[K4RY] More history for AUARC

[Cheryl Whitlock]

Dr. Henry P. Orr was professor in Horticulture. My late husband had him for
several courses at AU.
On Oct 18, 2014 8:40 PM, "John Klingelhoeffer" <wb4lnm at aol.com> wrote:

> 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.
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>  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.
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>  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).
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  73
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>  John...
> WB4LNM
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