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Visited on Sunday with Jacques ZS6JPS and Renato ZS6REN and operated as ZS6IEE for a while as part of Museums of the Air.
Great display- the HP35 calculator was of particular interest since I had one at Wits in 1974.
Must arrange for my son Hugh ZS6HMB to visit. My daughter's 3rd year engineering at UCT and is keen to visit when she's next back. She would love to see inside the observatory....
73 Jim ZS6JMB
I lost a good chunk of time browsing through your site - its great!
I signed up as a member as well - I have recently acquired a Johnson Viking Ranger that will need attention no doubt, and I am trusting that the AWASA will be the place to get the knowledge from.
Be well all.
Regards
Geoffrey
ZR6XZ
Hi Great website.
I have an EH Scott Allwave 23 which I regretfully wish to donate to your Association.
It is intact and complete except for the speaker so requires a PM speaker modification as per the EH Scott website as well as of course, a good re-capping.
The set is in the Johannesburg area.
Thank You
Keith
Wow, this is a great website and thank you for the downloads. I have subscribed to your newsletter. I would like to mention your website in our monthly guywire newsletter for the Regina amateur radio association, the local club here if possible. Love this site and all the information that is available.
73
from Canada Lyle VE5EE
Many thanks Lyle, your comments are greatly appreciated! Please feel free to mention our website in your newsletter - please send us a copy to forward to our members. Great to hear from you, please do keep in touch! 73 from all of us at AWASA ZS0AWA
Good Day All,
I came across your website while browsing about a radio I have. I have been in the game of building towers and antennas of all sorts. I presently still build sites for Multichoice and am close to retiring. I hope I can be of assistance and also learn from members of the forum.
Kindest Regards
Willy Pittner
Great site. Reminds me of all the old radios I have had in the past and in particular the period after WW2. Names like AR88, HRO, Marconi, Hallicrafters etc come to mind. Still into older stuff - but not that old. A Yaesu FRG-7 and a Uniden 2020 for instance!
Active on 40m with call sign ZS1NDY
Hi Andy,
GREAT to hear from you. I once visited you to purchase some oldies, such as that AR88! Good to hear that you still have a collection,
and that you got the callsign - looking forward to a QSO in the near future! Please join us for our Saturday net on 40m, see details on
our home page
73
Hi Guys
This is a great site! Well planned and well maintained.
Regards
Gerhard
Hi Gerhard.
Many thanks for the kind comments! Feel free to join our mailing list for the monthly newsletter under the newsletters tab.
Kind Regards,
Greetings from the Antique Wireless Assn. in Bloomfield, NY. I enjoyed visiting your site and learning more about ZS0AWA. It sounds like we have a lot in common. I look forward to hearing and having a QSO with your club station at the museum.
Warm regards, 73.
Ed Gable K2MP/W2AN
Curator Emeritus, Antique Wireless Museum
www.antiquewireless.org
Good day Ed,
We greatly appreciate that you checked in on us, and for the kind comments you left. Definitely a lot in common yes! We look forward to a QSO, keep an eye on our site for info on when the club station at the museum is complete and on air!
73
I come to your website via ZS6JPS. Beautiful website!!
Now we will still try make contact in AM with our military equipment, that would be the cherry on the cake!! We have only a site on yahoo groups under "MilitaryRadioSurplusNet"
73 de ON4BL Leon
Leon, Bonjour et Bienvenue. Welcome to the AWA of SA website. AM on military equipment may be possible mid year as I am QRV as F/ZS6TF/P from 24th June to 21st September. I have just joined your Military Radio Surplus Net on Yahoo groups to keep up with your activities.
73
Richard
ZS6TF
Historian AWA of SA
from "Sunny Bryanston"
Have a happy day
Good evening - I was just surfing around on the Internet and found your website by accident - a most interesting site from several aspects. Firstly the section on old receivers - I had quite a few of them so it recalled some fond memories. What I found more remarkable is that I was the last astronomer to live at 18a Gill Street in what is now SAIEE house!. I was employed by the then Republic Observatory and around 1970 to 1973 my wife and I and children lived in the double story mansion. At that time I was not a radio amateur -only becoming one about 1974 or so but a lot of amateur radio was done as I used to track artificial earth satellites by means of their radio transmissions so had a variety of antennas in the spacious yard as well as a large 137 Mhz array on the roof of what was then the main Observatory offices which I used for reception of weather satellite pictures. In addition two of the rooms in 18a Gill Street were full of radio equipment - I even burnt one of the floors with a hot soldering iron (by accident)! Anyway nice to see the house being put to good use - I miss those days!
Best wishes, Greg Roberts ZS1BI.
Hi Greg.
This is most interesting! We would love for you to come around once the museum is up and running. The SAIEE has built new offices on the premises, and allocated the entire house to become a museum dedicated to communication. What a beautiful place, I can just imagine how pleasurable it must have been to reside there! The first room contains telephone equipment, and we are now busy installing the radio room in what used to be the kitchen. Richard ZS6TF is slaving away getting the SAIEE collection sorted, categorized, and ready for display. He is also in the process of installing a beam antenna on the hill between the house and the observatory, and we are planning on running the museum shack on select days. More details on the museum shack to be found here, as well as links to some photos of our show-day in the radio room... the photos of the premises should bring some good memories. We are so glad you came across our site and made contact, and look forward to welcoming you back to your old residence! Please let us know when you visit Jo'burg, and feel free to sign up for our newsletter to receive updates on the museum, and hope you'll continue to check back on the site for forthcoming info.
I listened to your AM group chat this morning on a Bush Type EU 23 radio which must be somewhere in the region of 60 years old, Great quality and tone from this old set.
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