I would have replied earlier, but I am trying to kick some memory cells off of "Standby". Also I wanted to review what others had contributed to see if I could offer additional info. Here's what I have come up with.

First is that 1948 Violet picture. That young kid on Professor Greenstein's left, is me. I also recognize that equally young gentleman in upper left hand of the picture, as Paul Chirlian. Some of your readers and contributors might know him better as Professor Chirlian and may have been in some of his EE classes.

The 1947 entry under Station Equipment is not quite correct in that it was not surplus but rather the property of the US Army. It was on loan from the Signal Corps ROTC unit at the Heights. It was an SCR 399, a complete radio station, housed in a HO-17 Shelter. An SCR 399 is normally carried in a 6x6 2 1/2 ton truck but can be unloaded for fixed station use. The whole dismounted shelter, a complete station, was made available to the Radio Club for their use.

As a Freshman, and not licenced yet, I was a frequent visitor to the HO-17 "shack" before the move to McCracken. I don't think the W2DSC licence had come through yet since most of the ham operators were using their own calls and operating mobile. Maybe they wanted the guy at the other end to recognize their call letters. In any case, operation was limited to 20 meters and longer by the BC-342 receivers (18MHz). That meant only Class A and CW could be used.

A few notes on the equipment. The 2 receivers were BC-342s not BC-348s. According to the Internet, the BC-348 was designed for aircraft use (400 Hz / 28Vdc). The BC-610 appeared to be an early model. The transmitter looked more like a Hallicrafters HT-4 than the later BC-610 militarized versions. Our SCR-399 also had a teletype machine. One of the ROTC sergeants used it frequently. I don't know if he was on the MARS or a military network.

When space was available in McCracken, the whole thing was moved. It then became an SCR-499, the fixed station version. This is what we all remember. Shortly thereafter, the Collins75A-1 was purchased and 10 Meter operation was now possible.The band was hot (late 1940's) because of sunspot activity.  I had just gotten my licence, W2UGN so I could operate on 10 meters. I remember cranking the BC-610 up for the first time. Literally cranking because of the crank operated antenna tuner and whip antenna. The 3 element rotary 10 meter beam followed shortly.

In 1950, when the Collins Autotune was installed, the BC-610 and all other stuff was returned to the Signal Corps.
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Upon graduation, I not only received a BEE Diploma, but also a Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Signal Corps Reserve. Then came Korea. Within a year after graduation I got a notice to report for active duty. I was sent for a 90 day refresher course at Fort Monmouth, NJ. I did so well there, that they asked that I be assigned to teach at the newly established Signal Corps Officer Training School, also at Fort Monmouth.

Rough duty! I was able to get home on most weekends. Because of this, I never took any leave. I got 2 months of accrued pay when I was discharged. That was the down payment on my first home. However, after being in the Army, getting a new home and wife, I let my Call, W2UGN expire.

I was going to take off a month before even thinking about a post discharge job. No way! My mother let it me known through her bridge club that her Engineer son was lazing around the house. Two weeks later I was working for Pitney Bowes, where I stayed until early retirement, 33 years later!

Pitney Bowes, a manufacturer and supplier of Postage Meters and other mail handling equipment, was 100% mechanical. I was the only practicing EE. Being the only fish in a small pond has some problems but many opportunities, particularly if that pond will soon become a lake because of technology. The down side was that I had no mentor. The up side was that I, along with some recent hires, had to figure out how to do things on our own. Ignorance is the Mother of Invention. I had over 70 Patents by the time I took early retirement. They rehired me for 5 additional years as a consultant, where I picked up a few more.

In 1991, I retired permanently at age 62 when I became eligible for Social Security. Pitney Bowes was paying me a SS offset as part of my early retirement package which would end at age 62. Faced with a pay cut, I sold our 4 bedroom house in Norwak, CT where we had raised our four children and moved to our summer home on Squantz Pond in Connecticut. Some of your members may have visited the State Park there since it has many Bronx visitors.      Now, as long as it doesn't snow....      [10-6-07]

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[Ref "Where was W2DSA located on campus?"]  Your reply to my question about W2DSA's location, triggered a long forgotten recollection.   On my first day at NYU, during orientation in the Chapel, I sat next to an equally confused and scared Freshman. Since we knew no others on the campus, and had some classes together, we became friends. He was at NYU because they had opened a new meteorology department.

