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Museum April 09 -- Report of Bruce D. Roloson, W2BDR, Curator
We are in the process of setting up six test and repair stations at our newly established Museum Work Center. These will be used by Museum staff for maintenance of equipment in our collections and also by members for maintenance of personal equipment. But we are going to need some help finding test equipment for our the new work stations. Right now, we are looking for signal generators like the HP 8640B and multimeters like the Fluke 45. A more complete list of equipment needs is being developed and will be announced in this column.
In March we will be photographing and documenting all telegraph Keys and related equipment for our database. Once this process is completed, this equipment will be packed and stored in preparation for the move to the new Museum complex. Stay Tuned! The total project will be covered in the next Journal.
We are trying to solve a “Who Made It and What Is It?" mystery and you M*A*S*H fans can help! In several episodes Radar has an electronic thing on the shelf behind his desk. It looks like a radio of some sort. In a season three episode Hawkeye, Margaret and Klinger go to a forward aid station to help out. Radar uses this thing as a transceiver to talk to Klinger at the Station.
One of the many other episodes of M*A*S*H in which this device can be seen is "Sons and Bowling" (tenth season). It's clearly visible behind Hawkeye in several shots. Our Military experts are unable to identify it and think it might be just a mockup put together as a prop. What do you think? Send me a note with your ideas and, if you have one, include a photo of a unit that is like it. And if you have this piece of equipment and would like to donate it, we'd be interested.
I look forward to seeing some of you at our Spring Meeting.
Report of Ron Roach, W2FUI, Operations Manager
Our volunteers continue to make significant progress at the museum complex. At the Annex, Duncan Brown and Roy Wildermuth rehabilitated the TMC SBT 1 kilowatt transmitter and the GPR-92 receiver console. These were removed from the last cold war bunker installation in Newark, NY, several years ago. Paired with the Millen station, the TMC was on the air for the AM QSO party in late February.
At the media/conference center (Building 2), Bob Hobday and Warren Wiedemann continue the enormous task of adding print and photograph entries into the database. At the end of February, Bob had completed 5,000 photographs and Warren had entered 10,000 print items. Reorganization of our growing collection of print items, allowing room on the shelves for future additions, has been facilitated by Lynn Bisha, Jeff Miller and Tom Ely.
Jim Kresuzer successfully bid on a map case to accommodate out-sized photographs, and the existing file cabinets were re-arranged to provide for its installation in the media area.
At the Work Center (Building 3), Gib Buckbee, our contractor-in-residence, completed the installation of the second furnace and, with the help of Jack Roubie and Dan Waterstraat, finished the installation of insulation. The future test and repair station area was dry-walled by the same contractor who previously dry-walled the stairway at the media center.
Ron Walker added multiple telephone extension jacks throughout the building and our resident painters, Jack and Dan, continue to work on painting the entire interior of the building. Recent purchases of two work benches, a 12 foot high moveable stairway, two additional map cases and nearly 900 parts bins, anticipate the transfer and expansion of the parts room and a new rug has been installed in the office area of the building.
The 2009 Spring Meet (see "AWA News") will once again be at the Bloomfield Elementary school and will provide an opportunity for AWA members and the general public to view the progress the volunteers have made on several fronts since last year. Mark your calendars for May 2!
Bruce Roloson, Curator
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Here are the
items recently donated to the AWA Museum. On behalf or the AWA,
I would like to thank
each and everyone who has taken the time
to help preserve our radio heritage with their generosity.
| David Glick | Sony TC-645 reel-to-reel with AKG D200E mics |
| Charles Wells | Myers Audion with RAO-3 socket, Cleartron CT-19 |
| Sherwood Snyder, W2KFU | FCC Reports, hardbound, Vol 1– 4, 144/28 transverter, Sony 1R-81 in presentation case. |
| Anthony Buscaglia, K2NV |
Teletype Corp model 19 complete with wood grain desk, ST-3 demodulator, Heath HD-3030 CW/RTTY demodulator |
| Dan Waterstraat, W2DEW | Gonset GPP-1 phone patch |
| Chet Koziol, W2IHX | WLS tube tester (promotional item tied to WLS Chicago) |
| Will Herzog, K2LB | Large collection of documentation; books, catalogs, data sheets, etc. |
| David Bart | Book collection, 27 titles; wireless, radio, television, more.. |
| Jay Hamill, KC2TCM | National HRO Jr with power supply and coil box, Heath V7A6 |
| Mark Weiskopf | Hickok 800A tube tester, HP-200AB audio generator, Heath V7A, more... |
| Compiled by Ed Gable, K2MP, Museum Registrar |
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