NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



era of wireless the ennui of the personnel of polar 

 expeditions throughout the long dark and depress- 

 ing "polar night" taxed the resources of com- 

 manders to overcome. 



Today with the use of short-wave radio we have 

 demonstrated the practicability of directing a 

 station in the Arctic throughout the long winter 

 night from the campus of the University of 

 Michigan. This station has been that of the Mili- 

 tary Department of the University in charge of 

 Lieutenant Richard T. Schlosberg, U. S. A., but 

 operated by students of the Signal Corps section 

 of the R. O. T. C. 



Few of the inhabitants of the city of Ann Arbor 

 have realized when they have passed the southeast 

 corner of the University campus on some winter 

 evening and have observed an intermittent spark- 

 ing on a wire above their heads, that this was carry- 

 ing a message directly to the weather station on 

 the summit of Mount Evans in the interior of 

 Greenland. Our schedule has usually been main- 

 tained throughout the past two years on Monday, 

 Wednesday and Saturday evenings from October 

 to May or June, and by special arrangement on 

 many other nights. The communications have 

 sometimes been interrupted by the aurora borealis, 

 which blankets the short-wave signals much more 



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