The Meteorology Department had their instruments on the top of the Chemistry Building, which I think was Nichols. He had the key to the roof and invited me up there one day while he checked out some instruments. While he was doing this, I noticed a rusted pole with a broken wire attached to an antenna insulator. I was surprised to find what was obviously a shortwave antenna on the top of the Chemistry building. Figuring it was just a receiving antenna, I was surprised by the size of the insulator. Another rusted steel pole was on another corner.

This was probably the remains of W2DSA's old antenna. Being that high and long with a steel beam ground plane under it, I bet it performed very well.

I hope this recollection will trigger some fond memories in some of the old timers  before my time that made W2DSC possible.   [10-18-07]

Sid Schwartz '52E, W3GQB (ex-W2HDZ)

I recently began to reflect on my days at the Heights after seeing the Hall of Fame collonade in one of the scenes in A BEAUTIFUL MIND. After surfing around I discovered the NEW W2DSC, thanks to your initiative. 

I was in the EE class of 1952; it doesn't seem like 50 years, but that's what they told me in the invitation to attend this years graduation. Just before I graduated, I got my first call, W2HDZ. Later it was K9UGF, and since about 1968, W3GQB in Silver Spring, MD.  I haven't been very active. A little bit of two meter mobile now and then. 

I started thinking about the guys who were in the club when I was there and pretty quickly I was able to come up with the following list. The calls are all current ones.

Roy Udolf W2OLC   (silent key, 2007)
Bob Avrutik N1RA
Alton Eckert 
Steve Lipsky W2VVN   (silent key, 2007)
Steve Leibholz was W2ZDE (listed as Trustee in 1951 Callbook)
Herb Sinofsky W2GKS
Paul Chirlian (became an EE instructor)
Stan Dickstein
Dave Freedman W2VLX

The station in the 50's was in the basement of McCracken hall overlooking the Harlem River. We had a 3 element rotary beam on the rooftop poop deck. One of the interesting pieces of gear was a very early Collins Autotune transmitter. It was custom built for Mr. Leeds of Leeds and Northrup and used on his yacht , the MOANA. There was a picture of it on one of the inside covers of a 1936 QST. I wonder what happened to this one; it would certainly make a nice museum piece for the Collins enthusiasts. 

One of the activities I remember were the Friday afternoon College Net sessions on 75. We had real good participation from about ten schools, largely in the northeast. 

Hope all this adds to your collection of history of the two dirty street cleaners.      [2-22-02]

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 I have done some web research and discovered that the Yacht Moana and it's owner William B. Leeds had no connection with the Leeds and Northrup company. The history of the boat is documented on the web. Leeds acquired it in 1938 and sold/gave it to the US Navy in 1941. They commissioned it as the AGP-2, a torpedo tender. It was scrapped in the early '50's. So, I would now conjecture that the NYU EE dept. probably got the rig as part of a shipment of war surplus. 

I enjoyed Al Eckert's note. We overlapped at the Heights for one or two years. Al gave a pretty good inventory of the equipment we had. Prior to the purchase of the 75A-1, we front ended the 342's with a Gonset 10 meter converter. I believe that we may have modified one of the tank coils in the BC-610 so we could use it on 10 meters, but I don't remember the details. A three element rotating beam was installed on the roof of McCracken.

The 610 was used on 10 and 20, while the 202 was set up for 75 and 80.   I also recall some of the members  building a kit transmitter for SSB. I think it was made by Eldico.           [10-7-07]

Dave Freedman '52E, W2VLX

I was an engineering student at NYU in the early 50's. We were located at University Heights. I don't remember W2DSC, however, I was one of the directors (chief engineer) of the AM carrier current broadcast station. We used the power lines as the antenna element which had limited range but covered the Heights Campus. We had direct telephone lines to Madison Square Garden from which we broadcast the NYU basketball games. Needless to say, I was not a sports broadcaster.

Yes, Sid and I were good friends. We both graduated in the same class and both started working at the same time for RCA in Camden, NJ. I don't remember when Sid left to take a job in the Washington area, but it was some time ago. I spent my entire career with RCA in their Moorestown Plant (missile and surface radar) until GE bought RCA at which time I retired at 60. They hired me back the same year as a consultant. I did that for 12 years even as they went through two mergers: Martin Marietta and then Lockheed Martin, and then finally quit as every one who hired me either died or retired.             [9-3-05]

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 Yes, even with my terrible memory, I certainly remember Steve Leibholz. I can still picture the two of us walking up 181st(?) street toward the NYU campus and guessing correctly his middle name, initial "W" pronounced "v".

