Records of the Cambridge University Wireless Society, 1920 - 2014
Scope and Contents
The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.
Dates
- Creation: 1920 - 2014
Creator
- Cambridge University Wireless Society (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Biographical / Historical
The society was founded on 13 October 1920 and caters for those interested in amateur radio. It maintains a station (shack and equipment), and also the callsign G6UW (assigned in 1932). It competes in a variety of national and international calling contests; undertakes expeditions to broadcast from remote locations; arranges occasional speaker meetings; and holds social events. The physicist Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams was a member in the late 1920s. Further information about the society's activities is on its website: http://www.g6uw.org/.
Extent
1 linear metre(s) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Many of the items are in poor condition. They have sustained burn, water and mould damage.
Former / Other Reference
Ms.Add.8379
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The bulk of the records were transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 8 May 2008. They had been presented by T. Gleason (?Christ's College), chairman of the Cambridge University Wireless Society, to the Manuscripts Department on 15 March 1983 and had been given the classmark Ms.Add.8379. SOC.96.1.1 and 2 were transferred to the University Archives from Cambridge University Central Science Library by Simon Goose on 9 April 2008. SOC.96.4.17-18 were transferred by Martin Atherton, Honorary President, on 19 April 2022.
General
The online catalogue entry was completed in May 2008 and emended in June 2022.
Originator(s)
Cambridge University Wireless Society
Finding aid date
2008-05-05 11:39:33+00:00
Repository Details
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