[K4RY] More history for AUARC

[John Klingelhoeffer]

I just found my notes with this information, so I thought I would capture it for posterity and the rest of the Club for future use.


In April, 2014, I was at a small hamfest and met a fellow who was a ham at Auburn in the early 1950's.  His name is Ed Ringer from Valley Head, AL, and his callsign now is W4DGH.  


Ed said when he was there, AUARC was in the old Broun Hall, which at that time was on Magnolia across from where Anders Book store is and now where Harbert Center is.  (Note: AUARC was still in the old Broun Hall when I went there 1971-1975).  


Ed said the callsign for AUARC at that point was " W4UJJ ", and the equipment was a war surplus BC-610 transmitter and BC-312 receiver.  Dean Orr was the station trustee at the time.  I'm not sure which Dean Orr that was, because there seems to be two around Auburn at that time, one in architecture and one in horticulture.  


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That's all for that tidbit.  Somewhere around the house here I have a folder with some notes of research I'd done in RBD library's basement about 4 years ago.  I went through all of the Glomerata's from 1912 to 1971 to see what it mentioned about AUARC.  Sometimes there was quite a bit, and more often there was nothing.  There were a couple of callsigns (I don't remember the one above).  I will pass those along when I find the folder.  We do have documentation for API's callsign back around 1914 and again in the early 1920's from copies of government documents online.  


I also went through issues of the Blue and Orange, the Plainsman newspaper predecessor, to find the original article about the radio station contributed by an engineer who worked with Thomas Edison and its antenna (not one I think is correct, by the way).  Anyhow, amateur radio has easily been on campus for at least 100 years.  This pretty much ties Harvard and Texas A&M for the oldest university radio clubs.  


73


John...
WB4LNM






  




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