Harvard Wireless Club > Alumni/ae Forum

Over the years, many alumni/ae friends have kept in touch with the Harvard Wireless Club through letters, e-mails and personal visits.

If you are an alumnus/a of Harvard Wireless Club, this is your forum to aire recollections, opinions, and questions.

A. Morris Hughes, '26, W1MU (SK)	QRMing the Navy Yard; the night the wood stove was S-9+
Guy Black, '41, W4PSJ (SK)	Basement "rumors"; Institute of Geographical Exploration communication course; ionospheric sounding experiments from the Jefferson Labs
John P. Phipps, '51, K7TBA	Nice to see bits and pieces of the shack at 52 Dunster
Bill Hampton, '52, ex-W9SWQ	Reactiving the station at 52 Dunster, Canadian Ale, 10-meter Worked All States, "turning off the lights" in Cambridge!
Howard McElroy, A.B.'55, W2WSL	"Used spare study time to upgrade to extra..."
Joe Frank, '56, W1SOV	Not an active HWC member, too preoccupied with intercollegiate debate. But "never lost my interest in amateur radio."
Katashi Nose, GSE '61, KH6IJ (SK)	An early HWC Field Day, served Japanese-style
A. LaMont (Monty) Shultes, '60, K2DLJ	Delighted to see such an active group! Have contacted W1AF a few times during contests.
Paul Ryack, '63, MPH'74, W1PR, ex-W1ETH	...Spent many happy hours chasing DX on 10 AM ("tuning 28.5 down")
Ray Soifer, HBS '65, W2RS	Collins KWM-1 and an HRO-500; homebrewing at Dunster street "lab"
Stuart Zeiger, '72, KB1QW	Club equipment stolen; working student nets during the Kent State and Cambodia protests; 40/80 antennas installed
Fred Hopengarten, MBA'72, K1VR	Antenna inventory; dangerous tower work!; "A pretty good college station for those days"
Larry Wechsler, M.D., '75, W3OD	Membership built up to twelve; first-class signal with Collins S-line, NCL-2000 amplifer
David Gilmour, A.B.'80, S.M. '82, MBA '84, WQ1K	Bootleg antenna at the Malkin Athletic Center
Gregory Quenell, '85, WA2BWO	Traffic handling era; hundreds of radiograms with a merchant marine ship; color SSTV via the Atari 800
Mike Manafo, GSE '88, '98, K3UOC	Moldy HWC paraphernalia rescued from the basement of Lowell Lecture Hall; temporary quarters in a Dunster House dorm room; the rebirth at 6 Linden Street
Jim Walsh, MPA '91, K4JIM	"Congratulations to the club on its 90th anniversary!"
Ken Dueker, J.D., '97, KB6BPM	Ken produced the first HWC web site, one of the first radio club sites on the web