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