W6YX History Files

The Stanford Amateur Radio Club has a long and storied past. Students have put amateur radio stations on the air from various campus locations since the dawn of the twentieth century. This page contains a few select documents from the club's records which provide snapshots of activities throughout the decades. Alumni wishing to contribute to the club's history archive are encouraged to contact w6yx-info@w6yx.stanford.edu.

• Letter to the club from William Wells '26, ex-6AEG, telling about ham life on campus in the mid- 1920's.
• Letter and postcard to the club from George Watson '30, K6WL, describing W6YX activities in the late 1920's.
• David Packard recalls being active in the club during the early 1930's in his book The HP Way.
• Club photograph and description of accomplishments from the 1951 Stanford Quad.
• Stew Gillmor '60, W1FK, Professor of History and Science at Wesleyan Univesity, relates early club history as well as activities in the 1950's. Includes a club photograph from the 1957 Stanford Quad.
• Photograph of the W6YX shack in 1963 scanned by Howard Nurse W6HN in 2006.
• 1964 Annual Report.
• Photograph of the shack near Ryan Labs just prior to the move to Searsville Road in 1967.
• Photographs of the new Searsville Road shack in 1967.
• Newsletter from the fall of 1969.
• Photographs and chronology from the cumulative membership directory prepared for the club's 50th anniversary in 1975.
• 50th anniversary press release from the Stanford News Service.
• Worldradio article by alumnus Orin Levis '32, W6DZK.
• Antenna assembly of the KLM 6-element 20-meter yagi (circa 1982) by (left to right) Ron Roberts WA6ITV, Stuart Neubarth WA6FSI, Wayne Wright W5XD, and Gary Bronner N100.
• Agenda from the October 5, 1982 meeting.
• Newsletter from fall quarter 1985.
• Information sheet from the mid- to late 1980's.
• Brochure and history prepared for the University's 100th anniversary celebration in 1991.
• Club FM repeater history
• Constitution and Bylaws dating from 1952.
• The Museum Station Project
• The March 3, 2003 Antenna Work Party