🚀 go-pugleaf

One other thing ... looking up W4AHY on the FCC callsign lookup database
shows it is not currently issued.  I know that the Duke club station had
this call since at least the 1930's.  Perhaps you guys could petition to
get in back!  Good luck.

John wrote:
> 
> I graduated from Duke in 1975 and used to operate the Duke ham radio
> club station in the Engineering Building.  It was licensed as W4AHY, as
> I recall.  They had an old (for even back then) Aerotron "lunch box"
> transceiver tuned up on the Hillsborough repeater frequency
> 146.22/146.82.  There was also a set of Drake (or was it
> Hallicrafters??) HF twins feeding a home brew cubical quad on a rotator
> located out the station window on the roof of the building.  I enjoyed
> operating the station, but the club really wasn't a club back then ...
> there was a station trustee and a president who showed me how to get the
> key to the station.  No meetings or anything.  Good luck in your
> efforts.
> 
> 73
> John KE4ML
> 
> Lenore Ramm wrote:
> >
> > Earlier this year, many people expressed an interest in starting an amateur
> > radio club at Duke.  We do hope that many students will be involved in this
> > organization, but in order to get things rolling, we will be having our first
> > meeting this Thursday, January 8th.  This is before most students will be
> > returning to campus.  It will be held at 5pm in room 106 in section D of the
> > Levine Science Research Center.
> >
> > Talk-in will be on 145.450 and the new Duke repeater: 147.590 and a negative
> > offset of 1 Mhz to 146.590 with a PL tone of 67.0.
> >
> > Please send mail to me, lenore@cs.duke.edu, if you plan to attend, would
> > like to attend, but cannot, or if you have no interest in participating now
> > or in the future.
> >
> > Also, please pass this on to any other Duke hams or potential hams who might
> > be interested.
> >
> > Thanks, and my apologies for the short notice!
> >
> > 73
> >
> > Lenore
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
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