COMMUNICATIONS: Monitor

In a forest of shiny white poles on the treeless prairie six miles west of Grand Island, Neb., radio technicians under the expert direction of Benjamin Wolf last week put the finishing touches to the Federal Government's most immense receiving station.

Placed at the radio centre of the U. S. amid good atmospheric conditions and well removed from high tension power lines, this station will serve the Department of Commerce as a monitor of the air, capable of bringing in the most distant high-frequency broadcasts throughout the...

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