Thirty-seven employees attended the first formal meeting of the newly organized Hughes Amateur Radio club. The meeting was held Thursday evening, Jan. 21 1954, in the CAP building at municipal airport.

All those attending automatically became charter members. Members with licenses are listed here with their call letters: Stanley Oaks, W7PJM; J. R. Scott, Jr., W7LZP; C. F. Borchert, W7JMC; W. J. Hill, W7MAW; G. A. Walker, W7TEQ; G. M. Stickles, Jr., KB6AN; G. J. McCullough, W7SQX; D. E. Hildreth, W6NRW; H. H. Yost, W9OGJ; Jack McQuown, W7OGU; L. L. Galhouse, W7LHF; C. R. White, W6SOP; T. T. Gorsline, W7TPT; E. R. Darlington, W7STM; Bob Cramer, W7DRQ; Ray Harland, W7FRA; Philip Shafer, W9OIM; R.E. Kimball, W7TFQ; B. A. Cole, W7UCV; J. A. Bilka W7EUF. There are 10 call districts in the United States, with Arizona as part of the seventh district.

Other radio amateurs who attended the meeting and are now charter members but do not have their licenses yet are F. C. Solza, T. T. Waring, Clay Hamilton, J. L. Briggs, C. D. Gustafson, L. P. Gardner, M. H. Wharton, L. L. Wesson, J. H. Reger, O. B. Drayer, J. F. Bogle, Jr., John Rhodes, Wayne Jackson, Donald McBride, Reginald Farnum, Ed Hiltenbrandt, and Carl Smith.

President of the new club is R. E. Kimball, Dept. 841. He became interested in amateur radio in 1926, through a friend who was Admiral Byrd's traffic contact to the eastern United States on the first South Pole expedition. Kimball would sit with him at the radio set when the South Pole messages came through.

Regular meetings of the club will be held on the first and third Thursdays of the month in the CAP building. Some of the proposed activities include radio and theory instruction, hidden transmitter hunts, civil defense communications, and mobile radio activities.