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April 20 Tri-State Radio Fest |
May 3 AWA, Inc. Board Meeting |
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April 25-26 IHRS/AWA Spring Meet |
May 16-17, 19-20 Linc Cundall OT DX Contest |
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May 3 AWA Spring Meet |
June 6-7 NARC Radio Daze |
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May 3 AWA Museum Board Meeting |
August 20-23 AWA Annual Conference |
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| This is our fourth annual event, sponsored by the Pittsburgh Antique Radio Society (PARS) and the Buckeye Antique Radio and Phonograph Club (Akron, Ohio). This year’s new, larger (10,000 sq. ft.) venue is the Center Stage Banquet Hall, 1495 Old Brodhead Road, Monaca, PA, next to Beaver Valley Mall. Food and lodging are within walking distance. This is an indoor flea market and auction focusing on antique/vintage radio, phonograph, TV, audio and amateur equipment. Dealer set up is 6:30-8:30 a.m. Flea market opens at 8:30. Auction check-in is 9 a.m.-noon. The auction, called by Richard Estes, begins at noon. Six-foot flea market tables are $20 each and include entry for two persons. Visitor entrance fee is $5 per person. Children 12 and under free. For additional information visit www.pittantiqueradios.org or call Rege Flaherty |
| Friday April 25 - 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm (setup 3 pm) Saturday April 26 - 7:00 am to about 2:00 pm at the Johanning Civic Center, 1500 North Reed Road (US 31) in Kokomo. Plenty of indoor Radio Swap and Sell space. Tables provided at nominal cost. Old Equipment Contest. 1920s operating radio display. More info: www.indianahistoricalradio.org. Contact Fred Prohl at (812) 988-1761 or Herman Gross at (765) 459-8308. |
| To be held at the Bloomfield Elementary School just around the corner from the A.W.A. Electronic Communication Museum Annex at 6910 Rt. 5 & 20 (intersection with Rt. 444). See map in Conference Preview section. Starts at 8:00 a.m. The entire day will be devoted to vintage radio and communication themes, including indoor and outdoor flea markets, the museum annex "junque" sale, and a large auction of radio items. This year, in lieu of a formal program, the auction will be expanded to include many surplus and duplicate museum items that have been identified in planning the move to the our new quarters. In the afternoon, the world famous AWA Museum and Annex will be open. Refreshments are available during the day and other group gatherings are encouraged and popular. The entry fee is only five dollars for this all-day event and includes an award drawing. Indoor flea market tables (provided on a first-come first-served basis) are $7.00 each. The event is open to the public and the indoor venue assures a great time rain or shine. Vendor space is still available. Contact event Chairman Ron Roach, W2FUI, at (585) 526-5487 or email W2FUI@msn.com, for further information. |
| To be held at the at the new Media Center (Bldg. 2) of the future AWA Electronic Communication Museum complex at 6925 Rtes 5&20 (intersection with Rt. 444), Bloomfield, NY. at 1 p.m. |
| To be held at the location above beginning at the conclusion of the Museum meeting. |
| See "Amateur Radio" column in this issue. |
| To be held at the Exporail Canadian Railway Museum at Delson/St. Constant near Montreal by the Morse Telegraph Club. The club was founded in 1942 by telegraph operators from throughout the U.S. and Canada. Telegraphers and amateur radio operators interested in attending the event can find more information at www.morsetelegraphclub.org or by contacting MTC International President James Wades at 611 North Park St., No. 110, Carbondale, IL or jameswades@gmail.com |
| Two renowned British Vintage Wireless Society events take place back to back on these dates. They are the garden party at the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum (May 31 in West Dulwich, London) and the Harpenden Swapmeet (June 1 at Harpenden Public Halls, Southdown Road, Harpenden). Both events are open to members only. Visit www.bvws.org.uk/index.htm for more details, including how to join. |
| The Northland Antique Radio Club, The Pavek Museum Of Broadcasting and The Antique Wireless Association presents Radio Daze 2008, to be held on Friday, June 6 and Saturday June 7 at The Comfort Inn of Plymouth, located at the northwest corner of I-494 and Hwy. 55 in Plymouth, Minnesota. Phone (763) 559-1222; special room rates are available for the event. Equipment Auction Friday evening; Parking Lot Flea Market Saturday starting at dawn; Old Equipment Saturday afternoon followed by a formal Program. Our speaker this year will be Steve Raymer, Managing Director of The Pavek Museum of Broadcasting. And don't forget the annual Pavek Museum Garage Sale and the free Museum admission. For more information, go to the Northland Antique Radio Club's web site at www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/4544/ |
| Cincinnati Antique Radio Society, which is the support group for the Gray's History of Wireless Museum at the VOA, will present Radiorama 17 on June 28 at the VOA site. Now on the National Historic Register, the site can be found approx. 1/2 mile east of I-75 off exit 22. If interested, AWA members may contact Mr. Bob White at 513-385-8291 or Mr. Bob Sands at 513-858-1755. |
| At the Rochester Institute of Technology Conference Center. See "Conference Preview" in this issue.. |
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The AWA has an email reflector that I'll bet not many members know about. It was founded on Oct 12, 1998 and almost every week I get a message from a long time AWA member who has just discovered it. In case you don't know what an email reflector is, I'll explain. Once you become a member of such a reflector, you'll be able to send an email to a single address and it will be distributed automatically to all the members. As I'm writing this in late February of 2008 there are 336 members. In other words, with just one email you can send a message to 336 other folks that have similar interests. Messages about AWA activities, items wanted, items for sale, questions about history or help with a restoration project are welcome, But no spam please!
Our reflector was originally part of egroups, which was then bought by Yahoo, so now it's a Yahoo Group. There are literally thousands of special interest groups on Yahoo. You can search these at http://groups.yahoo.com/ There are Yahoo Groups for just about any special interest you could think of.
If you would like to join the AWA email group all you have to do is send a email message to;
antiquewirelessassociation-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Please include a comment that will let me know that you really are a person with a genuine interest in antique radio. As list manager I will get a message telling me that you want to join and asking for my approval. There's nothing snobbish about this approval. This step is necessary to prevent spam bots from getting in and mining all of the group's email addresses. Once you become a member you can access the group's web page and customize your setup to either receive individual emails every time someone posts a message or get messages in a daily digest where all the messages of that day are listed together. Group membership is not just for AWA members, it's open to anyone with a interest in old radios. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Ron Lawrence, W4RON, CC-AWA President & Conference Chairman P.O. Box 3015 Matthews, NC 28106 704-289-1166 W4RON@carolina.rr.com
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