AWA Spring meet - Sat. 5/4/24 - Bloomfield, NY

 

Don't miss the 2024 Antique Wireless Association's annual spring meet!

more info at: https://www.antiquewireless.org/homepage/2024-spring-meet/

AWA Spring Meet, Flea Mkt & Auction - 5/13/23

 

Antique Wireless Conference 2022

 from the August 2022 RARA Rag:

SAQ Alexanderson transmitter on XMAS eve

SAQ, the call sign of the 1920s vintage Alexanderson transmitter in Grimeton, Sweden, is set to be on the air for its annual Christmas Eve transmission December 24th at 0800 UTC.

SAQ transmits CW with up to 200 kW on 17.2 kHz. Tune-up is scheduled to begin at around 0730 UTC, with the holiday message transmitted on December 24 at 0800 UTC.

The transmitter set consists in all essentials of three parts, the driving motor, a gear drive and the high frequency generator, commonly called the alternator. They are assembled on a solid base of steel. The weight of the complete transmitter set is about 50 tons.

Learn more about this interesting transmitter:
https://alexander.n.se/scheduled-transmission-from-grimeton-radio-saq-on-christmas-eve-december-24-2018-2/?lang=en

AWA Hartley Transmitter video on Youtube

The Antique Wireless Association has a new video with Andy, K0SM, discussing the 1920s style Hartley transmitters that he built and uses on the air, most recently in the AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO Party.

I thought that this might be of interest to the local ham community.
Video: https://youtu.be/Lli4DI2XFMQ

73 de AE2EA,

Mark Erdle

Trustee, Antique Wireless Association

http://www.antiquewireless.org

more AWA Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO Party info at:

http://www.antiquewireless.org/bruce-kelley-memorial-cw-qso-party.html

2018 AWA Spring Meet and Auction - May 5th, 2018

2018 AWA SPRING MEET and BIG AWA AUCTION

The annual Antique Wireless Association Spring Meet, Flea Market & Huge Auction will be held at Veteran’s Park in Bloomfield, NY. This is just across the road from the AWA Museum, 6945 State Route 5 at the intersection of Routes 5 & 20 and Route 444.

The AWA will be operating a Museum Bargain Table and a big Book Sale in the former AWA Annex building located in the park. As part of the meet, AWA held a Auction of duplicate and surplus items from the Museum’s artifacts. Don't miss it.  This major auction is held in the afternoon in the former AWA Annex.

Payment must be made by cash or check.  We will not be able to accept credit cards.  Auction items will be listed on the AWA web site below. Watch for updates to the list.


The BIG Auction begins at 1 p.m. at the former AWA Annex.  The Auction Preview opens at 8:00 AM.

link for more info: http://www.antiquewireless.org/2018-spring-meet.html

Save the date! 2016 - AWA Spring meet

2016 Antique Wireless Association Spring Meet



Each year the AWA traditionally hosts its Spring Meet in Bloomfield, New York on the first Saturday of the month of May.  For 2016, the Spring Meeting is Saturday, May 7th.  This year as last, the event has been expanded.

AWA SPRING MEET and BIG AWA AUCTION (Tentative Schedule)

As part of this year’s AWA Spring Meet, the AWA will hold a very special, a very BIG auction of duplicate items from the Museum’s collection.  The BIG auction will be held in the afternoon at Rhonda’s Auction House just down the street from the Spring Meet and the Museum.  Don’t miss this very special, very BIG auction.  A partial list of items to be auctioned will be posted on the AWA web site as they are set aside for the auction.

Check out old Radio Shack and Allied Catalogs online

 Back a few months ago I posted a brief story about the demise of Radio Shack. Generations of home electronics hobbyists, ham radio enthusiasts and computer geeks spent their growth-spurt years hanging around their local Radio Shack stores. I was one of them. The company's heyday ran from the 1970s through the late 1990s, when it rode the CB radio craze as the largest retailer in the market, and then transformed into a creditable maker of computer gear. Ham Radio and Scanners were also a big part of that heyday.

Well now you can go back and view your favorite old Radio Shack catalogs on line. Thanks to the folks at RadioShackCatalogs.com. At this website you will be able to view these old 1939-2011 Radio Shack and Tandy Electronics' catalogs, sale flyers, brochures, and more...year by year...page by page.

What's unique about this website is that the catalogs are presented as a VIRTUAL catalog, in a "page-flipping" format. This gives you the experience of paging-through an actual Radio Shack catalog. They also have old sales flyers and even TV commercials along with lots of company history.