Interestingly, I have made friends with another of our graduating class whom I did not know while at NYU as he was in the Arts school, Bruno Zarkower, also a ham  [N1CDE].

I am still moderately active in ham radio and can be found on the Meeshpacha net in the mornings at 7:30 AM on 14.326 MHz.   [10-24-07]

Steve Leibholz '52A, ex-W2ZDE    

I was for some time the trustee of W2DSC and put together with some other folks the rigs, including some war surplus and Collins maritime equipment. W2DSC was also operated as a MARS station, handling traffic for GIs. One of our mafia was Steve Lipsky, W2VVN, an IEEE Fellow and pioneer in RF direction finding, recently deceased . My only notoriety was being the only non-Engineer in the club.

We also spawned and built WNYU, then a carrier-current AM broadcast station, now 89.1 FM, which broadcast the basketball games from the radio booth in the old Garden, using our own students as announcers.

Regrettably I am no longer active in ham radio, being busy as a technocrat with 10 grandkids.

Actually I can still copy code, and even remember the pin connections of a 6L6.  It's like riding a bicycle. The problem is that I need two more days in every week. I don't recognize any of the names on the website, except vaguely Sid Schwartz. I did work with somebody (name escapes me) in the electronic design and  building of the first WNYU in the basement of McCracken Hall. See http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/175/pages/wnyu.htm               [10-22-07]

Stan Dickstein '53E, ex-W2VQA     

I am sending a brief e-mail to you just to make this connection; we can chat more after you reply. W2DSC goes back a long time.... I do not recall when the NYU club was first organized. Several years ago I did an Internet search on my name (through Yahoo! I believe). The response included some NYU club entries. Did you get my address from that (or Google), or from the Alumni Directory. More later.    [10-22-07]

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Another short (maybe) e-mail on the subject. I was active in the Radio Club, occasionally using the tunable US Army BC610 installed as part of our participation in ROTC and the Military Amateur Radio System (MARS). My own call was W2VQA. I discontinued that license in the early 1960s when I got a job that gave me the opportunity to design and test prototype RF measurement instruments based on a sweeping oscillator principle. Those tasks were my prime interest in Ham Radio in the first place.

Sidney (Sid) Schwartz had responded to a query similar to yours in the mid 1990s and included my name and several others of his recollection. That turned up in my earlier search. I don't know how far back Google keeps records but they do allow (delayed) access to some level of archived data.

My wife died back in May '02. She was increasingly debilitated for about a year before that and needed increasing care which I provided with help from home health aides and finally Hospice staff. When I retired from IBM in 1994 I realized that I was 20 years backlogged in yard work after 30 years in my present residence. Natalie's illness set me back about another year. That is why I prefer brief e-mails.

You might try a Google search on my name, or Sid Schwartz's, to rediscover his list of NYU Ham Radio Club members. I reach the internet on a dialup line so I try to do searches like that from the Town of LaGrange, NY, public library.  Bear with me in my delays....    [10-28-07]

Steve Aug '56A, W3DEF (ex-K2EOF)

I came across your note about the NYU Radio Club while looking through old familiar call letters on the QRZ site. I was a member of the club when I was at the Heights from 1952-56, when I graduated. In those days we had an old Collins 202BTA, which ran a full kilowatt input. The final was a pair of HF200s modulated by a pair of the same. This was an auto-tune rig, which meant you could set it up on 10 pretuned channels and select any of them by means of a telephone dial on the front of the transmitter. The dial activated an old step-by-step telephone switching system. The rig was a real TVI generator on any band!!

The rig came from the yacht Moana owned by William B. Leeds. I always wondered whether he was the Leeds of Leeds & Northrup, at one time a big aviation concern. Have you any idea whatever happened to that old rig, or any of the other old equipment up there? 

There was another transmitter that I don't ever recall putting on the air. It was a military surplus REL, or somesuch. And the first page of the operating manual started out with: "Obtain the services of four strong men." 

By the time I left, we were rarely using the old Collins, and had convinced the student council to give us enough money for a new B&W 5100. The receiver was a Collins 75A1 as long as I was there.

