WHRV to Reach Yard Halls Soon; Work Nears End

Yardlings will have their first chance to hear WHRV shortly after they return from the Christmas vacation, as the Network announced yesterday that its long heralded Yard wiring project has reached its final stages.

"We can't promise anything," Gerald Y. Genn '49, WHRV president, said, "but if things go well, the Crimson Network should surely be hitting the Yard by final examinations, and perhaps earlier."

Work in "Hot-House"

Members of the radio station have been working on the extensive task since the beginning of the term, David E. Blackmer '50, one of the technical leaders, said. About a half-mile of cable has been laid in "hot-house" underground tunnels from the station's Winthrop House transmitter to the three tuning units in the Yard.

The 7 x 7 ft. tunnel is a part of the University steam heating lines, and the temperature there is never below 110. "You can't call that good working conditions in any man's language," Blackmer declared.

Three tuning units in Wigglesworth C, Weld, and University Hall will connect with the power lines which control electricity to the other hall in the Yard. These units cover the south, southwest, and north Yard sections, respectively.

Cables Laid

The cables have already been laid and the tuning units have been hooked onto the University power lines by maintenance workers. The only remaining job will be to get the right proportion of volume for each of these units.

The tunnel to the Yard runs from the Winthrop transmitter, through a short section of the dining hall tunnel, under Lowell, and up Linden Street. It consists of a narrow catwalk under Massachusetts Avenue between the top of the subway tunnel and the street, before connecting with the first tuning at Wiggles-worth.