The Carolina Antenna SUMMER 2004 VOLUME #10 ISSUE #2 CAROLINAS CHAPTER OF THE ANTIQUE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION ISSUE # 10 SUMMER 2004 VOLUME #2 senting club bank account is going PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE down slowly, and the one showing club expenses is climbing, slowly. BY RON The problem is, if something is not LAWRENCE, done soon the two lines are going to KC4YOY cross and then we're going to have a CC-AWA problem. PRESIDENT Something we have done since we formed the club is to give all dues paying members free admission to I'm sitting at the computer writing the Annual Charlotte Conference. this on Sunday morning the day While we only have about 45 mem- after the CC-AWA Annual Confer- bers, if all of them took advantage ence. What a great 3 days, when I of this it would mean $450 of lost got home Saturday afternoon I was income. So this benefit is most as tired as I think I have ever been, likely going to end with this years but it was fun and we will do it meet. It was also suggested that again. I'm not going to do a full clubs at $10 are too cheap. The report here since we've been prom- Board of Directors will be discuss- ised a double page spread in the ing this at our next meeting, along next OTB for a full meet report. with updating our By-Laws. On Thursday afternoon we had our Several vendors talked to me Friday annual CC-AWA membership meet- and Saturday of the meet saying ing, the main topic of discussion that we should go up on the vendor was club finances. The cost of doing space rental, there are two sides to antique radio club "business" is this, one is that the vendors are going up every year. With the making money off of the event and advances of PC and computerizing should be willing to pay more, the our clubs database we can generate other side is it's the vendors that graphs to help make it easy to see most of the attendees come to see what's going on. The graph shows and if vendor space rental is too two converging lines, the one repre- much the vendors won't be there. 2 This is going to require a lot of re- search. CC-AWA EVENT SCHEDULE The bottom line is if you enjoy what the club does, hosts a world class All CC-AWA swap meets listed annual conference, publish a really below take place on Saturday morn- nice newsletter, hosts four mini/ ings from 8 AM to 12 noon. swap meets each year, and also Admission is always free. publish a web page, the money to do it is going to have to come from 2004 somewhere. FALL SWAP MEET The next event of the CC-AWA October 23, 2004 calendar is our Spring Swap Meet at City Lake Park Spencer Shops, the North Carolina Jamestown NC Transportation Museum, on Satur- CHRISTMAS PARTY day May 8th. As always admission is December 18, 2004 FREE, Vendor set-up is only $5. Remember, these are Saturday 2005 morning events that start early, between 7 & 8 AM and are all done WINTER SWAP MEET before noon. Don't show up at 11 January 29, 2005 o'clock and expect to see anything Caughman Park except folks packing up. That's just Columbia SC the way these things work. You can find detailed driving directions to 29TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE this and info on all CC-AWA events March 24-26, 2005 by visiting our web page at - Charlotte NC http://www.cc-awa.org. SUMMER SWAP MEET I'm like to thank Judy and Barker May 7, 2005 Edwards for a heroic effort to Valdese NC produce that latest issue of our newsletter, "The Carolina Antenna". FALL SWAP MEET Judy has been very sick and has October 22, 2005 spent weeks in the hospital in the Jamestown NC last several months, but she insisted on working on the newsletter while CHRISTMAS PARTY still confined to the bed, and in- December 17, 2005 structing Barker on how to get the printing done properly. Judy and 2006 Barker along with Laura Carter 30TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE make up our crack newsletter com- March 25-27, 2006 mittee. Thanks for a GREAT job Charlotte NC guys. 3 EDITOR’S NOTE BARKER EDWARDS In the last two issues of the Carolina Antenna we have been running an article about Major Howard Things kicked off at 12noon on Armstrong testifying in front of the Thursday with CC-AWA member Senate Interstate Commerce Kirk Cline hosting a tube collectors Committee in 1943. So far we have forum, this was followed with Jim run the first two of the three-part Barnard showing and telling all series. I am sorry to say that we about his