Celebrating our Club's 75th Anniversary in 2007-08

Perspire and Persevere  ! 

 (last update - June 25, 2008)

NEWS:  Polytechnic Merger Approved - The New York State Board of Regents approved the merger between New York University and Polytechnic University (Brooklyn).  Polytechnic will become a school of technology and engineering within NYU and will be known as the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.  Click here to read the latest news story.

  Greetings to all "Dirty Street Cleaners" and friends,

The  New York University Amateur Radio Club was founded in the Spring of 1932, at the University Heights (Bronx) campus, in New York City.  The original pre-war call sign was W2DSA.  (Believe it or not, Prof Greenstein was the faculty advisor from Day One.)   Like other amateur radio operations, the club went dark during World War II and the Heights campus became a training camp for the military.   

In the post-war 1940s,  the NYU Amateur Radio Club at the Heights was reconstituted by several returning veterans.  W2DSC became the new call sign, as W2DSA was not available (for reasons unknown). The club was very active in the '50s, '60s, and early '70s.  Later, when NYU left the Bronx in 1973, the club moved downtown to Washington Square. Not much is known about the club after that, or if there even was a club.

In 1995, the club's license expired, along with the last known trustee, Herbert Schwartz K2LVU.  Several of us alumni from the Class of '71 thought that the rich history of the NYU Radio Club should be preserved. We undertook the tortuous route of reclaiming our callsign under the FCC's early vanity program.  In August 2000 the callsign W2DSC was restored to the NYU Amateur Radio Club.

We would like to hear from new or old alumni and current NYU student hams. Perhaps someday a physical station can be re-installed at Washington Square (or maybe Brooklyn).  For now, we will do our best to keep alive a "virtual" NYU ARC.
 

The NYU Amateur Radio Club Museum 

We have collected various items from the history of W2DSA and W2DSC, scanned into picture files, and displayed them here for you to enjoy.  There is also a time line of the station gear, and notes from old time alumni.  We hope to add many more items as  time goes on.  If you have anything that might be of interest, please send it along.   Be sure to read the Radio Club page in the 1935 Violet Yearbook.  To enter the museum, just Click the picture at left.   Admission is Free ! 

    Announcing   -  Three new features have been added to the museum.  Click a picture to go there directly.

Heights Campus Today -  Take a quick visual tour of the former NYU Heights campus, photographed by Dan K2UL on August 19, 2007.  It's not as bad as you might think.
 

QSL Card Gallery   -  Members of W2DSC have been active on the air using the club callsign.  This page contains some interesting QSL examples received from contests and DXing. 
 

In Memoriam  -  In searching for former Club members, we sometimes find them too late.  This page is in memory of alumni and friends who are no longer with us.
 

 New W2DSC QSL Cards

For the first time in 50+ years, W2DSC has a new QSL design.  Bob WB2NVR worked on the design and did all the leg work.  The front of the card has the Call and the NYU seal printed over a picture of MacCracken Hall.  The back  has a lengthy description of NYU, past and present, and a blank space to affix computer-generated signal report labels.   Click the picture at left for full size images.  We will be happy to send a sample card to any club member who would like one. 

Since we are a virtual club, with no permanent station, any club member may use the W2DSC callsign from his/her own station.  If you would like to use the call in a particular contest or operating event, just let us know, so we can handle the QSL chores as needed.  And also to stay legit with the FCC.   Bob WB2NVR has volunteered to be QSL Manager.
 

Membership is open to anyone with an interest in amateur radio and a connection to NYU, past or present.  There are NO dues.

How to Contact Us   

     E-mail:   w2dsc @ arrl. net     OR   nyuarc @ att. net  

     Postal:   NYU Radio Club
                    c/o Daniel Ostroy
                    8 Golden Crest Court
                    Hamilton NJ  08691-3313

     QSL Mgr:   WB2NVR, Bob Schaps

Executive Committee  (4)

K1NY - Gerry Skloot, President,  '71E, '74GBA, ex-WB2FJX

K2UL - Dan Ostroy, Trustee for W2DSC,  '71E, ex-WB2TUL

K2EK - Bill Gioia,  Vice President,  '71E, ex-WB2DZZ

WB2NVR -  Bob Schaps,  Vice President,  '71E, '74GBA

Alumni  Members  (34)

W2KGV - Ladd Sajor  (1934-35) W3NCC - Richard Roxas (1934-37), ex-W2BOP no call  -  Elihu Cohen '47E W6NYW, W2NKM - Walter Bonazza '48E no call  -  Dino Paschetto '48E no call  -  Arnold Shulman '48E no call  -  Milton Rosen '48E N1RA  -  Bob Avrutik  '49E, ex-W2NVO W2GKS - Herb Sinofsky  (1949-50) ex-W2UGN - Al Eckert '50E W3GQB - Sid Schwartz  '52E, ex-W2HDZ W2VLX - Dave Freedman '52E ex-W2ZDE - Steve Leibholz '52A ex-W2VQA - Stan Dickstein '53E W3DEF - Stephen Aug  '56A, ex-K2EOF ex-K2KOK - Paul Schnitzler  '57E, '59E N6TJ - Jim Neiger '62E, ex-W7WJB and others

N6NO - Merv MacMedan '63E, ex-W2JOA ex-K2KMA - Ron Litt '63E, '63A N2DT - Dan Handelsman '64A, ex- WA2BCG N1SC - Stuart Cohen '65E, ex- K2IOC KG6QFD - Martin Hellman '66E, ex-WB2AHX WA2UNC - Paul Moskowitz '66E, '68A, '71A K2UU - Gary "Woody" Woodhouse '67Ed, '70Ed NS6A - Rick Lehrbaum '68E, ex-WA2APT N4FA - Martin Horowitz '68E, '70E ex-WN2WZD - Don DiGalbo '69E WB2YDC - Paul Hunter '71E WB4QZG - Ruth Bromer '71E K8XM - Garry Lysiak '73E, ex-WB2DHN K2IE - Bob Norton '74W KN4NM - Dan Swerdlow '75E, ex-WA2BNS AA2KD / 4X1FN - Yuval Zeira (1964-71) KD7TJJ - Guy Dickinson  '08Steinhardt

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  NYU ARC Club News Archive

   Most recent newsletter:  June 2008

   Past newsletters:   September 2007 ;   October 2006 ;   September 2005 ;    August 2005 Exec

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