******************************************************************* * University and School Amateur Radio Club List Version .06 * ******************************************************************* February 14, 1995 Welcome to the University and School Amateur Radio Club list. The purpose of this list is to provide information about amateur radio clubs at schools and universities. The current editor of this list is... Jeffrey Luszcz N2TIQ jeff@gauss.arc.nasa.gov This list will be availible for ftp from the following servers: oak.oakland.edu Also I will be posting this list once every month onto the following newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc rec.radio.info !!!IMPORTANT!!! If you do NOT want your club's information presented here then please inform me of this wish through email. !!!IMPORTANT!!! The current data format for submitting club information is.... -------- SCHOOL: NAME: ADDRESS: CLUB OFFICERS REPEATERS: CLUB STATION: STATION TELE#: ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: NUMBER OF MEMBERS: BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: HISTORY --------- If everyone follows this form it makes it easier to edit and maintain the list. I see this format changing as the list grows and new concerns become raised. Please address your email to me as follows FAQ -(name of school). For example... Subject: FAQ - Cornell University This makes it easy for me to move the mail around and put it in the right folders. I am working on getting this information into a database which will let me change the FAQ around easier and put it in alphabetical order. Watch this space. The FAQ is now in alphabetical order, great day indeed. DISCLAIMER: Feel free to copy and disperse this list freely as long as it remains in its original format. If you do not want your clubs information in this list then email the list owner and tell him so. Also... I am unable to provide any other information regarding college clubs other than what appears on the list. Either the organization has requested that it be kept confidential, or I just don't know. If you do find out, please direct such information to my submission address above so that others may benefit from it. ******************************************************************* * Here is the list * ******************************************************************* SCHOOL: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) NAME: ARC of the University of Arkansas, Inc ADDRESS: CLUB OFFICERS President:Peter Laws, N5UWY - V31WY 3217 Bell, U of A, Fayetteville AR 72701 Dr. Charlton K5GOE, Advisor jsc@engr.uark.edu REPEATERS: none CLUB STATION: W5YM, ex-W5JNI, exx-W5YM, exxx-5YM TS430S (HF), TS790S (Sat), misc other ORGANIZATIONS: ARRL YEAR STARTED: station licensed '20, club traced to '49 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 20-30 BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: HISTORY Oldest license found - 5YM - dated 6/4/20, but there is anecdotal evidence that we may have been licensed in 1914. The station was active in the early '20s prior to the opening of KFMQ, the U of A's first broadcast station. Logs have been found for the '32-'34 period when the station (*W*5YM) was active on 'phone using a Class B modulation amplifier built as a class project. Loy Barton, inventor of Class B, was a graduate and faculty member of the U of A. Haven't found any relics from '34 - '49. 1949 we were granted W5JNI and our station was in the then-Business Admin building. We suspect the trustee knew nothing of the previous station as he was not in engineering. We returned to W5YM in 1952 and the club has been going strong pretty much ever since. ======= SCHOOL: Baylor University NAME: Baylor University Amateur Radio Club (BARC) ADDRESS: PO Box 85584 Baylor University Waco, TX 76798-5584 CLUB OFFICERS Secretary/Treasurer:Stephen Purdy KC5CGV REPEATERS: none CLUB STATION: Kennwood TS-450, Yaesu FT 5100 Dual Band(2M/440) Mobile 40' tower w/ triband beam antenna ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: about 1992 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 20 BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: HISTORY ====== SCHOOL: UC Berkeley NAME: University of California Amateur Radio Club, W6BB ADDRESS: 300 Eshleman Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720 