W5AC continues A&M's amateur radio tradition | Life & Arts
A&Mâs amateur radio club, called W5AC, is an example of this. The club was involved with the 1921 play-by-play broadcast of an A&M-University of Texas football game â the first of its kind by an amateur radio station. However, a commercial station in Pittsburgh beat it out to be the first in the nation. But the clubâs history runs deeper than that. Founded in 1912 in Bolton Hall, W5AC is the oldest college radio club that is currently operating under its original call sign, though there is some debate surrounding that fact. Harvard claims its radio club, W1AF, was founded in 19...
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