Radio Broadcast - 1923, August - 86 Pages, 8.5 ... - VacuumTubeEra

THE MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYS, IN ETAH, NORTH GREENLANDIn Touch with the World from theArcticHow Dr. Mac Millan Came to Take Radio with Him to the Far North. TheQuestion of Communication Through the "Auroral Band." How Broadcastsfrom Civilization will Relieve the Greatest Hardship of the Expedition, andHow the Explorers will Flash Back Weekly Code Messages to CivilizationBy BURNHAM McLEARYyou lounge in youreasy chair this winter, listen-to violins in some distantingWHILEcity, give a thought to thebrave ship Bowdoin, captainedby Donald B. MacMillan, the Arcticexplorer; for he and his seven ship-mates willlikely enough be listening to that same orchestraand perhaps be dancing to its music on thesparkling ice-fields of the Frozen North.For radio is on its way to meet the Eskimo.About a month agoit set out from Wiscasset,Maine, ensconced in the forward end of CaptainMacMillan's Sg-foot schooner and bound forthe northernmost limits of Eskimo Land,hardly three hundred miles from the Pole itself.And while you are picturing the pleasureswhich radio will bring to these Arctic explorers,stand by and listen for the signals of their faroffstation. For under the ice-battened hatchesConnecticut; and his hand on the key willof the Bowdoin, there is a wireless operator,Donald H. Mix by name, who hails from Bristol,be flashing each week a five-hundred word storyof adventure (in a special code prepared for thepurpose by the Government) to seventy of theleading newspapers and magazines of America.He will transmit, also, coded diagrams of allnew lands and harbors found and charted bythe expedition. Each message will be signedwith the letters WNP. The full name of thesending station, happily christened by theGovernment, is Wireless North Pole.It's a great thing for radio, this adventuringinto the land of perpetual stillness, undoubtedlythe greatest from the standpoint of