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Welcome to The Schenectady Antique Radio Club webpage. We are a dedicated group of people who collect,restore,and preserve
all aspects of antique radio. Our club meeting place now has changed. The club in March is going to meet on
Essex St in Albany at number 32 Essex Street which there is a food pantry in the same building. Essex Street is
off of Watervliet Ave and Central Avenue. Here is the url for a area map of the clubs location; http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Albany&state=NY&address=32+Essex+St We
have a outdoor fleamarket in the parking lot at 12:30pm and our meetings inside at 2:00pm. Club dues are $3.00 a year.
For more info please contact Dave Ellers by phone at 518-328-9043 or by email dadellers at yahoo.com. If you live here in the Capitol district and have an interest in antique radio stop by or give a call on the phone. We would
be glad to see or hear from you. Take a look around and enjoy the site.
Click on the above old Bullhorn to hear a Morse code signal. Morse code was the
first type of radio signal sent by wireless!
Above is a QSL card from WGY WRGB former General Electric's Schenectady area radio and tv station.
1940 Motorola catlin plastic radio. This a Motorola model 50XC-1 table
set. Catlin plastic sets are highly desireable to the collectors. This radio is on Ebay and has reached a bid of $7000. That
is the most expensive Catlin plastic radio I've seen yet on Ebay!
Here is a nice glass set from the mid 1920's. This set belongs to Ron Lawrence a member of
the Carolina chapter of the AWA. (Antique Wireless Asscociation) Many people built thier own radios back in the early
1920's. Many builders used glass for the cabinets to show of the components of thier sets. The tubes in this set are Gold
colored glass globe Super Airline tubes type 201A's. This is a nice added touch by Ron to this radio. The tuner on the left
side is a Cockaday tuner. I have an article on this tuner and radio circuit in a Lefax radio magizine article dated April
1923. Glass sets are the premium sets of the 1920 battery sets.
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