BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ted Bryan R L Barnett Open Seat Barker Edwards Robert Lozier Ernie Hite Stephen Brown OFFICERS Ron Lawrence - Pres. Richard Owens - V-Pres. Clare Owens Treasurer/Secretary |
Carolinas Chapter of the Antique Wireless Association Board of Directors & Officers |
The CC-AWA Board of Directors (BoD) are elected by the membership. Elections are held in the fall of odd number years. They serve 2 year terms. The BoD then appoints the officers in January of the following year. The officers also serve 2 year terms. The BoD and the Officers then make up the Executive Committee which is responsible for the operation of the club. |
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Bios of Board of Directors members in their own words Ted Bryan age 72. Lived in Charlotte since 1969. Built first crystal set, which was a Christmas present, at age 9. None of my relatives were interested in or worked in electronics. A ham radio operator moved next door, in 1942, and introduced me to radio. He was the radio maintance person for the city police and fire department, and the engineer for the local radio station. This led me to begin work as a radio/TV repairman, after high school, and going back into this profession after the Army. Got my first ham license in 1957, call K5IDG. Became a broadcast engineer, in 1957, at KNET, Palestine, Texas, 50 miles from my home town of Tyler. Was in broadcast engineering as Director of Engineering Suburban Radio Group, Belmont, NC, and Chief Engineer for stations in Miami, Florida, Belmont, and WAME and WBT, Charlotte, from which I retired in 2000. Started collecting 1930's consoles and table models, from relatives, in 1957. Also kept 2 personal ham receivers and obtained several more given to me by fellow hams. Began collecting 1920s and 1930s sets after attending a Carolinas AWA meet at the Farmers Market in Monroe, NC. R.L. Barnett, Stanley, NC Age is 60, My wife and I just celebrated our 40th year together. Have been working in machine shops for 42 years. I mostly collect battery sets from the 20's and my main area of interest has gradually become free standing cone speakers of the 20's. Past CC-AWA Vise-President. Barker Edwards, Clayton, NC Profession: I am an Electrical Engineer. I worked for Carolina Power & Light Company for 36 years before I retired recently. For first 28 years I worked in their substation maintenance department providing support to the maintenance crews on the CP&L system, and the last 8 years I was the engineer over their transformer & major power equipment repair shop. After retiring from CP&L, I recently went to work for Southeastern Transformer Company in Dunn, NC as their Field Service Manager. I am setting up a maintenance group for maintaining substation equipment for our customers. Areas of interest in old radios: My interest is in the early years of radio up through the early thirties. I collect mainly battery sets, but I also like the early AC sets. My first set was an Atwater Kent Model 55 that I found in the basement of my father's drug store. I started collecting old radios when I was in the 8th grade. I also like antique cars and steam engines. The old cars that my wife and I own date from 1911 to 1934. Also a friend of mine and I own a 1922 steam tractor. Ernie Hite, Rock Hill, SC Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering; Clemson University, 1973 Registered Professional Engineer in the states of North Carolina and South Carolina Profession (active): Manager, Electrical Engineering; Catawba Nuclear Station Licensed Amateur Radio Operator: WB4KFL Age: 54 Interests in old radios: Anything 1924 or earlier that is rare, unique, or one-of-a-kind. Other Hobbies: My 8 - year old daughter, Guitar, Mandolin, Chess, Piano, Old Pinball Machine Restoration, and Hunting Long - Time member of AWA and CC - AWA Stephen C. Brown, Age 44, married with 4 kids. I am a geologist with Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd., in Charlotte, North Carolina. I am one of the very rare antique Radio collectors who have no electronics background. I grew up with a father who collected and restored antique cars. I share my father's love of antiques. Dad started buying a few 1930s consoles in the late 1980s. We were in an antique shop in Micanopy, Florida in 1989 when I found a copy of Greenwood's "Vintage Radios". I saw a Radiola III-A with the exposed tubes and knew there was no way to ever find one of these odd things out of Frankenstein's laboratory. I have been hooked on early 1920s and pre-broadcast radio ever since. |
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