Harvard Wireless Club Bulletin April 9, 1999

So, according to the W1MX web site, they state:

"Formerly 1XM, we're America's oldest college amateur station, established in 1909."

And yet another undocumented claim by our youthful neighbor. According to page 6 in "The WPI Wireless Association: Its Origin and Growth, 1909-1932," David M. Mangini, (unpublished dissertation, WPI, 1978):

"Radio clubs were still a new thing when WPI established their wireless group. Public clubs were still few in number and centered mainly around the larger cities. The first of the college wireless club is reputed to be the Harvard Wireless Club in Cambridge, Mass. The next club thought to be founded at a college is the MIT Wireless Society from which WPI got its encouragement."

Then back in the late fall of 1989, Gene Simon, W2KOY (SK) had a conversation with Bob Taylor, NA1Q, Historian of the WPI Wireless Association. In a letter from Gene to Gunnar Trumbull, KC1SW, former President of the HWC, Gene states:

"Non disputandem est. . . They [Taylor as his associates] think MIT was the second college RC and they (WPI) are third."

Thank you Gene. Non disputandem est!