----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Carns" <[email protected]> To: "boatanchor" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 3:13:40 AM Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Opportunity to help - AM at it's finest
You can also get to the Indiegogo VOA AWA Project page by going to their home page: http://www.indiegogo.com/ and using their search engine with key words VOA and AWA in the search field. Sorry about the URL fold job.. The reflector did a number on me. Bill Bill Carns, N7OTQ (Trustee K0CXX) Past President, Collins Collectors Association Founding Board, Collins Radio Heritage Group Editor, Signal Magazine Wimberley, TX 512 618 2762 (Cell) 512 847 7010 (Home) -----Original Message----- From: Boatanchors [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Carns Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 2:01 AM To: 'boatanchor' Subject: [Boatanchors] Opportunity to help - AM at it's finest We wanted to let all of you know that the Collins Collectors Association, in alliance with the Antique Wireless Association, has formed the Collins Radio Heritage Group. In May of this year, after making a (what we considered a long shot) proposal to the government to have them donate one 22 ton Model 821A-1 Collins Radio 250 KW AM (That's 1 megawatt PEP) HF Autotune Shortwave transmitter from the (to be demolished) Delano California Voice of America station, we were awarded the transmitter. We had saved it, it seemed. All we had to do was get it out of the facility in 2 weeks from the time we were notified. Well, a team of CCA, AWA and retired Collins Radio engineers did it. 12 people - 2 weeks and we did it. The transmitter, as well as the entire 20 foot wide "U" shaped Analog control board, has been packed up, trucked to the AWA museum in Bloomfield NY, and stored there. NOW, we have one year from last June to get it on display in the museum, or we could lose it. Why did we do this? Not only did we feel like the technology was worth saving and putting on display, but we have a plan... A plan to use it, and other technology from Collins, to leverage some dynamite STEM program plans. We are going to tout this, the VOA story, and other technology from Collins like their Gemini, Mercury and Apollo moon comm gear, as well as their amateur radio line, to do free download apps for the kids smart phones and iPads or Kindles. This will present them with fun technology puzzles and rewards that expose them to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Maybe, just maybe, we will have some statistical significant impact on the educational direction of our kids and thus the competitiveness of our country. You can help. We hope you will help. The expansion of the AWA museum to house and display this monster and the VOA / Collins Radio display is costing us just over $400,000. We have already raised about $150,000. You can read more about this on the AWA website or the Collins Radio Heritage Group Website listed below. Just looking at that transmitter is worth the look. The PA tubes weigh about 100 pounds each. The plate transformer comes in at about 6000 pounds. Please note: You can help us.. Every small to large amount helps. We have started a IndieGoGo fund raising effort and it is up and running. We ask you to consider the future impact of what we are doing and go to (this is where you can help): https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/awa-museum-voice-of-america-250-kw-statio n-display Read and Consider. There is not a lot of room on Indiegogo for background info so also go to: Bill, Here is the link on TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/AWA-Museum-VoA-250-kW-Station 73, John, K2TQN http://www.collinsradio.org/821A/ on the Collins Collectors Association http://www.collinsradioheritagegroup.org/?page_id=37 on the Collins Radio Heritage Group website or http://www.antiquewireless.org/voa-delano-station.html on the AWA website This is a worthy effort where we all can make an impact. This is a chance to make your hobby help in more ways than can be counted here.. We are going to generate some - maybe a lot - of new hams along the way, you can bet on that.. Take a look. As you can see from the proposal, the extraction plan, the success, as well as the budget and effort so far, we are deadly serious about making it all happen. Regards, and Happy Holidays... Join us, won't you and let's give some kid a present of a new exciting future that he, or she, does not know about yet. Bill Carns, N7OTQ (Trustee K0CXX) Past President, Collins Collectors Association Founding Board, Collins Radio Heritage Group Editor, Signal Magazine Wimberley, TX 512 618 2762 (Cell) 512 847 7010 (Home) _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors _______________________________________________ Boatanchors mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