Check it out here: http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/index.html

You can also view old Allied Radio catalogs at this site: http://www.alliedcatalogs.com/

I spent an hour last night looking back at some of the cool stuff I enjoyed in my youth. Take a look for yourself, I think you'll have some fun!

Also check out our previous Radio Shack story: http://www.upstateham.com/2015/04/the-demise-of-radio-shack-and-where-to.html

If you have a Radio Shack story you would like to share with our readers, drop us a line at UpstateHam@gmail.com.

N.F.W.A. Antique Radio Swap Meet - August 1st, 2015

Niagara Frontier Wireless Association

N.F.W.A. Antique Radio Swap Meet
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village Museum
3755 Tonawanda Creek Rd., Amherst N.Y.

8:00am – Noon

This is our annual summer meet. Gates will open at 8:00am. Set-up in the parking lot.

Come and enjoy an antique radio and ham equipment flea market and auction.

There will be a donation auction at 11:00am to help cover costs. Please bring some saleable items.

We will also be running a 50/50 raffle to help keep this a free event.

ENTRANCE IS FREE!

No fee to set up and sell. Tables will be available (a limited number) for a $5 rental fee.

Free coffee and dounuts will be available, as will the free lunch to follow the meet.

The Museum will be open at noon for anyone wishing to see some of the wonderful exhibits (including our own radio and TV displays).

The Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village Museum is located at 3755 Tonawanda Creek Rd., Amherst, N.Y., (north of Buffalo) at the junction with New Road on the south side of Tonawanda Creek in a quiet park like setting.

 Learn more at: http://www.nfwa.net/

AWA Spring Meet - May 2nd

AWA SPRING MEET and BIG AWA AUCTION

 Saturday May 2, 2015 Bloomfield, New York

 As part of this year’s Antique Wireless Association Spring Meet, the AWA will hold a very special, a very BIG auction of duplicate items from the Museum’s collection. The BIG auction will be held in the afternoon at Rhonda’s Auction House just down the street from the Spring Meet and the Museum. Don’t miss this very special, very BIG auction. A partial list of items to be auctioned will be posted on the AWA web site as they are set aside for the auction.

Come early in the morning to the Spring Meet and enjoy the flea market (better yet, bring items to sell), the bargain table Museum sale, Dan’s doughnuts and coffee, and at 10:00 am, visit the Museum.

The BIG auction will begin at 1 pm with Rich Estes auctioneering. The auction preview will be open at Noon at Rhonda’s Auction House. Also, take some time for lunch and browse for antiques at Rhonda’s Antique Center. And, enjoy all this for only a $5 admission ticket. If you are not an AWA member and want to visit the Museum, buy a Spring Meet/Museum admission combination ticket for only $10 (a $2 discount for admission to the Museum)

The tentative schedule for this BIG day: 

7:00 am Flea Market opens Veteran’s Park
8:00 am AWA Museum Bargain Table Sale Annex Building, Veteran’s Park
10:00 am Antique Wireless Museum open until Noon
Noon Auction pre-view Rhonda’s Auction House
1 pm Rich Estes starts the BIG AWA Auction

Because of the nature of the auction this year, AWA will not be able to accept member’s items to be auctioned at this event. But, please bring them to the AWA Convention to be held August 11 to 15 at the RIT Conference Center.

Directions: http://www.antiquewireless.org/location-and-campus-details.html

AWA web site: http://www.antiquewireless.org/2015-spring-meet.html

Vintage Korean and Vietnam war Survival Radio

A few weeks ago a friend gave me a couple of old tube type portable survival radios that had been sitting in his basement. The radios are both Hoffman RT-159/URC-4 models. One is Army green and the other bright yellow. Both are in pretty good condition. They are dual band transceivers set up to transmit and receive on the air band emergency channels 121.5 Mhz and 243.0 Mhz. One of the coolest things are the telescoping dipole antennas that you can unfold and set for either VHF or UHF.

I started to do some research on the history of this radio and found it dates back to the early 1950's. One of these days I will have to try to find a power source to try and see if they will function (though I better use a dummy load, as both frequencies are still the main aircraft emergency channels). If you know anything about these radios, please leave a comment on this blog entry or e-mail me through my QRZ e-mail address.

Here is a link to an interesting article about the Hoffman RT-159A/URC-4: http://www.eetimes.com/design/power-management-design/4006313/Retro-wireless-Hoffman-RT-159A-URC-4-survival-radio


73- Tony - KC2VER