The only chap I've kept in contact with is Mervyn MacMedan, ex-W2JOA who lives in Arcadia, Calif., and works at Jet Propulsion Lab. Some of the other names I remember are Kern Bowyer, ex-W2GHH who later went to work for duPont and probably has retired. I believe he has a 3 call, but I haven't spoken with him since the '50s. Also Walter Schopfer, whose call I don't remember, but who lived, as I recall, in Mamaroneck. There was also a Dave Rosen, whose call I don't remember, but who sounded like a radio announcer.

Dick McClure '59E, ex-W1LBE

Elliott Lawrence, '60E, '61E, WA6TLA (ex-K2KIA)

Jim Neiger '62E,  N6TJ (ex-W7WJB)

Gosh, my memory really foggy back to those DSC days.  I even forget the name and call of the station leader then.  Our paths never crossed again.

My call in 1960 was W7WJB, originally from Salem, OR.  At NYU from fall of 60 to fall of 62, when I got my M.S.  On a Research Assistantship, lived the first year in the Bronx and Riverside, in Queens the 2nd. Spent the summer of ' 61 working for the US Army on the Greenland Icecap, where I signed KG1CC (Camp Century) and KG1BA, Camp Tuto - near Thule AFB.

After got my degree, took a job with Lockheed in SF Bay Area, until 1968.  Then I joined RCA on Ascension Island where I got my original (and still current ) ZD8Z call.  Have made about 75 trips to Ascension since started going back there in 1989.  In the meantime, have contested from quite a few places world wide, including 9Y4AA, 8P6J, VR1W, KB6DA, P4ØT, etc etc.  Well, Dan, you get the picture.  Wanderlust, I suppose.

What is your profession and what drove you to NYU?  I see where Dave K2GM is on your board.  I know Dave from contesting, I guess.

Yes, read the web, and it sure joggled my memories of New York.  Amazing city, to say the least.        [10-20-06]

Merv MacMedan (1955-63) '63E, N6NO (ex-W2JOA)

If you are still searching for memorabilia of the old NYU Radio Club, W2DSC, I found something that might be of interest while cleaning out my darkest archives. It is the original FCC license that I held as trustee for the club starting in 1955. As I recall, I was elected trustee back then because I was the only member with an Extra Class license, which would allow full operating privileges to guest operators who qualified.

In those days the license period was not renewed when you changed trustee, so it looks like I took over the trusteeship on the existing license in 1955 and then renewed it when it expired in 1957. Upon renewal it was not customary to re-issue the license as they do today, so a renewal card was issued in 1957 and both the original license and its renewal card had to be posted or carried by the operator. This renewal card shows validity to 1962, but I believe I turned over the trusteeship to someone else before its expiration. I don't think we ever had a trustee from the faculty because they were never hams. I am attaching a scanned JPG file of the license and renewal.  I also found a letter of commendation from New York City Civil Defense that the club received for handling traffic during an emergency exercise.

In the same archive I found an envelope with a key. The envelope is marked "Power Switch Key to W2DSC". I believe this was for the master power switch for the shack, in the basement of McCracken Hall. It's not a prime relic, but I'll send it to you if you want it for the W2DSC museum.  I also found a carbon copy of a 1956 letter written from then-President Steve Aug to newly-elected-President Paul Schnitzler, K2KOK, giving him very interesting guidance about how to lead the club. It's too long to e-mail, so I'll Xerox it and mail it to you. I did a name search for Paul on QRZ.COM but nothing showed up, so I assume he has either failed to renew his ham license or passed away.

I think the club was very vibrant in those days and one of the main reasons was that we had our own room for the club and its gear in the basement. We had plenty of trees and space for 80-meter full size dipoles overlooking the East River and no nearby neighbors to complain of TVI from our 1-KW AM Collins Autotune transmitter! It was a great station for apartment-bound hams to operate from. 

Your web page for the club-in-absentia is a good start. Hope you can continue to populate it with stuff, but is there really no student interest in reactivating the club on campus?

PS: Although I was a full time student when I started in the club, I eventually had to go to work to pay for my education, so I switched to night classes. Many of these were actually at the downtown campus instead of University Heights, causing me to fade from the club. Progress towards my degree was a lot slower this way, and I wound up graduating with the evening Engineering School class of 1963.       [7-5-04]

Ron Litt  '63E, 63A, ex-K2KMA

Wow! you found me.   Yes, I was a member of the NYU RC. I graduated with both an arts and engineeriing degree (EE) in 63.  I carried an active General Class license until 1966, when I let it lapse. I currently live in Houston, Texas. Today, my primary hobby is photography but that's a long story. Although someday, I would like to get licensed and get back on the air. 

