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Seven students chose to forego Christmas merriment this year and instead strung 5,000 feet of cable under the Weeks foot-bridge to bring WHRV broadcasts to the Business School for the first time.

Led by Eric L. Peterson 3B and Robert D. Palmer 2B, the volunteers connected a tuning unit at McCulloch Hall with the Network's Winthrop House transmitter. Cable was laid in University steam tunnels, but crossed the Charles attached to piers of the bridge.

The entire Network transmitter was rebuilt to gain sufficient power to carry across the river. In reconstructing it, the group added several improved designs. John V. Bouyouces '49, Network technical director, predicted that the new transmission system would eliminate all of the station's current broadcasting troubles.

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