CLUB OFFICERS President: James Chesko AB6YH chesko@csa3.lbl.gov VP: Michael Dahl KC6UFR michaeld@uclink.berkeley.edu Secretary/treas: Jeanne Luce KE6DQW jeanluc@cmsa.berkeley.edu REPEATERS: None CLUB STATION: Kenwood TS-440s/at, linear amp, 40 meter dipole, PK-232, Azden PCS-2000 2 meter rig, a couple 440 HTs, miscellanea. ORGANIZATIONS: ARRL affiliated since 1949 (our records say it goes back to 1921, but ARRL has no record of this) YEAR STARTED: 1914 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 22 voting members, roster of around 75 BANDS ACTIVE: HF bands, 2 meter and 440 (some sat work) E-MAIL ADDRESSES: general membership: W6BB@violet.berkeley.edu officers/board: hams@violet.berkeley.edu HISTORY I worked on this last year. Essentially, we were formed in 1914 as one of the first stations on the west coast. We started DX receiving experiments at this time, and soon established skeds with the University of Washington and a few other schools. Our first call was 6BB and dates back to at least 1920. I think oneof our members was the first woman to get a commercial radiotelephone operators license in 1924. Early on we were also connected withthe commercial station here at Cal, and did early broadcasts from football games, alumni dinners, etc. Club fell into decline in the1930's, but was revived after the war, and has followed typical boomand bust cycles since. =========== SCHOOL: Bradley University NAME: Amateur Radio Club ADDRESS: Sisson Hall #309 Peoria IL 61625 CLUB OFFICERS President: Geoff Gaebel KB9DUX REPEATERS: none, but working on one for 2 meters CLUB STATION: W9JWC ORGANIZATIONS: none YEAR STARTED: early 60's (no activity from '69 to '82) NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 10-15 BANDS ACTIVE: HF, VHF packet, and others E-MAIL ADDRESSES: w9jwc@camelot.bradley.edunote:this forwards to ALL members HISTORY: started in early '60's with no activity from '69 to '82 ========= SCHOOL: Brown University NAME: Brown Radio Club ADDRESS: c/o Mike Deignan, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912 REPEATERS: 441.750+ (220 & 1.2ghz CLUB STATION: K1AD YEAR STARTED: Decades ago BANDS ACTIVE: 1.6khz-1.2ghz E-MAIL ADDRESSES: michael_deignan@brown.edu ====== SCHOOL: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo NAME: Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club, W6BHZ ADDRESS: University Union Box 53, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 CLUB OFFICERS: President - Kirk J. Smith, KD6RCT Vice President - Dean Wood, KC6IZR Secretary - Trisha Ginsburg, KE6DLI Treasurer - Craig Gullickson, KC6CEX Repeater Manager - Ryan Matteson, KD6HPC Station Manager - Dave Evans, N6UEZ Vending Manager - Mark Smith, KD6JTS EEEC Rep - Ian Morcott, KD6HHI Trustee - Bob Stadtherr, KI6WO Staff Advisor - Dan Malone, KC6WOT REPEATERS: 146.760- (low level, on campus) CLUB STATION: Yaseu FT-990, Drake amp, Kenwood TS-440AT, Packet, 2m all mode STATION TELE#: (805) 756-2737 (SLO-ARES) ORGANIZATIONS: ARRL, ARES/RACES YEAR STARTED: 1947 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 19 voting, 19 non-voting BANDS ACTIVE: 70cm, 2m, 10-80m E-MAIL ADDRESSES: w6bhz.info@w6bhz.elee.calpoly.edu World Wide Web URL: http://www.calpoly.edu/~dmalone/w6bhz/ HISTORY We're still looking for our roots, but have narrowed it down to 1947. That's about as good as it gets for now, but we're looking for more history on our club. Our club is an Engineering Department affiliated club, but recently we're attracting members from other walks of life, adding to our diversity. We're involved in ARES/RACES, with our station being capable of running on our own emergency generator at a moment's notice. We've recently obtained a high-level mountaintop site, and are working on the basics there (ie: electricity, antenna masts, etc) and look forward to expanding our local coverage. Current plans for the mountaintop include: 440 repeater linked to our 146.760 repeater on campus (w/autopatch) 2m crossband repeater (linked to 440 repeater) with two-tone paging capabilities for ARES/RACES callouts 2m repeater on the WALA (Western Amateur Linking Association) system 2m digipeater on the Packet DX-Cluster 440 digipeater for high-speed digital (56kb?) for real-time Internet Interests of individual club members includes DXing, ARES/RACES, FM voice, packet, ATV, and 