About Ham Radio and W6YX

What is Amateur (Ham) Radio?

The Stanford Amateur Radio Club (W6YX) consists of about 50 students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members. Members are active in many aspects of ham radio including:

Emergency preparedness and communications
Radio contesting
VHF, UHF, and Microwave communications
Packet radio & high speed data communications
Amateur television
DXing (long distance communications)
License courses and exams
QSL card collecting
HF weather FAX
The Museum Station Project
..and just plain rag-chewing.

The club is a University-affiliated student organization and was formed sometime in the early 1920's (rumor has it as 1922), and has been more or less active ever since. We have been affiliated with the American Radio Relay League, the national association for amateur radio, since 1924.

Radio Station
W6YX operates a well-equipped station, with capabilities from 1.8 MHz to 1300 MHz (160 meters through 23 centimeters). CW, voice, packet, RTTY, ATV, and satellite modes are all supported.

Mork K6UFO has prepared a high frequency terrain analysis of the station.
Click here to view the analysis of the W6YX site.

Our station is located at Site 530 in the Stanford foothills. The shack telephone number is 650-856-2737 (856-ARES).

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