May 6, 2026

This Week in Amateur Radio

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Texas A&M

W5AC continues A&M’s amateur radio tradition (Texas)

As the first public institution of higher education in Texas, Texas A&M is a pioneer in many ways.

A&M’s amateur radio club, called W5AC, is an example of this.

The club was involved with the 1921 play-by-play broadcast of an A&M-University of Texas football game — the first of its kind by an amateur radio station. However, a commercial station in Pittsburgh beat it out to be the first in the nation.

But the club’s history runs deeper than that.

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