothes. Captain Bartlett wanted to get away before the autumn freeze. Dr. Belknap wanted to get down the Greenland coast to Kraulshafen to get on with his part in the Second International Polar Year...