Betsey and I started the Oak Hill School Amateur Radio Club in 1960 I
believe and call was k1QCK.  I was trustee and we had 17 novices then.
Article in QST August 1963 about the club. No longer there though.
Barb [log in to unmask]
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From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:27 PM
Subject: Amateur Radio Clubs at Schools for the Blind


> A short article in the "At the Foundation" section of July QST mentioned a
> new radio club at the Texas School for the Blind. That got me to wondering
> about how many such clubs used to exist, as well as how many are still
> around.
>
> I know that there were once clubs at Overbrook School in Philadelphia, and
> at the Western Pennsylvania School in Pittsburgh. The Seeing Eye still
> maintains a station at their training facility. I think there was also a
> club at the old Arkansas Enterprises (Now Lions World Services) in Little
> Rock.
>
> My school in Mississippi organized a club briefly in the mid 70's.
> Unfortunately, that happened after my graduation. The primary mover and
> shaker in the club changed jobs and left town, and the equipment was
stolen
> during a school building expansion in the early 80s.
>
> It would be neat to collect a list and brief history of these clubs, and
to
> see whose out there now.
>
> Anyone want to roll this snowball a little further?
>
> Mike Duke, K5XU
> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>