The WPI Wireless Association is regarded as the first College Amateur Radio Club to be on the air.[9] Founded in 1909, by Oliver B. Jacobs and a group of 40 other men, the club has a historically significant role in the early age of wireless communications both in the United States and the world.[citation needed] The Wireless Association was one of the first 12 stations heard by Paul Godely,[10] an American who went to Scotland to conduct the first Transatlantic Tests, when stations in America and Scotland tried to hear each other across the Atlantic Ocean.