I haven't thought about those days in a long time. I got my Novice license in 1954. I was still in Jr. High School. Got my General about 6 months later. I had earned WAC and WAS worked a lot of contests, especially Sweepstakes. My most memorable contact was with VR6TC on Pitcairn Island. The operator was Thomas Christian as in "This is mutiny Mr. Christian!"  He was a direct descendant. I thought that was so cool. Right out of history.

I spent a lot of time at McCracken Hall. Had my freshman English classes there with an instructor named Mr. Gill. I don't remember much that was memorable about the basement at McCracken. I had my first sexual encounter with a female (the Heights campus was all male in my freshman year but went co-ed in 1959) in the crow's nest atop McCracken but that had nothing to do with HAM radio.

Paul Moskowitz '66E, '68A, '71A,  WA2UNC

These days I still do what we now call wireless technology, RFID, but not amateur radio.  I was at one time the vice-president and then president of the amateur radio club at the Heights.  I graduated from the School of Engineering in 1966, but I stayed at the Heights until I got a Ph.D. in physics in 1971,  I think that I was president of the club in 1966, but I am not sure.  Before me, Martin Hellman was the club president.  Marty is best known for Diffie-Hellman cryptography,

I will have to write a long letter some time, but for now you can just add my personal home page URL: http://www.geocities.com/spinorbit10598/           [10-18-06]

Rick Lehrbaum '68E, NS6A (ex-WA2APT)

Hi Dan. My goodness, it's been a long time! I certainly have fond memories of my W2DSC days, and am honored to be an honorary member of the club. I'll need to reflect a bit on those "good old days" days in order to dredge up memories of what we had in the shack. Yes, a SWAN 350 definitely. What else, though? Hmmm...

I recall two interesting happenings, btw...

(1) We won a Sweepstakes, CW section, one year. Probably for our section. I might have something in my files on that.

(2) We were instrumental in getting some medicine for a sick person in South America. I recall a headline on the front page of the Heights Daily News:

   "Heights Ham Lehrbaum Hero: Helps to Save Woman's Life"

I think I actually still have a copy of the page and can make a photocopy of it if you're interested. Probably could scan it and email it to you.

Don't get on the air much lately; been too busy with my website. Still have a couple of rigs but don't use 'em much. some kind of tri-band handy talkie; and a TenTec Argonaut QRP rig which I use to work DX on 20 CW with an inverted vee. current call is ns6a.      [11-20-00]
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Martin Horowitz '68E '70E, N4FA

Although I was never a member of the club while I attended school at University Heights, I am interested in becoming an associate. My good friend, N1RA, sent me the e-mail you sent out. I never realized we had a station at the Heights campus. Please let me know what info you need.     [9-8-05]

Don DiGalbo '69E  (ex-WN2WZD) 

(Note: Don supplied the museum's 1971 Field Day QSL card, which he found on eBay.)

Attached is a jpg scan of the front and back of the card. Hope this is sufficient.  The reason I acquired the card was 1) I collect NYU memorabilia from the University Heights campus (which I attended) and 2) I was a member of the NYU Amateur Radio Club in the late 1960's. At that time the club used the basement of McCracken Hall I believe. There was about 5 of us if I remember correctly. The only trouble we had was our equipment kept getting stolen! We must have purchased 3 or 4 sets of equipment and after the last time we all gave up. I always had a feeling it was an inside job but who knows? Anyway, when we did have equipment we would enter contests. I had my novice license at that time (WN2WZD) but never had the time to advance. My brother is still very active in amateur radio. We grew up in New Jersey but he now lives in Maryland and I live in Los Angeles.

Sorry to bend your ear but it brought back some good memories! If you need anything further please don't hesitate to email me.   [10-16-06]

Paul Hunter '71E, WB2YDC

It certainly has been quite a few years.  When my wife opened the mail she asked me if I was ever a member of the NYU ARC.  I dated her back then and she knew I had a flair for antenna design but the subject of radio didn't come up relative to NYU a whole lot.  I did take her on a tour of MacCracken Hall once and always thought that the tower room would have been a great location for the station.

Radio guided my career to telecommunications and my last assignment before retiring from Bell Atlantic (now known as Verizon) was the Technical Director of Operations for Florida.  We had over seven hundred towers providing digital services across the state.

