VOA Bethany / WLWO / WLW

[KD6VXI]

Took the tour of Bethany today.  Have tons of pics.  Will be uploading g them over the next few days.  Here's the first tranche.

I have to say, WC8VOA has a pretty nice station.  Been upgraded the last couple years to all new equipment.

They still have lots of old Collins and associated ham equipment on display but the entire station is all new.

Sad.  Lol.

--Shane
WP2ASS/ ex KD6VXI

Edit:  I tried to upload pics, said most where too big.  Some are 200 megapixel.

Here's the link to my Google drive.

Enjoy!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KfQMaWJMGDZwN2zrLrF747wA-FXou0NB

[KD6VXI]

I've added most to the Google drive.  I tried to keep the images in the best format I could.

Some are 200 megapixel big.

Enjoy.

--Shane
WP2ASS/ ex KD6VXI

[W7TFO]

Good work getting those shots, many thanks!

73DG

[KD6VXI]

No problem getting the pics and sharing.

I did try to get a pic of the modulation transformer and plate transformers, etc but they where removed in the decommissioned.  Pesky PCB labels and such.

Will be posting some pics of today's jaunt later:  Went to Wright Patterson today and spent the day at the Airport Force Museum.  Saw the whole thing but my phone died before I ended the trip.

Interestingly Air Force One for Truman has an RCA radio set in it.  Big label says 'MODIFIED FOR SSB SERVICE BY RADIO CORP OF AMERICA'.

There was also an AF1 with a beautiful Hallicrafter receiver built in to the President's area.

Unfortunately I didn't get any pics of that plane.

--Shane
WP2ASS / ex KD6VXI

[Sam KS2AM]

There was also an AF1 with a beautiful Hallicrafter receiver built in to the President's area.
--Shane
WP2ASS / ex KD6VXI

Never been to the museum but I assume that plane was SAM 26000, i.e. the 707 that Kennedy used as AF1.

There was a discussion of that receiver on AF1 here http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=19709.msg139923#msg139923 and in Electric Radio,

[W3GMS]

Took the tour of Bethany today.  Have tons of pics.  Will be uploading g them over the next few days.  Here's the first tranche.
I have to say, WC8VOA has a pretty nice station.  Been upgraded the last couple years to all new equipment.
They still have lots of old Collins and associated ham equipment on display but the entire station is all new.
Sad.  Lol.
--Shane
WP2ASS/ ex KD6VXI
Edit:  I tried to upload pics, said most where too big.  Some are 200 megapixel.
Here's the link to my Google drive.
Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KfQMaWJMGDZwN2zrLrF747wA-FXou0NB

The Antique Wireless Museum in East Bloomfield, NY acquired the VOA transmitter and studio equipment from Delano California a few years back.  Here is a video that our President, Mr. Robert Hobday presented on getting the transmitter across the Country.   The transmitter and studio are now on display at the AWA Museum.

Start at the 17 minute mark on the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHhPrRUJMQk

73, Joe-W3GMS

[KD6VXI]

I missed the Delano decommission by a couple weeks.  I was pretty bummed.

I've been run off Delano by the local LEO a couple times.  Kern County Sherrif Office.  Not much they could do, we never went beyond locked or closed gates.  My son did enter the guard shack there, it was open and pretty empty, sans the last guard that left his COBRA paperwork.  It was over a decade old, but still had his personal info on it!  We trashed that.

The farmer to the south came out after my son and I where on his access road.  That got us about 100 feet from one of the curtain towers.

He told me if I wanted to I could use his road 'to hook up' to the tower to use it after he found out I was a ham. 

Never did find out whom I would ask for access to the feedlines though.




As to the receiver in question above.  No, it wasn't in Kennedys plane.  Thebone I am referring to was a flat face instead of rotary indicators for frequency.  Looks like a SX101 or SX140.

We have training classes through the week.  I fly back to the island Saturday.  I have over 650 pics snapped of the museum and my phone died in the 2nd to last room.....  with the missiles and air force one , etc.

Hopefully we get out around noon on Friday.  If so, I'll be up there Friday to finish my photos.  As it is, I have almost every single gle place and every single associated menu board type display.

Lots of receivers and transmitters, anything related to radio I tried to catch.

I have to pay for more Google storage.  I ended up  competent filling my Google drive with pics.

Hundreds of gig of pics and videos.  Should be cool if I do get to finish.  I hope I get to.

Edit.  It was on Columbine II. Eisenhower plane.


https://www.reddit.com/r/shortwave/comments/c3r08w/hallicrafters_radio_from_eisenhowers_columbine_ii/

--Shanr
WP2ASS / ex KD6VXI

[KD6VXI]

Columbine III not Columbine II

Someone else said it was an SX62

--Shane
Wp2ass / ex KD6VXI

[K6JEK]

I did a walk through of the Kennedy 707. It was an SX-62. I had one at the time.

[KD6VXI]

I did a walk through of the Kennedy 707. It was an SX-62. I had one at the time.

I was told I should be done with training g about noon tomorrow.

If that's true I should be able to go back to Dayton and finish my picture tour. 

No promises.  I understand Dayton Airahow is this weekend, I may not ever see Dayton in time.

But it seems there was an SX62 on a couple planes.  I really want some pictures of the one that says "Modified for Single Sideband by Radio Corp of America"....  That was a neat unit.

--Shane
WP2ASS  / ex KD6VXI