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Museums with Broadcast Gear

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xmtrland

If you were planning a road trip to visit museums with either a vintage broadcast transmitter or a good display of vintage broadcast gear. Where would you go...what state, city. In Seattle we have the Museum of Communications which has KRKO's original western electric transmitter.
http://museumofcommunications.org/?attachment_id=203

Where is the must see museums for broadcast gear? How many could I fit into a week road trip? Obviously I need to compile a list to evaluate any future travel. I'm hoping others will share where these museums are.

I know there is The Museum of Broadcast Communication in Chicago, where are the lesser know museums with some good old vintage broadcast gear.
 
If you make it to South Georgia, I can take you to a private collection, plus a few operation stations that have some museum quality pieces.
 
The House of Broadcasting museum in Scottsdale, Arizona has some vintage gear, as does the lobby of the Walter Cronkite Journalism School at Arizona State University in downtown Phoenix.
 
Deutsches Museum, Munich. Along with everything else you can think of. E.G. Roentgen's original x-ray tube and Rudolf Diesel's diesel.

Depressing to see an Ampex 1000 & a Norelco PC-60 in a museum when I worked with both in Cleveland 40 years ago.
 
If you go to the Pavek, Ask to see their spark gap transmtter run.

Biggest issue I have with the Pavek is that they have equipment on the floor that I ma still using ;D
 
I visited the Pavek in 2010, and four DX groups are meeting in the Twin Cities this August with the Pavek as the showpiece of the gathering. Incredible place, especially the Atwater Kent collection.
 
Don't they have one at the old site of the VOA xmtr/antenna site in Greensboro (Greenville?) NC? I thought I read about it in RW, but now can't find it.
 
Not Greenville - two of the VOA sites there are still in active use and the third is now an environmental research center for East Carolina University. (And not Greensboro, either...that's inland, hundreds of miles west of coastal Greenville.)

It's the old VOA site at Bethany, Ohio, north of Cincinnati, that's been converted into a public park that also includes a museum in the former transmitter hall.
 
TV history buffs (I'm one of them) have an exceptional receiver collection at the Early Television Foundation Museum in Hilliard. Ohio. There's some broadcast equipment on display. Their website and online 'collection' is authoritative and extensive, too. There's a yearly ETF convention which attracts many old-school engineers.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/foundation.html
 
ironbear said:
TV history buffs (I'm one of them) have an exceptional receiver collection at the Early Television Foundation Museum in Hilliard. Ohio. There's some broadcast equipment on display. Their website and online 'collection' is authoritative and extensive, too. There's a yearly ETF convention which attracts many old-school engineers.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/foundation.html
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I'll add the Museum of Broadcast Technology, which is under construction in Woonsocket, RI. Here's the website:

http://www.wmbt.org/
 
Scott Fybush said:
Not Greenville - two of the VOA sites there are still in active use and the third is now an environmental research center for East Carolina University. (And not Greensboro, either...that's inland, hundreds of miles west of coastal Greenville.)

It's the old VOA site at Bethany, Ohio, north of Cincinnati, that's been converted into a public park that also includes a museum in the former transmitter hall.
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The VOA transmitter site near Beargrass, Site A, is not operational. There are no plans to reopen A Site and make it operational.

Only B Site, near Blackjack, is in operation.

C Site, the old receiver site, has been closed for many years, and as pointed out, turned over the ECU.
 
The Greenville History Museum in Greenville, Mississippi, has a display upstairs of equipment from earlier local stations. I specifically recall the General Electric board which I trained on as a kid from the former WJPR, and the Gates President console from WDDT.

I have pictures on my facebook page in the "Old Radio Stuff" photo album. Look me up (Rob Grayson) and check the pictures. Lots of stuff from Memphis radio, etc.
 
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