2010 Charlotte Conferenc
Event Schedule
         ~ Thursday, March 25, 2010 ~

Items for the regular Friday auction may be checked in when ever the auction preview room is open

  9:00AM - Special Tube Collectors Association event
               
                There will be several talks on tube history, special handouts, door prize drawings, tube                            related displays, and some informal tube-trading.
                TCA President Ludwell Sibley will be here from Oregon, he will give a talk on some recent                      tube discoveries.
                Other presentations are still being confirmed.
               This special event is free and open to anyone interested, it will be over in time for the
                Kickoff Luncheon.

10:00AM - Registration desk opens in hotel lobby

11:30AM - Kickoff Luncheon  in the Sheraton Lobby

1:00PM - Afternoon Forums




Forums Scehduled
Most forums will last 20 minutes to 1 hour, with about 15 minutes in between each.


Reginald A. Fessenden, The real story...  by James O'Neal











Wireless North Pole, the Adventures of Don Mix... by John Dilks K2TQN















              



100 years of the Radio Club of America and E.H. Armstrong... by Felicia Kreuzer











Radiola - The Golden Age of RCA 1919-1929 By Eric P. Wenaas











AWA Rochester Conference Q&A by Roy Wildermuth W3RLW AWA Conference Chairman





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4:00PM - CC-AWA Annual Members meeting

6:00PM - Auction Preview

7:00pm - The Ernie Hite Collection estate auction



       
      ~ Friday, March 26th. 2010 ~

7:00am - Registration Tent opens at entrance to Flea Market.

8:00am - Flea Market opens for trading all day. With our now famous and much imitated,
                "LeMans Start"


10:00am - Check-in Equipment for Auction & Contest until 1pm

  1:00pm - Old Equipment Auction

  7:30pm - Banquet & Reception

  8:30pm - Contest Room open for viewing of contest entries

   ~ Saturday, March 27th, 2010 ~
   
                              >>> Flea Market open all day <<<
   
           NOTE: Special "Saturday ONLY" admission is FREE
             

  7:00am - Registration Tent opens

  9:00am - "Radio Rescue" check-in.
               
                Last call for "Old Equipment Contest" check-ins.

                Vintage Amateur Radio Forum, hosted by Gary Carter
               
10:00am - Contest Room closed for judging.

11:00am - "Radio Rescue" end of meet auction.

1:00pm - Annual CC-AWA Members Luncheon with contest award review

2:00pm - Contest Room open for viewing awards.

3:00pm -  Remove Contest entries







                      2010 Conference closes  
             See ya'll in 2011

While doing research in 2006 for an article commemorating the 100th  anniversary of the fabled 1906 Christmas Eve broadcast by Reginald Fessenden, author James O'Neal discovered both inconsistences and a lack of contemporary documentation. He published his findings in October 2006, but has continued his research, hoping to find evidence to support the Fessenden story. He will be presenting his latest information on the topic.


Imagine for a minute you are a young 21 year old ham living in Connecticut with your parents. You have recently completed your schooling and are thinking about a career in radio. Self-taught, you are able to build or troubleshoot any radio circuit; you have honed your Morse skills and are one of the top radio operators around, well known by your peers. So what are you going to do? It is early winter 1923. You receive an invitation from Hiram Percy Maxim to apply for the position of radio operator on an expedition to the North Pole.

John has written the popular Old Radio Column in QST for 10 years now.  This is one of his most requested talks, loaded with original photos taken by Don Mix and Captain Donald MacMillan during their one year there. Life was hard for Mix and crew, and exciting!  The story is taken from the daily journal written by Don Mix.

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Eric P. Wenaas will be talking about the research that went into writing his fantastic book on the first 10 years of RCA.


Roy will talk about the 2010 AWA Rochester Conference and take questions from the audience.
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