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July 30-August 1 Radiofest 2009 |
August 8 CCAWA Summer Swap Meet |
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August 8 NWFA/AWA Meet |
August 20-23 AWA Annual Conference |
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| The Antique Radio Club of Illinois is hosting its annual Radiofest at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Center of Willowbrook at 7800 South Kingery Hwy (Rte 83), Willowbrook, IL 60527. Reservations: 1-630-325-6400; Fax: 1-630-325-2362; Email: info@willowbrookholidayinn.com. Mention Radiofest for the discounted room rate of $95.00 per night. The main auction will start on Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. followed by a free opening pizza party. The swap meet opens on Friday morning at 7 a.m. Speaker programs are available throughout the day including: Dan Childers--author of Chicago’s WLS Radio; Dr. Adrian Peterson--History Of QSL Cards & Worldwide Radio recently featured in Popular Communications magazine; Bill Ross--Ham Radio Forum; and, Bret Menassa, Matthew May & Ed Huether offering an afternoon Radio Restoration Clinic. The Old Equipment Contest and the Awards Banquet will take place on Friday. The Equipment Contest will feature a special display of QSL cards from Dr. Peterson’s personal collection, the fourth largest in the world. A guest at the banquet will be Chuck Schaden of Chicago’s Those Were The Days and the nationally syndicated When Radio Was who will be receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from ARCI for his 39 years of broadcasting. The banquet will include entertainment from West End Jazz Band. Enjoy music from ‘20s-‘30s, dancing and a silent film comedy short with authentic musical accompaniment. The Donation Auction, a free Seller’s Raffle and the swap meet will close the show on Saturday morning. We invite everyone to visit the huge Wolff’s Flea Market (the largest in Chicago), the world famous Kane County Flea Market and nearby Bolingbrook Amateur Radio Society (BARS) Hamfest, all operating the same weekend as Radiofest. Radiofest fees are: 1st selling space $45.00, additional $25.00, Saturday $30.00; Banquet tickets $25.00 each, $45.00 per couple. For more information please see the ARCI web site at http://www.antique-radios.org |
| Annual joint meet with the AWA. At the Amherst Museum, Amherst, NY (north of Buffalo). From the NY State Thruway, take Exit 49 (Transit Rd., Rt. 78) north nine miles. Left on Tonawonda Creek Rd. just before entering Niagara County (there is also a Tonawonda Creek Rd, in Niagara County on the north side of the Creek). Proceed two miles west to the museum. The meet is outside just west of the buildings. There are lots of motels and restaurants at Thruway Exit 49. Flea Market opens at 8 a.m. and runs through noon; auction begins at about 11:00 and there will also be a donation auction to support the Museum. The Museum exhibits open at 11:30 and include a room of early radios. Your spouse can enjoy the exhibits while you do the flea market. Contest categories will be broad enough to include any item related to early radio. The $5.00 entry fee includes annual NFWA membership, museum admission, flea-market setup. No additional fees to sell or for any other activity. Free coffee and donuts. Lunch available. For info, call Larry Babcock at (716) 741-3082 or President Gary Parzy at (716) 440-2942. |
| To be held at Valdese, NC. For details of this and all other Carolinas Chapter events on their web page at www.cc-awa.org |
| At the Rochester Institute of Technology Conference Center. See special Conference insert in this issue. |
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WITH THE CHAPTERS
 REPORT ON OUR ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The weather man starting predicting rain ten days before the our Annual Conference at Charlotte March 26-28. I'd watch the forecast and tell myself "they don't know what it's going to do." But by the Wednesday morning before the show they were calling for heavy rain for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I finally had to admit that maybe they did know what it was going to do and I had to make the final decision to kick in our contingency plan that we had been talking about for years, but never had to activate.
With the Sheraton Hotel's support we moved the entire flea market inside. We normally have about 150 vendor spaces. The hotel didn't have near enough tables so I rented an additional 125 eight footers. The hotel allowed us to use all the available space in the conference area and the main lobby. On Thursday afternoon, a small but vocal group threatened to go home rather than move all their stuff inside. But they were still there Saturday! 
Moving the flea market inside worked so well that a number of people asked if we could have it inside all the time.. We have no plans to do that and I doubt that the Sheraton would put up with it on a regular basis. But we now know for sure that we can successfully move inside in case of rain.
Our Thursday forums included interesting talks by Barker Edwards, Robert Lozier and AWA President Geoff Bourne. We didn't have a big estate collection to spice up our auction this year but the preview room was full and there were lots of choice items offered and some great deals to be had. The Old Equipment Contest had some fine entries.
Attendance was down a little. But you'd never know it by what you saw at the event. The flea market areas were full of people, the forums were well attended and the auction was standing room only. A lot of attendees said they thought it was our best show ever. As my old friend and AWA founder Bruce Kelly liked to say, "a good time was had by all."
I'm very sad to report that on Monday morning after the show we got a call telling us that Ernie Hite, our good friend, founding member of the CC-AWA, and dedicated meet worker, had died of a heart attack. He had been tied up at work and unable to attend the meet for the first time in 30 years. He had the attack while at work Sunday night.. Ernie will be missed. He leaves behind his wife Susan, a son and a young daughter.
Details for all of our events can be found on the club web page at www.cc-awa.org, or contact me directly if you have any questions.
Ron Lawrence, W4RON PO Box 3015, Matthews, NC 28106-3015 704-289-1166 home, 704-516-8819 cell e-mail W4RON@carolina.rr.com
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