Hello,
I am a graduate student at the mech and aerospace engineering dept at George
Washington University. I did some investigation, and am continuing to find
information about the old GWU ham radio station that evidently was on the
4th floor (ECE Dept) situated in Tompkins Hall utilizing an HF beam and 2M
dual polarization multielement yagi. Does anybody have the history of this
station?
I haven't gone up to that roof top location yet (weather issues) but both of
the masts seem to have a rotator. The RF coax cables are last reported
"seen" 10 years ago, and led to a room on the 4th floor (or perhaps 3rd
floor). The roof top height + mast height might be approximately 10 stories
from ground level.
I'm interesting in getting info from former GWU students who may still be
active hams/amsat members if they remember if any equipment was left around
the place, in a closet somewhere and what the specs of the system were when
the station was active.
If you are a current ham and attend classes at the Foggy Bottom campus,
please contact me, I'm trying to organize a request to School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences to let me restart using the rooftop for ham radio and
amateur satellite ground station operation.
For reference:
Google Earth KMZ attached
Google Earth Snapshot attached
Any ideas?
Regards,
Samudra, N3RDX