I have kept my license current but have not been all that active since I was living in the Washington D.C area between 1991 and 1995.  I have helped out locally with 2 meter FM emergency communications in support of hurricane activity.  I still have hopes of another HF rig someday but haven't yet found the time.  I have used several new Kenwood HF units and I appreciate how the technology has changed the radio world.

I would guess that most of you, like me, are sons and daughters of "The Greatest Generation".  As a result, I find myself becoming more interested in history and how it impacts what we are doing today.  In that light, reactivating the NYU ARC is of interest to me.      [11-3-06]

Garry Lysiak '73E, K8XM (ex-WB2DHN)

Been a long time since any contact with folks at NYU.... last operated the station at Heights Campus in 1973. My call is K8XM in Minnesota.  Past life I worked for FCC as Engineer-in-Charge of several FCC Field Offices. For past 20 yrs been running an Engineering Consulting Company specializing in AM/FM work all across US.

My old call was WB2DHN    then when I went to FCC I got W4SUN  in Norfolk, VA... then when I moved to Detroit with FCC I got K8XM.... now in Minnesota just kept my call sign......           [3-7-06]

Alan Swiedler '73WSC, WA2RUF

Read the article about the NYU ARC in the NYU Alumni Connect eNewsletter received today.  Funny, I attended NYU WSC from 1969-1973 and I never heard of, or knew about, any NYU ARC; likely because the ARC was situated at then-waning University Heights campus and the Washington Square campus was another world altogether in those days.  In any event, please feel free to include me as a member of the NYU ARC.  I love the dues policy.  While I have not been an active ham for many years, hopefully someday I can help out with reinstalling a physical station as the Washington Square campus continues to expand.  I returned to Greenwich Village in 1977 and have lived just off the NYU Washington Square campus since that time.    [4/22/10]

Yuval Zeira (1964-70),  AA2KD / 4X1FN

Hi Dan, Yes indeed, you "caught" me red handed...I spent many hours operating the station... Also built an amplifier (4 x 811a tubes), mainly from part found in the physics dept. junk room... including a power supply which needed 2 people to lift... it actually used most of the parts from one of the original LASER experiments... It was used in the club for about 3 years, until I left.

I worked & took some courses in NYU from 1964 to 1970.  Used to work in the Cosmic Rays research lab.

I am still involved with DXing & chatting on the ham bands. My call now is AA2KD (since 1992). I still maintain my Israeli call. which is now 4X1FN (extra equivalent). I spend half my time in NJ (near Oakland) & the other half we are Snowbirds in Clearwater Florida.  I maintain a ham station in each of the QTH's. The one in NJ is a "big gun" type, on top of a nice hill, a full Kw & 6 el. KLM multiband Yagi. The station in FL is a bit smaller, just a 5 bands vertical dipole with only 500w max output.

I go to Israel every year & usually operate from friends' shacks over there. Nice to know you are trying to keep the spirit of W2DSC alive. I wonder if you operate on 20m ? may be we could talk there. I am also on Skype (yuvalzee) & EchoLink (AA2KD). I looked you up in QRZ.COM & saw your picture which looked vaguely familiar. You can see mine there too...

For now, 73 & Shalom, Yuval, AA2KD/4X1FN           [2/1/07]

Dan Swerdlow '75E, KN4NM (ex-WA2BNS)

I was a member of NYUARC from 1971 through 1975.  I was EE, class of '75.  In 1973, when the club moved from the Heights to the Square we pretty much lost the engineers.  For the ones that continued at Brooklyn Poly, they rented classroom space at the Square during the 1973-74 school year, but we had to go to Brooklyn for labs.  The following year we were in Brooklyn full time.  Al Mankofsky, WA2BNJ was a physics major, class of '76 and he stuck with the club until he graduated.  I also remember Ira Rampil, WB2OOC was in the club, but he transferred, I think to SUNY.  The literal high point of my tenure was when we installed a cubical quad on the roof of McCracken Hall.  What a view!

