The Carolina Antenna SPRING 2004 VOLUME #10 ISSUE #1 CAROLINAS CHAPTER OF THE ANTIQUE WIRELESS ASSOCIATION ISSUE # 10 SPRING 2004 VOLUME #1 the main topics to be discussed is PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE updating our bylaws. Our original bylaws were written in 1994. In 1999 when we were incorporated our lawyer took those bylaws and reworked them to fit the require- ments for incorporation. I feel that after ten years we know a lot more about what it takes to run our club and it’s time to give the bylaws another look. I don’t anticipate any By Ron Lawrence, KC4YOY radical changes, we will submit the CC-AWA President proposed changes to the membership for their input. The Spring Meet in the Carolinas is just around the corner. By now all of As always, ALL club meetings you should have received your including Board of Directors conference brochure in the mail. If meetings are open to all members. If you did not, please let me know and you’re interested I highly encourage I’ll get one to you. Last week I you to attend this meeting. mailed almost 650 brochures to club members and past conference To help me keep up with all the attendees. I hope by now everyone things going on in the club I decided has their reservations made and to appoint a club calendar secretary. their days off approved by their Stephen Brown has offered to take employers. on this job. It will be his job to keep a running club calendar at least two We have some great programs again years ahead and to send reminders this year along with all the normal to all concerned about upcoming good stuff that goes on at the club events, etc. Charlotte Conference. We had a great time again at the CC- We will schedule a CC-AWA Board AWA Winter Swap Meet in of Directors meeting soon. One of Columbia SC. As expected with it 2 being in January, it was a little cool, Be a early bird!! but not bad at all. I would guess that there were between 25 and 30 Be sure to check the CC-AWA web vendors and 50-75 shoppers. page (www.cc-awa.org) for driving instructions and meet updates. I saw a lot of interesting goodies for 28th Annual Conference sale. I picked up a Riders/RCA Chanalyst form Gerald Cromer in March 25 - 27 anticipation of the program on them Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel planned for the Spring Meet by Dr. located on I-85, Exit 33 Dennis Osbourn. Charlotte NC Meet Chairman: Ron Lawrence Richard Owens our VP brought me Meet brochure is available on-line about 8 boxes full of old issues of on the club web page QST and CQ magazine going back Spring Swap Meet into the late 50’s. A real nice addition to my radio library. May 8th NC Transportation Museum A good friend Mike Yarborough Salisbury NC W4JMY is sitting up a new PA Summer Swap Meet system for the Charlotte Conference. Several years ago Gerald Cromer July 31 sold the club a 100 watt Bogan PA McGalliard Falls Park amp, at the WBT basement clean Valdese NC out we picked up 4 nice large PA Meet Chairman: Richard Owens horns. Mike has taken all this and a Fall Swap Meet couple of rolls of cable I had, and is putting it all together so it will be October 23 ready in time for Charlotte. City Lake Park Hopefully no one will have any Jamestown NC problem hearing announcements Meet Chairman: Brad Jones this year. I look forward to seeing everyone at the Sheraton in March. FUTURE CHAROLTTE CONFERENCE DATES 2004 CC-AWA 2005 CALENDAR OF EVENTS March 24-26, 2005 Free admission 8 am till Noon. These events start 2006 early and end early. If you don’t show up until 11 am all you will March 25-27, 2006 see is everyone loading the ‘goodies’ that they bought earlier that morning. 3 primary publisher has been real CAROLINA ANTENNA sick and unable to work on the SUBMISSION SCHEDULE newsletter. She recently spent eleven days in the hospital, seven in Quarterly issues will be mailed ICU, with pneumonia. Being during the first week of: diabetic, the medicines that she had to take threw her diabetes out of January, April, July, and October. control. I am glad to say that she is home now and things are slowly The deadline for submission of returning to normal. We will try in material for each issue is the first the next few months to return to the day of month preceding the publica- published submission schedule. So, tion month, for the January issue if you have an article for the next the deadline is the first week of issue please go ahead and mail it to December, April issue, the first the appropriate person. Thanks in week of March, for the July issue, advance. the first week of June and for October, the first week of PARMAK RADIO September. By Robert Lozier PLEASE, try Not to wait until A nice radio I don’t know much the deadline to send stuff in. about…. Written articles should be sent to (But it does provide an intro to Laura Carter; photos & Want Ads a bit of radio history.) go to Barker Edwards; Tidbits & News for the "With the Collectors" Parmak Radio was a mid-west column go to Ron Lawrence. You (Kansas City, MO) manufacturer - can find contact information for Parker-McCrory these people on the inside front Manufacturing cover of each issue of the Carolina Company. I have Antenna. been told that they had a pretty good reputation in the mid and late 1930's for making rather By Barker Edwards high performance 6 & 32 Volt farm radios. I have a fine 1936 example of their 6 Volt storage battery set Well, if you looked at the previous (no model number given on the article on submission and publish- labels). It has an unusual ing schedule for the Carolina combination of a small pin driver Antenna, you will notice that this loudspeaker for the high issue is real late in getting frequencies and a moving coil published. Judy, my wife and the speaker for the bass. The schematic 4 pasted inside the cabinet appears to I have only two broadcast radios be dated 4-5-36 (printing is kind of that use just one screen grid tube. sloppy in that corner). It has a 1C6 One is a 1929 vintage Trav-Ler pentagrid converter, two 34’s in the portable that uses one Type 22 tube. IF’s, a 30 detector/AVC and then it This makes sense for a portable set gets a little strange with push-pull of the period because the circuit 30’s driving the 19 would have had more dual triode in push- than twice the voltage pull mode. gain of two stages of RF using Type 99 It uses a synchronous tubes while providing vibrator so a separate a good savings in rectifier is not filament current. required. Filtering is very extensive. The The other set I have is field coil of the a Freshman Model Q dynamic speaker measures only 8.5 of 1928 vintage. I acquired this set Ohms and is in series with all the from Bob VanSleen, of Shelby, NC tube filaments that are all just before his death. At that time I connected in parallel! This thought it a little strange that this schematic does not show the pin metal box AC set would have had driver speaker but it is certainly only one double tuned TRF stage part of the original design. using a Type 22 (I don’t think the 24-A had been released yet.). It has I'm sure that I have seen Parmak a Type 27 in the detector, Type 26 radios that go back to the mid as a first audio and a Type 71-A in 1920's at various radio meets over the output stage. He reminded me the last 30+ years. However I don't a little bit about what was going on have any literature or schematics in the American radio business at for their older products. Riders that time ... published schematics only for 1937 through 1939 models. From 1922 to 1925 manufacturers could hardly turn out enough parts I was started on this and sets to meet the line of thinking seemingly bottomless because a guy in Italy consumer demand for just obtained a radios. But into 1925, Parmak Radio for the economy went soft restoration. He and was in recession reports that the set by 1926. Manufactur- has just one Type 24 ers continued to build followed by four Type at a frantic pace but 27’s and a pair of Type sales were drying up. 45’s plus a Type 80 A large number of rectifier. companies failed in 1926 & 27 and their 5 inventories were liquidated. The surviving companies had an FROM THE GOOD IDEA abundance of parts to build the AC DEPARTMENT sets using the Type 26 & 27 tubes. Hello fellow collectors and As you may know, the radio enthusiasts: Hearken back to the technology was changing in the 2003 CC-AWA conference in 1920’s as fast as the personal Charlotte. It was during our computer business is changing requisite club meeting that we were today (who wants a 4 year old discussing how to bolster the computer today?) So the classic declining coffers of our club’s three tube regenerative set of 1922 treasury.