 Charter members set Edwin J. Paxton, owner of WIAR, as the president, and the club had 130 members within two weeks.The club said it represented about ten percent of the radio set owners in Paducah, which the paper estimated to be about 1,000.The radio club held meetings at the car barns of the Paducah Railway Company at Fourteenth and Broadway and would occasionally have control of WIAR during the evening broadcast hour.