NJ Antique Radio Club HomePage

The New Jersey Antique Radio Club meets the second Friday of each month in Freehold, NJ, at the Grace Lutheran Church, located one block East of Route 9 on Main Street (Rt 537) -at the corner of- Park Avenue (Old Rt 33). There is a small Radio Swap Meet before and after the meetings which start promptly at 7:30 p.m. Every month there is a radio collecting presentation by one of our members. Everyone is welcome to attend and join.

• For additional club information call: John Dilks @ 609-927-3873
  - Between 6 p.m to 9 p.m. Eastern Time only!

Meeting Notice, click here -
 

   

Member Webpage Feature! (new 10-10-2000) Ben Tongue's Crystal Radio Set System Design, Measurement and Improvement. Click here to visit his outstanding web page.

   

Check out Our Radio History Page_2 It's all about early radio.  Read articles from AWA's Old Timer's Bulletin and other early radio magazines and books. Visit the AWA Museum in Bloomfield, NY with your computer. Right here, click here!

   

Subscribe to the NJARC Mailing List.  Click here! Updated 01-30-2002. This is a great way to send just one Email to many club members, without knowing their email addresses.

 

    

Updated 9-9-1999 WFUV is the Public Radio Station of Fordham University The Big Broadcast Now you can download Rich Conaty's 3-hour Radio Show "The Big Broadcast" every week from the NJARC web page! The Big Boadcast is all 1920s and '30s big band music, from original recordings. Conaty must have the greatest collection of vintage recordings, ever. (New files are uploaded each Monday or Tuesday.) For more information about Rich Conaty and the Big Broadcast click here.

   

   

Due to many requests for this information, below,
I have included these Free advertisements for your benefit. 
Please support these Companies and local Radio Club Members.

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Jerry Simkin - Bookseller  609-660-8160 Specializing in Telegraphy, Wireless, Radio, Television, Electricity & Related Technology Selected stock at Second Hand Prose 8 Main Street, Keyport, NJ, 07735 732-335-9090 Open Tuesday to Saturday 11-5, Sunday 11-4, Closed Mondays Email: gsimkin@monmouth.com  NJARC Radio Club Member

    

Updated 5/10/1999 Now up and running!  To find out more click here. Instrumnental in starting the club are: Al Jones, Bob Deuel, Ludwell Sibley, Philip Rheinschild Jim Cross, Bro. Patrick Dowd, Jerry Vanicek and John Walker.  All are well-known collectors and historians.


  

Sign up for an Ol' Radio E-Mail Reflector (the easy way) Click Here! AWA Membership is not required.

   

Our new    Club Project.     NJARC is a Member Organization of InfoAge. It is a group of cooperating non-profit organizations dedicated to the preservation and education of information age technologies. With a combined membership of nearly 4000 professionals this gives InfoAge a rich source of expertise and ideas.     Their home is in the Belmar Marconi Station - 1914 - which became the U.S. Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratory - 1941, and now is the InfoAge Headquarters - 2000. Please visit Information Age, Click here.

NJARC member Al Klase checks out the radios for sale at one of our swap meets.

AWA and NJARC Member John Dilks presents a program on "Amateur Radio History" to the South Jersey Radio Association at their meeting in Pennsauken, NJ. The presentation was well accepted by more than fifty members of the 80 year-old club.                                                         Click here for an additional Photo.

Visit an old time ham radio station, as it would have looked in 1960. Click here.   More information on this to follow.

New Book: Tube: The Invention of Television  click here     This is the best historical book to come out in a long time. Hence, I am publishing their News Release for your information.     Tube: The Invention of Television is technicial and historical in nature, conversationally written and easy to understand. Almost every page is noted and the bibliography they used is truly impressive. This book is a must for every collector and historian of radio and television and anyone else interested in the industry. -ED.

Big Dream, Small Screen Click here for Review by Ludwell Sibley (new 2-9-97) A new PBS documentary about the Invention of Television will be airing on the PBS show: American Experience - Watch for Reruns, it's worth it!

Check out the New Book on Tubes! "Tube Lore" by NJARC member Ludwell Sibley Everything you wanted to know about tubes Things you can't find in a tube manual.

"The Telegraph Office" by Neal McEwen

	Telegraph Key Collecting, What's It All About? Vol 1, Issue 1.	Nov. 25, 1996
	Various Types of Telegraph Instruments, Part I Vol 1, Issue 2.	Dec. 2, 1996
	Various Types of Telegraph Instruments, Part II Vol 1, Issue 3.	Dec. 9, 1996
	An Unusual Artifact from the TIDEWATER WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMPANY Vol 1, Issue 4.	Jan. 1, 1997
	Issue 5 coming soon!

Historical Interest:

Date	Club Articles and Events
May 24, 1997	B-17 Aircraft Radios demonstrated at the April 1997 meeting by Al Klase, N3FRQ
May 24, 1997	What is a Chopper and how was it used ? Read about a new addition to John Dilks' collection of early Ham Radio transmitters. (Photos added June 3.)
Results of April 26, 1997	Downingtown Estate Auction Results Composed of Battery Sets, Cathederal, Tombstones, Crystal, Console, Table-top, AK-Breadboard radios, Amateur Radio Receivers and Transmitters, Microphones, Headsets, Tubes, Service Data, Old Advertising, Ephemera and more.... See the Auction Results and Photos here   5-24-97
Feb. 28 1997	Auction Results from the Havertown Auction on Feb. 15, 1997
Nov. 22, 1996	How to Remagnetize old Headphones - from our November 1996 meeting. by Tom Provost and Gary D'Amico
Oct. 31, 1996	Philadelphia: Atwater Kent Time Capsule Opened Oct. 25th, 1996 by John Dilks, K2TQN
Oct. 31, 1996	Fall Swap Meet andWith Auction Results - Saturday October 5, 1996 - The Swap Meet is now history. All had a good time. Check the Auction Results.
Oct. 15, 1996	Our October '96 Meeting Program on Horn Speakers with Photos
Sep. 16, 1996	AWA - Rochester, The Flea-Market Report - Click here for John Dilks' Report Now with Fleamarket Photo!
Sep. 23, 1996	Exclusive! - AWA Auction Report by Ludwell Sibley Click here for the ReportNow with Auction Photo!
Sep. 23, 1996	Elgin - Our President Went There. - Click here to read about his adventure.
Sep. 24, 1996	The NJARC August Exhibit, by Phil Vourtsis, at the Monmouth Library with Photos

And from our Member's Collections

• Click here to visit Al Klase's Web Pages: Crystal Sets and Boat Anchors.  10/4/98
• Click here to see some of John Dilks' collection.
• Click here to see some of George Shields' collection.

Wanted: Early Radio Books and Magazines. These will be used to add early articles and information to this page. If you have any to sell or trade; please contact the Webmaster, John Dilks, K2TQN, at the mailbox below -or- by USmail at: 125 Warf Road, Egg Harbor Twp., NJ 08234-8501.