Call sign: W0ISU 

Founded: 1911

Website: http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/radioclub

     The Iowa State University Amateur Radio Club turned on it's glowing radio tubes in 1911 under the call sign "9YI." Many decades later they are still communicating around the world under their "W0ISU" call sign. The club membership spreads through the students, faculty, and staff of the campus and provides an operating station located in A147 Friley Hall. Their website can be found here and provides additional information.

History Of Radio At The Iowa State University

      Radio broadcasting began at (then) Iowa State College in 1911 when the engineering department established a wireless telegraph station.

     Newspaper articles dated 1913 report station 9YI was regularly sending and receiving weather reports by Morse code and communicating with amateur radio stations.

The first non-code broadcast took place November 21, 1921 and consisted of one hour of live concert music. In April 1922 the United States Department of Commerce issued a formal license for station WOI. The first licensed broadcast by WOI on April 28, 1922.

     WOI radio remains on-air today at 640 kilocycles, fulltime, still owned and operated by Iowa State University as an active, contributing member of educational National Public Radio.

The original 'amateur' callsign 9YI is now W0YI, the now defunct ISU Campus Radio Club.  Although this call sign is still held by the university, the Cyclone Amateur Radio Club uses the call W0ISU

A more complete history can be found at: http://www.stuorg.iastate.edu/radioclub/history.shtml