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The text below was copied from http://w5ac.tamu.edu/history.php3 on November 3, 2004. It's the "Background Information" section. Please edit it, add to it, and make your edits show up somehow (bold text perhaps) so the info is right. You have to register first, but it's extremely easy to do so. Ideally, the club webmaster will periodically check out the changes y'all make, and update the .edu site accordingly, since this text started out as an educated guess by one student. On with the history!
<h2>Background Information</h2>
The amateur radio club at AMC* was founded and licensed in 1912. The club has been on campus ever since, making it one of the oldest university radio clubs in existence.
* <u>A</u>gricultural & <u>M</u>echanical <u>C</u>ollege of Texas, which would become Texas A&M University in 1963
The club's name during the early days was some variation of "Texas A&M College Radio Club." Early records show that we once made our transmissions from Bolton Hall, the Electrical Engineering building at the time. We were there at least until the construction of the MSC in the 1950's. We contacted 9 different countries in 1926 alone, not to mention the thousands of U.S. contacts in the logbooks. We've been affiliated with ARRL since June 10, 1924.
The "First Radio Broadcast of Football Game", detailed on this page, was made possible by William A. "Doc" Tolson and others, and it is his picture which has become famous in association with that broadcast. After October 7, 1922, public broadcasts at the college were made from the callsign WTAW, which is still in use commercially (off campus) today. Amateur radio continued at 5XB, which changed its callsign to become W5AC today. While some say the call letters WTAW were chosen to spell "Watch The Aggies Win", the letters TAW are also the reverse of "Doc" Tolson's initials!
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