10GHz digital. ====== SCHOOL: Georgia Tech NAME: Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club ADDRESS: Room E-180 Electrical Engineering Bldg, Georgia Tech CLUB OFFICERS Sponsor: Dr. Paul Steffes (paul.steffes@ee.gatech.edu) President: Dave Kunkee K0DI (gt5830b@prism.gatech.edu) VP: Jeff Tucker N9HZQ (tucker@eedsp.gatech.edu) Treasurer: Dave Huggins N4RMM (david.huggins@gtri.gatech.edu) Secretary: Carrie Carter N9JSR (carter@magnolia.gatech.edu) Shack Steward: Mike Whaley KD4UGI (whaley@hibiscus.gatech.edu) REPEATERS: We have a repeater on 145.15 (input 144.55) located on the GT campus, with a remote site on 145.05 in Duluth, GA. CLUB STATION: W4AQL Shack phone: (404) 894-2971 Our shack is very well equipped, with 2 Kenwood TS-940S's, an icom and a Yaesu VHF rig (ferget the numbers) two Alpha 77 amps on the Kenwoods, and the following antennas: TH-6, 10,15,and 20 meter beams, 2m and 70cm satellite antennas, and 80 and 160 meter dipoles. We probably have more up there, but between the 3 towers I can't remember all of it :-) ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: NUMBER OF MEMBERS: BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: HISTORY GTARC was started by 1927 for sure, and we believe that it may have existed as early as 1911- we're still trying to corroborate that info. We have approxi- mately 50 members or so, who operate on all bands and all modes, especially while contesting! The club has an email server at listserv@gitvm1.gatech.edu, or you can send mail to the club account at eew4aql@prism.gatech.edu. We would be very happy to hear from any interested folks out there, especially those who are or have been associated with Tech or the club. ======= SCHOOL: Harvard University NAME: Harvard Wireless Club ADDRESS: 6 Linden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 CLUB OFFICERS: Trustee, Mike Manafo K3UOC President, Joe Shelton AB5TC REPEATERS: None CLUB STATION: W1AF Rig: ICOM IC781 and IC4KL Linear Amplifier with a log periodic ICOM IC735 and IC2KL Linear Amplifier with a low beam Packet Cluster (currently not working) VHF 2-meter all mode transceiver Everex 386 PC and TNC for packet operations STATION TELE#: (617) 876-4131 ORGANIZATIONS: ARRL affiliated YEAR STARTED: 1909 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: approximately 20 BANDS ACTIVE: most HF bands E-MAIL ADDRESSES: w1af@husc.harvard.edu HISTORY: The Harvard Wireless Club, founded in 1909, is America's oldest amateur radio club. HWC operators have made thousands of contacts in a variety of transmission modes over the past eight decades. Most recently, HWC won the second place in 1994 School Club Roundup for Colleges and Universities (See QST, September 1994 issue, page 124 for details.). ======= SCHOOL: Iowa State University NAME: Cyclone Amateur Radio Club ADDRESS: Box 7275 Friley Hall, Ames, Iowa 50012-0001 CLUB OFFICERS President: Todd Wheeler N0NUM tewheele@iastate.edu Friley 5567 Bennett Ames, Iowa 50012-0001 (515) 296-3057 VP Steve Knapp sknapp@iastate.edu KA9QOA Sec/Tr Jason Amdor jtamdor@iastate.edu KB0AZI Rptr Ch Jason White jdwhite@iastate.edu N0RWU Activ. Brant Wehr bwehr@iastate.edu N0UTT Faculty Advisors: Clyde Walter AD0H (515) 294-8632 Mike Chaplin WA7SSO chaplin@iastate.edu REPEATERS: 147.375+WA0KHF/ROWNED AND OPERATED BY CLUB 443.375+WA7SSO/ROWNED AND OPERATED BY WA7SSO CLUB STATION: Club Station Located in A147 Friley Hall. Key access only to club members. Equipment: Packet Station Icom 720 HF Rig Icom 22S 2mtr Rig and other equipment ORGANIZATIONS: ARRL, 10-10 YEAR STARTED: NUMBER OF MEMBERS: approx 20 BANDS ACTIVE: 2 meters and 70cm E-MAIL ADDRESSES: Listservers: carc@iastate.edugeneral club maillist carccabinet@iastate.edu cabinet member maillist carc_classes@iastate.edufor testing and license class info HISTORY The club has been around for many years. The original club was W0YI. It was founded over 75 years ago. The W0YI club call is still maintained here at ISU by one of our faculty members. Our club has approximately 20 members who are somewhat active. There are many more hams here at ISU, but many of them are too busy with their studies and other clubs to become involved with the CARC. We are always in search of new membership. Our members can usually be found on 2meters or 70cm. At this point in time, there is very little HF