Directions to Ham Radio testing site at Murray State University, Collins Center for Industry & Technology room 237. Same location is used for MSU Amateur Radio Club meetings.

  1. Entering Murray from north of town, via U.S. 641 (it's also known as 12th Street in town): go straight through the traffic light at the Wal-Mart entrance, the light just before the university football stadium, and the new light in front of the football stadium and Cracker Barrel (Wal-Mart and the football stadium are both to your right as you head southbound, Cracker Barrel is on the left).
  2. Turn right at the next traffic light onto Chestnut Street. This is at a corner with Hardee's Restaurant on the right.
  3. Go about 3 blocks West (but the cross streets aren't obvious, so don't bother counting them). You'll pass tennis courts on the left and some MSU dormitories on the right. Chestnut Street will then take a curve and dip to go under a pedestrian overpass walkway. After clearing the curve, take the first left, which is the entrance drive to the parking lot for the Collins Center for Industry & Technology (a modernistic building with two prominent geodesic domes). Follow the drive to the left down into the parking lot. If you go all the way to the traffic light at 16th Street you've gone too far.
  4. To find your way to the exam/meeting room the first time, it's easiest to park at the far East end of the lot and climb the stairs up to the pedestrian walkway that you just drove under. Then walk South (turn right) a couple hundred feet and turn right again to take the walkway onto the Industry & Technology Building "patio".
  5. Take the far right doorway into the East end of the building (look up and you'll see a trap-vertical antenna on the roof overhead near the dome). Room 237 is to your right.
  6. In case you can read it, a map in gif format is available.
  7. If entering from the south of Murray, via U.S. 641: 641 is also known as 12th Street in Murray. Go through the first 5 traffic lights (if I've counted right) and turn left at the 6th light onto Chestnut Street, heading West. You'll see a Pizza Hut Restaurant at this intersection on the right, and Hardee's across the intersection on the left. Then follow paragraphs 3-6 above.
  8. If entering Murray from the east on KY 94: 94 is also known as Main Street in Murray. There are several ways to get to the I&T building, so this is just one. Follow Main Street past the Courthouse Square all the way to 12th Street (also marked as U.S. 641, at a traffic light). Turn right (North) onto 12th Street/U.S. 641. Proceed through the next light and turn left at the second light onto Chestnut Street, heading West. You'll see a Pizza Hut Restaurant at this intersection on the right, and Hardee's across the intersection on the left. Then follow paragraphs 3-6 above. If you're familiar with town and can get to the MSU campus better another way, do that. Once into the I&T parking lot, you can use paragraphs 4-6 to find the room.
  9. If entering Murray from the west on KY 94: 94 is also known as Main Street in Murray. The easiest way to find I&T from this direction is to turn left at the first traffic light, onto 16th Street. Proceed North on 16th Street until the next traffic light, and turn right, onto Chestnut Street. The I&T building is immediately on your right; turn right at the first driveway and follow the drive down into the parking lot to your left. Once into the I&T parking lot, you can use paragraphs 4-6 above to find the room.
  10. If entering Murray from the northwest on KY 121: stay on 121 bypass until the second traffic light, which is at 16th Street. A convenience store will be on your left at this intersection. Turn right (South) onto 16th Street. Go to the next traffic light, at the intersection of 16th and Chestnut (also known as “5 points”), and turn left onto Chestnut. The I&T building is immediately on your right; turn right at the driveway and follow the drive down into the parking lot to your left. Once into the I&T parking lot, you can use paragraphs 4-6 to find the room. If you already know your way around Murray and know how to take the Coldwater Road shortcut to 16th & Chestnut (also known as "5 points"), that's fine to do.  Then bear left at 5 points onto Chestnut Street, and turn right into I&T.