W2RP, KG6QFD's uncle was my physics teacher at Bronx Science.  It's great to hear he's still on the air, bless his heart.  WA2BNJ and WB2OOC were also Science grads, as was Kathy Saenger, who was also a ham at NYU and whose father was a prof of oceanography, I think.  The sale of the Heights campus was a real blow to all of us and the club really suffered.  We got a small room in the student center and roof access was difficult. The long commute downtown didn't leave much time for operating and Greenwich Village in the mid 70's competed for a young person's attention in a way that University Avenue in the Bronx never had.   I'm sorry to say I have no artifacts for your museum, but it did my heart good to stumble on to your website.  Thanks for keeping the torch lit.                 [2/7/07]

Bill Schmidt '76Ed, W2ZH

Was doing some googling and noticed the nyc club info......I graduated from NYU in 1976. MS Ed. admin......now retired....would like to become a member of your club and participate in any activities.

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Thanks for the opportunity to join the club.....I read many of the bio's with interest...I had read that S.B Morse was a Prof. at the NYU campus, mid to late 1870's which sparked my interest since I had also learned that he did 'oil paintings' a new interest of mine......I attended NYU 74-76 School of Ed ( Masters program) during the evenings....I worked during the day, attended night school, tried to locate the club without any success....still, it seems I missed a 'rich' history of members....would like to support any activities that would 're-establish' a working club on their campus...tnx agan  [7/30/09]

Ignacio (Chito) Frondoso '77GBA, DU1IF

You can call me chito.. that is my nickname.   I was a ham in the 70s but only worked on the vhf 144-148mhz band.    I never got into the SSB.  With the advent of IDD and then mobile phones, I lost my interest and "need"  for two-way radio.  Thanks to you guys, you can keep the spirit of two-way radio communications alive.  Just connecting with you guys now is almost like getting connected by ham.  I have returned to the Philippines since after I finished GBA '77 and have been living here since then.  I happen to come across the NYU RADIO club by accident.  I am happy to be your member.     [4/22/10]

John Reiser (1978-82)W,  W2GW

I attended The NYU School of Arts and Sciences at Washington Square in pursuit of a master's degree in economics between 1978 and 1982.  During that time I completed all course work required for the degree (33 credits with a GPA of 3.0) and wrote a draft thesis under an advisor.  (The advisor, being a math professor, wanted me to beef up the mathematical underpinnings for my conclusions, as I recall.)  Anyway, I abandoned the effort because my eldest son was about to enter college, which made me feel too old to still be going to school myself.  Thanks to you and Gerry for the invitation.      [12/16/08]

Andy Siegel '83GSAS, N2CN

Hi,  Colin Phoon sent me your way, after I saw his post-sweepstakes soapbox article on arrl.org.  I am N2CN, and I got my MS (Computer Science) from GSAS in 1983.  Please sign me up for the NYU club.  I was involved with W2AEE (Columbia U ARC) in high school, and I ran K1AD (Brown U ARC, now pretty much defunct), so college clubs are near and dear to me.  I'm looking at what you're doing with the NYU club as a possible model for reviving the Brown Club --   my son is an (inactive) ham, KB1PIY, attending Brown, so I have an "in" both as a parent and an alum.  My father-in-law is K5QXY, making us a three-generation ham family.
    I mostly (and sporadically) operate CW on HF, though I am not a speed demon.  I am a member of the Stamford ARA (W1EE), and have a lot of fun doing Field Day with them.  I've written my own Field Day contesting software that I think is pretty unique, and used it in the last two Field Days; I'm thinking of adapting it to Sweepstakes.  I work in the IT department at Blue Sky Studios in Greenwich.   Thanks and 73.     [7-22-11]

Joan Jones '88W, W4JMJ

I am so thrilled you all do your homework!  I was tickled to work W2DSC on Oct 21/08 ... never did I think I'd work my Alma Mater ( I'm still a NEW Ham ).  I don't believe I told the operator that I was an NYU alumni.  But I was happy to receive the QSL card !!  I was also pleased to receive your email.  YES, I would be pleased to join The Club.  Sign me up.  I put the website in my favorite places and look forward to any correspondence.     [11-25-08]

Guy Dickinson '08Steinhardt, KD7TJJ

Greetings, New York University ARC! I am a recent graduate of NYU (Steinhardt '08), and a current full-time employee of the University. I am also a licensed radio amateur and am interested in seeing what activities the 'virtual NYUARC' is up to and whether I can be of any use or service.

As an undergraduate majoring in Communication Studies, Amateur Radio was often taught as a somewhat distant memory; I am only disappointed that I did not run across the NYUARC website sooner, as it would have been nice to put NYU back on the amateur radio map. Still, I would love to hear from you.         [6/17/08]