activity in the club. Our club has been involved at ISU for many years. We have meetings several times per month. Every spring, we set up an open house display and help with communications for the annual VEISHEA celebration, which is the largest student-run event of its kind in the United States. We provide communications for the VEISHEA parade, calling tow trucks, ambulances, and the police if the need arises. It is best for new prospective members or people interested in the club to call me or Clyde Walter at the numbers above. I am only at ISU during the Fall and Spring semesters, while Clyde is a professor who is here year around if the need arises to contact the club in the summer months. ====== SCHOOL: Juniata College NAME: Juniata College Amateur Radio Society ADDRESS: Huntingdon, Pennsylvania 16652 Club station in Brumbaugh Science Center room P222 CLUB OFFICERS: Bill Blazina K3EAV Cheif Honcho NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 6 members 1995 CLUB STATION: Active on 80m-10m 2M satellite and FM , 432Mhz. and 1296 Mhz. EMAIL ADDRESSES: blazina@juncol.juniata.eduX-News: vax rec.radio.info:6152 HISTORY: JCARS was started in 1981 with the primary focus of satellite operation. We were the first Ham radio club in central Pennsylvania to have an active satellite station and were early users of Oscar 8 and Oscar 10. JCARS offered amateur radio classes from 1981 thru 1993 for the college students as well as local citizens. We are going to resume these classes this winter as well as offering licensing exams on a regular basis as we have in the past. ====== SCHOOL: Middle Tennessee State University NAME: Raider ARC ADDRESS: CLUB OFFICERS President:John Schmidt (KD4EAI)(ggjns@knuth.mtsu.edu) Vice President:Kelly Fulks (KC4RDJ)(csklf@knuth.mtsu.edu) Secretary/Treasurer:Mark Bailey (N4XHX)(csmjb@knuth.mtsu.edu) Trustee:Mack Thweatt (KX4L)(csmack@knuth.mtsu.edu) Faculty Advisor:Homer Brown (WB4PAX)(cshomer@knuth.mtsu.edu) REPEATERS: Digipeaters? Yep. Voice? Nope. Maybe a 6m. rptr. someday, dunno. CLUB STATION: W4EFQ Full TCP/IP Internet Gateway station (gw.w4efq.ampr.org) - 9600 baud packet on 440.975 MHz TCP/IP, AX25, NetROM 9-el. yagi at 75' AGL (680' elev.), link to Short Mtn TN Digi - 1200 baud packet on 145.770 MHz TCP/IP, AX25, NetROM J-pole at 80' AGL (685' elev.), solid 40 mi. coverage - Internet wormhole links to Memphis TN, Krakow, Poland & Auburn AL - Key station in TENNET (statewide packet linkage) project (ask us for details!) Kenwood TS-140S for 160-10m HF coverage Alinco DR-112 for 2m data (sometimes voice) TEKK 440 MHz rockbound 2 watt radio for data Home-brewed 80286 PC running WG7J NOS 1.09 (testing 1.10) Gracilis PackeTwin card for 9600 baud packet AEA PK-232MBX for 1200 baud packet, occasional HF packet too GAP 40-10m vertical Cushcraft 20-15-10 3-el. directional ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: 1960s NUMBER OF MEMBERS: varies, 9-10 typical BANDS ACTIVE: 2m and 70 cm packet mostly, JNOS "Converse" mode especially; 145.49 (-600) wide-area voice rptr. on Short Mtn. (McMinnville), TN 10m voice, esp. 28300-28500 kHz E-MAIL ADDRESSES: (open to anyone, not a closed list) - rarc-l@knuth.mtsu.edu (list address) - listserv@knuth.mtsu.edu (listserver) HISTORY The MTSU club has been around since at least the 1960s, first as a trusteeship of the Dept. of Industrial Studies, and now under the Dept. of Computer Science. Membership has been small because the historic mission of the University was that of a teacher's college (thankfully that's changing). The Raider Amateur Radio Club is a key player in the packet radio field, and its members provide part of the core support in a project to bring high-speed (56k bps and up) packet connectivity to the entire state of Tennessee, from Mountain City to Memphis. ========== SCHOOL: Northwestern University NAME: W9BGX ADDRESS: CLUB OFFICERS President:Peter Anvin, N9ITP, Vice President:Albert Schmeltzer, WN9S, Secretary:Mark Brodsky, KB9BLY, REPEATERS: CLUB STATION: W9BGX Excellent shortwave equipment; An ICOM 728 feeding a Drake LR7 linear; our antenna is a Mosley Pro-95 at a height of approximately 110 ft. We are looking into adding rooftop 160, 80, 40 and 30 m dipole. VHF, UHF and packet equipment not yet; we are working on it. We have an antenna and tower, but no rig. ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: NUMBER OF MEMBERS: About a dozen; currently activity has been low since our station pretty much requires a General, and many of our members are only Technicians because of the code. BANDS ACTIVE: Currently mostly on 20 m E-MAIL ADDRESSES: president@w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu vp@w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu secretary@w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu advisor@w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu nuars-request@w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu (LISTSERVER) HISTORY The Northwestern Amateur Radio Society dates back until late 40s or early 50s. It has been affiliated with the McCormick school of Technology and the department of Electrical Engineering since its inception. The club has achieved many awards over the years, including one of the very early 5-band DXCC's. In 1991 a storm took down our main tower and antenna, and the shack had fallen into disrepair. However, in 1992 Drs. Allen Taflove and Alan Sahakian took over the faculty advisor position, and launched an effort to bring the station back on the air. In the summer of 1992 a new tower was erected at a better rooftop spot than before at a cost of over $10,000, and faculty and student members together cleaned and renovated the shack, and the old transceiver equipment was replaced. We also pulled in Ethernet cabling for Internet, and got a computer (w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu). We are currently looking into holding a course in the Department of Electrical Engineering which will use the resources of the Amateur Radio club, and hope it will increase student participation. ========== SCHOOL: Oklahoma State University NAME: W5YJ ADDRESS: 322 Engineering North, Stillwater, OK 74075. CLUB OFFICERS Trustee Dr. Ken Case REPEATERS: 146.175 - split no tones CLUB STATION: W5YJ ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: 1920s NUMBER OF MEMBERS: BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: HISTORY We have logs going back to 1934 with comment on contacts made in 1925 and we have talked with hams that remember us from the 20's. About this time WxYJ and YI were all college radio clubs. =========== SCHOOL: University of Pennsylvania NAME: University of Pennsylvania ARC N3KZ ADDRESS: CLUB OFFICERS President: Matt Gomez, AA3FQ mgomez@mail.sas.upenn.edu Vice President: Eric Reiter, WI2N ericj@eniac.seas.upenn.edu Technical Director: Jeff DePolo, WN3A depolo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu REPEATERS: see below CLUB STATION: Station 1 - Philadelphia (main campus) -------------------------------------- Kenwood TS-940S, Alpha 76A, Icom 275H, Icom 375A, Icom 471A, PK-232, 80286,Azden PCS4000, power supplies, headsets, mics, Vibroplex iambic, keyer,KLM KT-34A @100', Cushcraft R5 @ 60', 40m dipole @ 60', KLM 2m/440 OSCAR,yagis, Diamond X200 @ 100', various other VHF and UHF antennas, one tower on roof - top of tower is at 100', and all of the usual accessories. Station is in the engineering building on the 2nd floor. It's been in the same room since 1924. Station 2 - Valley Forge ------------------------ Kenwood TS-530SP (soon to upgrade to TS-850), Dentron Clipperton-L linear,Kenwood TM-742A 2/440/6m, Icom 271H, 80286, Telrex 5-el tribander @ 40',3-element 40m monobander @ 70', Mosley TS-33 @ 40', 40m dipole @ 40',75m dipole @ 45', Diamond U2000, long-boom VHF/UHF yagis, Hustler 2m G6,other VHF and UHF antennas, 5 towers total. This station is on top of Mt. Misery at the U of P Microwave Research Center. We go out to this station on weekends, for field day, etc. It used to be a Nike Missle tracking station back in the cold war days and now Penn uses it as a research center. Great location - the highest point in the Philadelphia area. Linked UHF Repeater System -------------------------- Main site: Mt. Misery, Valley Forge, PA. 443.8+, 750'ASL, 2.6kW ERP Phil site: Penncampus on top of high rise, 440' ASL, receive-only Eagles Peak: Lebanon county, PA 442.400+, 1420' ASL, 800 watts ERP 6m remote: Mt. Misery, Valley Forge, PA 52.525 700' ASL, 200 W ERP Addtional sites will be going up this spring/summer. Co-sponsored repeaters ---------------------- These two repeaters are on Penn's campus on High Rise North. We co- sponsor the