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Students in the Department of Electrical Engineering Found Campus Radio Club
In November 2005, the Amateur Radio Club of Notre Dame (ARCND) held
its
first meeting. Supported by the College of Engineering, the Department
of
Electrical Engineering, and the Student Activities Office, the club holds
monthly meetings that cover a variety of topics related to amateur radio
and communications software.
Most recently, the ARCND helped establish the Jerome Green Amateur Radio Station (JGARS) on campus; it operates under the call sign ND1U and has the power to reach other amateurs around the world. The station, which is named for Jerome Green, a former professor of electrical engineering who facilitated the first long-distance radio transmission in the United States in 1899, is open to all licensed amateurs in the Notre Dame community, including students, staff and faculty at Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross colleges, and alumni.
To date, ARCND members have contacted amateurs in Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Chile, Puerto Rico, Serbia, and Spain. Club members will soon be sending out QSL cards to each station contacted. A QSL is the confirmation of a radio contact between two amateurs. The size of a postcard, it contains the call signs of both operators, as well as the time and date of the contact, the radio frequency used, the mode of transmission, and RST (readability, strength, and tone) reports.
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In 1899 during the first radio transmission in North America, Professor Jerome Green transmitted the letter “O” using Morse code between the Sacred Heart Basilica at Notre Dame and LeMans Hall at Saint Mary’s College. | ||
In the October 2005 issue of QST,
the official journal of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) — the national
association for amateur radio, Andrew Carter was named one of the 40 recipients
of an ARRL Foundation scholarship. The selection committee reviewed more
than 300 applications but chose to honor 40 outstanding young ham operators
for their endeavors.
For information about the Amateur Radio Club
of Notre
Dame, <click here>
http://www.nd.edu/~arcnd/
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Copyright 2006. University of Notre Dame.