passion for collecting have been unable to obtain the last Zenith transistor radios. Jim had on and third part of the series. We will display 50 Zenith transistor sets. make every effort to find it and bring it to you in a future issue. CHARLOTTE SPRING MEET REPORT The 28th Annual "Spring Meet in Next came long time CC-AWA the Carolinas", the annual confer- member Dr. Dennis Osborne and a ence of the Carolinas Chapter of the very interesting talk about the RCA/ Antique Wireless Association took Riders Chanalyst, what Dennis place Thursday, Saturday March 25 claims to be "the greatest advance -26-27, 2004 at the Sheraton ever made in the history of servicing Charlotte Airport Hotel. This was instruments", and he had the data the tenth year at the Sheraton for to back it up. the Charlotte Conference and it continues to be an outstanding site for a radio meet. Again this year the "radio meets gods" smiled on us and we had fantastic spring weather. There were 329 registered attendees not including spouses and other family members. Next came an interesting panel discussion on "Preservation vs. There were 141 flea market spaces Restoration" lead by Paul Farmer. sold. The Friday afternoon Old There were many interesting ques- Equipment Auction had 110 lots tions, answers & opinions passed with just over $6,000.00 in total back and forth with the audience. sales. Again this year this was a pure auction in that all the items submitted were by conference at- tendees, there were no large estate lots in the auction. 4 Wrapping up the afternoon pro- Conference before, our "LeManns gram session was the CC-AWA Start" requires that EVERYONE annual membership meeting. One must be out of the flea market area of the main topics discussed were before anyone is allowed to enter. the rising costs of running a radio There is no buying, selling or club and hosting a "national level" displaying of merchandise before radio conference. The members in the 8AM start time. attendance agreed that it would be necessary to increase both dues and As always the first few hours things conference fees in the future. moved at a furious pace, there were lots of radios seen being carried Following the close of the member- past the registration tent on the way ship meeting we boarded the hotel to their new owners cars and trucks. shuttle bus and several private cars to journey to the Open Kitchen for a fine dinner of Italian food. The flea market is followed by the Old Equipment Auction in the after- noon and the annual banquette on Friday evening, which is wrapped up with an open house in the Con- test room to view the entries in the The first day of the conference was Old Equipment Contest and wrapped up with a great talk by Dr. socialize for a while. Harold Cones about his new books on Zenith and the process of doing the research for the books. Dr. Cones really had everyone in the palm of his hand for almost 2 hours. Very interesting. Saturday morning the great spring time weather continued for the second flea market session. On Saturday we also have our special Friday morning was a bright and Saturday only admission of just $5 sunny Carolina spring day and there and "Radio Rescue" where the were several hundred radio collec- public is encouraged to bring their tors waiting patiently for our 8AM old radios out for our experts to traditional "LeManns Start". In case identify and offer their opinions as you haven’t attended the Charlotte (Continued on back outside cover) 5 While living with Francis Barraud THE STORY OF NIPPER in Liverpool, Nipper discovered the phonograph, in Francis’s photo- graphic studio. Nipper would listen attentively to the old phonograph, and Francis "often noticed how puz- zled he was to make out where the voice came from". This scene must have been indelibly printed in BY BARKER EDWARDS Francis's brain, for it was three years after Nipper died that he com- Nipper is one of the best-known mitted it to canvas. In 1898 Barraud advertising trademarks that has completed the painting of Nipper ever been produced. He got the and registered it February 11, 1899 name Nipper because of his ten- as "Dog looking at and listening to a dency to nip the backs of visitors' Phonograph". Francis then decided ankles. Though not a thoroughbred, to rename the painting "His Nipper had plenty of bull terrier Master's Voice" and tried to exhibit and a trace of fox terrier in him. He it at the Royal Academy, but was never hesitated to take on another turned down.