The Cambridge University Wireless Society (CUWS) is the amateur radio

Amateur radio

Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...

 club of the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

, England

England

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CUWS is one of the oldest still active radio clubs in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. It was founded on on 13 October 1920 and its call sign

Call sign

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 has since 1932 always been G6UW. The society operates a radio shack outside Cambridge

Cambridge

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 and frequently enters amateur radio contests such as CQWW in both the single-sideband modulation

Single-sideband modulation

Single-sideband modulation or Single-sideband suppressed-carrier is a refinement of amplitude modulation that more efficiently uses electrical power and bandwidth....

 (SSB) and carrier wave

Carrier wave

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 (CW) category.

Some notable ex-members are Maurice Wilkes and Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...

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