repeaters with the clubs listed: 146.685- Holmesburg ARC 440' ASL, 800 watts ERP, two remote receivers 442.700+ NEAR-FAR ARC 440' ASL, 700 watts ERP ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: NUMBER OF MEMBERS: Total members: about 65. Active members: about 20. Really active members: about 10. BANDS ACTIVE: most E-MAIL ADDRESSES: HISTORY The club was founded around 1921 from what we can tell. The first call sign that the club had was 3KZ. When they switched to the W calls, we were W3ABT. In the 70's, when you could request a call, we got N3KZ to get the old 3KZ back. ======== SCHOOL: Purdue University NAME: W9YB - Purdue Amateur Radio Club (PARC) ADDRESS: Purdue Amateur Radio Club Purdue Memorial Union, Box 507 West Lafayette, IN 47907 CLUB OFFICERS: Dave Bunte, K9FN, Staff Advisor David Moffet, N9SBZ, President Travis Bailey, N9OXF, Treasurer-Secretary REPEATERS: 146.76(-) and 444.5(+), located on top of the 15 floor Hawkins Graduate Residence Hall on the Purdue Campus. CLUB STATION: Located in the West Tower of the Purdue Memorial Union Building. Drake B transmitter-receiver pair, and there is a Ten-Tec Omni-V on order. 10, 15, and 20 meter monoband beams on top of the Union Building. Kenwood 2 meter all-mode transceiver. MFJ 1274B and adm-5 terminal. 2 meter vertical and horizontal beams. Old homebrew 146.76/.16 repeater, to be replaced very soon with new Motorola unit, along with new 444.5/449.5 repeater. Two packet radio bbs's are on loan (sort of) to the club. w9yb.ecn.purdue.edu (128.46.140.168) is runing JNOS, and provides access to the second bbs on 145.05 (the LAN freq). The second bbs is running f6fbb, and forwards to N5AAA in Noblesville, IN on 223.66 Mhz. Don't mail to w9yb.ecn.purdue.edu, over the internet use either w9yb@en.purdue.edu, or w9yb@w9yb.in.usa over the AMPRnet. STATION TELE#: 317-494-2715 ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: Radio communication research was started a Purdue in 1909 or 1910. (Source: Indiana News, 1920) In 1919 the callsign 9YB was assigned to the Purdue station. NUMBER OF MEMBERS: approx. 20 active members BANDS ACTIVE: 80, 40, 20, 15, 10, 6, 2 meters, and 440 mHz E-MAIL ADDRESSES: President - dpm@cs.purdue.edu Treasurer - thekid@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Club Account - w9yb@en.ecn.purdue.edu HISTORY: Read the book, "A Century of Progress: The History of Electrical Engineering at Purdue (1888-1988)" ======== SCHOOL: Rensselaer Polytechnic Insitute NAME: W2SZ Amateur Radio Club ADDRESS: W2SZ Amateur Radio ClubW2SZ Amateur Radio Club 6 Sunset TerraceBox 38, RPI Union Troy, New York, 12180 Troy, New York, 12180-3515 (518) 276-6578 CLUB OFFICERS President: Brett Mellor (N1LAG) BARH 416D, RPI Troy, New York, 12180 (518)276-7932 mellob@rpi.edu brett@lancedude.stu.rpi.edu REPEATERS: 144.820 (-600khz) 224.420 (-1.6Mhz) 443.000 (+5Mhz) The 144 and 220 machines are cross linked. Autopatch is offered to members. CLUB STATION: ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 31 BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: W2SZ sports its own Usenet Newsgroup. It's rpi.union.ham-radio. Some off campus systems may not be able get it. HISTORY W2SZ was originally created as 2SZ by the Troy YMCA around 1910. It was turned over to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1917 where it has been providing services to its members and the community ever since. The station provides Amateurs with an opportunity to keep in contact with friends at home as well as providing for the learning of radio and basic electronics. The station also provides a friendly and relaxed atmosphere where members can come to get away from the stress of classes and work. W2SZ, known to members are Zed, is a friendly group of people that are willing to share their knowledge and help those who have an interest in ham radio to get, or advance, their license. In addition they are willing to share their knowledge in the proper maintenance and operation of both club and personal equipment. The club currently consists of about 30 members and is located at Six Sunset Terrace, Troy, NY. It also has contact with many of the past members who have long since graduated from RPI, or community members who live in the Troy area. It provides the members with many contacts, and also provides the community with a