ARRL page about old college radio clubs.

[KE1GF]

Nice little ARRL page about old college radio clubs, which I obtained from the 1YK WPI Wireless reflector.

http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2005/04/01/2/?nc=1

A follow-up article can be found here:

http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2005/04/08/1/?nc=1

Hrmn, the EE building that I'm in now says "Atwater Kent" on the outside, who was he?

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Somewhere along the way I read that the Harvard Wireless Society/Club/Whatever was where the term 'ham' originated. Wish I could remember the source. It's also been attributed to old RR telegraph ops, sloppy senders being called ham-fisted. One thing for sure is that colleges and schools were some of the earliest stations on the air, which gives the term 'college radio' a whole new meaning.

There's some really interesting stuff out there from a historical perspective. Nice to see more of it appearing online. Young buzzards-to-be wearing suits and smoking pipes with open wire line running along the wall or ceiling to a buzzardly transmitter.  Real radio, at its best.

~ Todd, KA1KAQ

[W1EUJ]

Our website doesn't mention it, but the Northeastern Wireless Club (nee Radio Club) began in 1922 when the school was still in the Boston YMCA. Not having any records from the era, we have no idea hat they did back then..Not til the mid 1930's was it licenced as W1KBN