viable method of communication through the repeaters that the club has. In addition to day to day communications, W2SZ also offers lines of communication during periods of crisis. Examples of the Club's community involvement were during the San Francisco earthquake, and during Operation Desert Storm. ======= SCHOOL: University of Rhode Island NAME: ADDRESS: University of Rhode Island Amateur Radio Club Taft Experimental Laboratory Kingston, RI 02881 CLUB OFFICERS: REPEATERS: none CLUB STATION: W1KMV STATION TELE#: (401)792-4577 ORGANIZATIONS: ARRL affiliated since 1965 YEAR STARTED: 1936 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: Packet W1KMV @ KA1AZ.#SORI.RI.USA.NOAM HISTORY: Formed at some time around 1930, but known to be in operation by 1936 as the "Radio Club," encompassing both amateur and broadcast interests. (The University of Rhode Island was previously known as the Rhode Island State College until the 1950s.) Members played an active role in the founding of one of the original eleven college broadcast radio stations, now WRIU-FM. Civil defense commitments have included operations during the Great Hurricane of 1938 and Hurricane Carol of 1954, in addition to numerous other situations. At various times, the club has done work in earth-moon-earth, satellite, microwave, and similarly exotic modes. URI ARC was among the first stations in New England to use packet radio. Located for many years in Lippitt Hall, the club station was relocated to the top floor of the Taft Experimental Laboratory in 1986. Taft antedates the university itself by several years, having been built in 1889 to house the old agricultural experiment station which previously occupied the site of the Kingston Campus. The W1KMV club station license was allowed to lapse, but was renewed by special FCC permission in 1982. Trustees for W1KMV since the renewal have included Wilson Lamb, K4OGP (now N5LFB?), and Prof. Ralph England, WA1YDR. ====== SCHOOL: Rose-Hulman NAME: Rose Tech Radio Club ADDRESS: Rose Tech Radio club 5500 Wabash Avenue Terre Haute, IN 47803 CLUB OFFICERS President:pettitda@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu Operations manager: leymp@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu REPEATERS: none, ATV repeater in the works CLUB STATION: W9NAA ORGANIZATIONS: Affiliated 61 years with the ARRL YEAR STARTED: 1933 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: 14 and counting... BANDS ACTIVE: most E-MAIL ADDRESSES: none HISTORY Herman Moench started our station in 1933 ========= SCHOOL: Rutgers University Ham Radio Club CLUB STATION: WA2NPP email: radio@rutgers.edumailing list which goes to officers, advisor, and trustee Officers: President:Tim Hayesthayes@noc.rutgers.edu ====== SCHOOL: Southeastern Lousiana University NAME: ADDRESS: CLUB OFFICERS K5CAV (President/Fac Adv); WB5FBS (Fac Adv) REPEATERS: no CLUB STATION: WD5FIG Heath & Collins HF gear; triband beam; 2-meter xcvr & 5/8 wave antenna ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: NUMBER OF MEMBERS: varies, this semester 3 BANDS ACTIVE: 80, 40, 20, 15, 10M E-MAIL ADDRESSES: email address of officers : fmus1184@selu.edu HISTORY formed in '70's by staff members & students ======== SCHOOL: Washington University NAME: Washington University Amateur Radio Club ADDRESS: Campus Box 1127 St. Louis, Missouri 63130 CLUB OFFICERS President: Tefford Reed (N0WYE) twr2@cec.wustl.edu REPEATERS: 2m repeater on 147.285 CLUB STATION: Presently we have a decent station with Drake HF gear, a Heath 2KW linear, driving a 7el beam up about 30ft above rooftop. Also an all mode Icom on 2m. A 2m repeater on 147.285 recently moved to the top of a 12 story dorm which now gives ts decent coverage of the st. louis and adjacent Ill. areas. There is talk of getting active on packet radio with a TCP/IP gateway to the internet. Also some experimentation with 10GHz microwave. ORGANIZATIONS: ARRL YEAR STARTED: at least 1947 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: around 20 BANDS ACTIVE: E-MAIL ADDRESSES: planed HISTORY We have a club call W0QEV that has been ours at least since 1947 which is the oldest log that we can find. The league claims that we have been affiliated with them since 1949 which makes us one of the older if not oldest club station in the zero call region. This far back though and nobody really knows. Someday we will have to search though old call books from just after the war to see just when that call appears. The club started as part of the department of electrical engineering here. It became a student union organization around a decade ago and as a result has a steady source of funds. As far as membership, if only that was as steady as funding. The club has students, graduate students, professors, university staff and even alumni. Probably around 20 members but only half that many are easy to get a hold of. There are always to few undergrads! An addendum to the above. After the war st. louis became part of the zero district as opposed to the old nine district. We have reason to believe that the club was around even before the war, but don't know under which call or how we can research this. The ARRL doesn't know and the fcc doesn't even bother with this type of stuff. ====== SCHOOL: University of Waterloo NAME: VE3UOW ADDRESS: CLUB OFFICERS President: Craig Lemon VE3XCL calemon@sunee.UWaterloo.CA Staff Advisor: Roger Sanderson VE3RKS rsanders@sunee.UWaterloo.CA REPEATERS: VE3WWW CLUB STATION: VE3UOW HF, UHF, Packet TCP/IP BBS VE3UOW ORGANIZATIONS: YEAR STARTED: 1956 NUMBER OF MEMBERS: about 5 to 15 depending on the term and year BANDS ACTIVE: Mostly 2 metres E-MAIL ADDRESSES: uwarc-l@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (LISTSERVER) HISTORY Oldest club on campus, has been in existance since about 1956. ========== !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The following are clubs which I have been told exist but the submitters has no furthur information about. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ======= University of California Amateur Radio Club (WB6KGN) ======== East Tennesee State University. ========= Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. W9UIH. ========= SCHOOL: University of Rochester ADDRESS: Rochester, New York CLUB STATION: K2ZWI ======= SCHOOL: Carnegie Mellon CLUB STATION: W3VC Officers: President:Thomas.Stricker@SKYLARK.WARP.CS.CMU.EDU ========== SCHOOL: Arizona State University CLUB STATION: W7TJV ============ SCHOOL: University of Maryland NAME: University of Maryland ARA W3EAX CLUB STATION: W3EAX Email: World Wide Web URL http:\\w3eax.umd.edu\w3eax.html ========== SCHOOL: New Mexico State University CLUB STATION: W5GB ======= SCHOOL: Drexel University in Philadelphia CLUB STATION: W3MGF. Members: About 15 active members ====== SCHOOL: University of Central Florida Radio Club ========= SCHOOL: University of Warwick ARS ADDRESS: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK CLUB STATION: G1UOW ========= SCHOOL: Taylor University ARC ADDRESS: Upland, Indiana ========= SCHOOL: University of Manitoba NAME: University of Manitoba Amateur Radio Society ======== SCHOOL: University of Akron NAME: University of Akron ARC - W8UPD CLUB STATION: W8UPD ====== SCHOOL: University of Hawaii ======= SCHOOL: Michigan State University NAME: Michigan State University ARC CLUB STATION: W8SH ======== SCHOOL: Columbia University NAME: Columbia University ARC W2AEE EMAIL: See http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/ ======== SCHOOL: Techn. Univ. of Ilmenau. ADDRESS: Ilmenau, Germany EMAIL: http://www.systemtechnik.tu-ilmenau.de/hamlocal.html ======= SCHOOL: Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI ADDRESS: Worcester, MA CLUB STATION: W1YK HISTORY: The gentleman that oversees operation is Bob Taylor, NA1Q. He is a lab instructor at the school. ====== Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (W8EDU) Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (W8UM) Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY (WA2SDY, I think). There are others in this neighborhood (Georgetown Univ., American Univ., George Washington Univ., Catholic Univ., Howard Univ., that!may have calls -- active or otherwise...) ====== ((end of University and School Amateur Radio Club list 04/03/94)) Special thanks to... Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU Matt Trail Bob Tidd KJ6CS Dave WO9M Geoff Gaebel KB9DUX Gordon Couger H. Peter!Anvin N9ITP Jeff Depolo John Schmidt KD4EAI Keith Poole K7MOA/3 Todd Wheeler N0NUM Roger K. Sanderson P.Eng. Tefford W Reed Michael 'Target' Whaley Brett Mellor (N1LAG) ROBERT G. PRIEZ Peter Laws Matthew A Gomez and many, many others