Radio Central Photos
Dave Martens Does Some Upper Level Electrical Work
Dave Billeci & Mike Tanaka Cleaning Up The Front Garden
Keith Scott Prepares Our Staff Door For Repainting
Bart Lee, John Staples & Scott Robinson Check A Signal On SDR
New Member Edgar Checks Tubes
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Kent, Eric, (Restorer Of The Zenith 40A), And Bob
In The Alameda Afternoon Sunshine
Carl Details And Polishes Auction Radios
Jonathan Westerling And John Staples Adjusting Our 1570AM Transmitting Antenna. What? Stay Tuned For More…
Oooh… Check Out The First Of Our Radio Day Auction Radios. We Will Have Some Rare And Sought After Pieces Up For Auction This Year. Stay Tuned.
There’s Johnathan Westerling And Denny Monticelli
On The RC Roof Surveying For A New Antenna
John Staples And Joe Selkregg Work
On Our General Electric Projection Television
Willard, One Of Our Most Senior Members
Attaches Tags To Auction Radios
We have heat!! Thanks to all the members involved who helped us along this road as well as AT Weber who did the installation.
Look Up… At Our Two Brand New 40,000 BTU, (Each!), Infrared Heaters.
For Doing The Research And Choosing These Heaters
Computer History Museum’s Chief Registrar
& CHRS Member Aurora Tucker Continues
Her Radio Repair Training With Denny Monticelli.
Aurora Loves To Tinker!
Jimmy Fink Works On Our 1942 Wurlitzer Juke Box
First Of 2 Infared Heaters Being Installed In Our Great Room
It Will Be Toasty… They Are 40,000 BTUs… Each!
Getting High 🙂 That’s Steve Garaventa Up There
Under Our 16 Foot Ceiling Replacing A Work Light
Our Team Adding Items To The CHRS Collection Using The Catalogit App.
Thanks To Walt Hayden, Cynthia Edwards And Betty Cosmos
New CHRS Member, (And Jukebox Expert), Stephen Franaszek
& Rachel Lee With Our Vintage Wurlitzer
Our Hospitality Chairpersan Betty Cosmos
And Her Assistant Zoey At Our Speakers Event
Radio Central Great Room Looking Good! Getting Ready For Events
Seth Arp Polishing A Mid Century Wurlitzer 50 Record Jukebox Home Stereo
Seth Arp, Jim Fink, Dan Healy & John Staples
John Stuart & Vincent Wu Refer To Plans For The Big Project.
Mingling In Radio Central’s Basement Are Happy CHRS Members Richard Watts, Denny Monticelli, Hil Hampton, Gilles Vrignaud &
Heidi Kikawada. Gilles Is Especially Happy To
Have His Long Awaited 3″ Pilot TV.
Much Interest Was Shown Recently In Seth Arp’s Zenith Windcharger
Rainy Day Volunteer Lunch
Seth Arp Working On A Vintage Radio In The Radio Central Shop
Some Of The 30,000 Or So, tubes In Radio Central
Paul & Edith Bourbin Work In RC’s Front GardenRichard Watts’ Adjustable Chassis Jig In ActionJohn Staples Assisting Chairman Mike Adams
With Tuning In Amateur Transmissions
On His New Yaesu Ham Receiver
In Radio Central’s Back Yard
See The New NBC & CBS Network Radio Signs Above Our Control Room Window. These Are Very Nice Steel & Enamel Reproductions,
Donated To CHRS By Sam Van Zandt & A Friend. Thank You!!!
Also Donated Was A Mutual Broadcasting Network Sign. Note The RCA/NBC Ranger Chime Machine #002 And Our Zenith Walton’s Set.
Bart Lee Shows Our New SDR (Software Defined Radio)
In Communications Central.
New Antenna For SDR System Being Erected By Steve Garaventa & Mike Loper
The New Antenna In Place
Joe Selkregg Give One Of Our TVs Some TLC
Cataloging Continues With Betty Cosmos, Cynthia Edwards & Walt Hayden
John Staples & Joe Selkregg Visit With A Donor
Making A New Back For An Old Radio In The CHRS Wood Shop
Photo Session Documenting Auction Items For Radio Day 2022
CHRS Volunteers Edith & Paul Bourbin In Front Of Our Palmer Kinescope MachineAfter A Great Job Of Tending To Our Beautiful Front Garden
Richard Watts, John Staples, Gilles Vrignaud & Raj Checking Out TV Display
CHRS Great Room Ready For TV Event
Seth Continues Work On Our Rare Philips Console
Raj Tests A Tube Using Our US Government Tube Analyzer As Jimmy & Joe Observe
Seth Arp Polishes Our New DeLuxe Philips Console
It’s Very Unusual – Not Sold In The US
Denny Monticelli, Dave Billeci & John Stuart Working In W6CF
Selfie By Jon Hammond & Gilles Vrignaud At Our April 2nd, 2022 Event
Our Cataloging Crew Hard At Work
Cynthia Edwards, Betty Cosmos & Walt Hayden Register Our Artifacts
Unloading The Heavy Oak Parts Of The Booth
Keith Scott & Seth Arp Take The Door Up The Stairs
Keith & Steve Garaventa Assemble The Booth
The Back Goes On
Finished And Displaying Vintage Telephones – The Phone That Gets Installed Will Be Working
Gilles Vrignaud Makes Adjustments On Our TV Head End… That He Built!
Gilles & Steve Garaventa Adjust The TV Head End
John Staples & Raj Work On An Early TV
Dave Billeci Makes Contact Using Our W6CF Amateur Radio Station
John Stuart Gives Our NBC Chime Machine Some TLC
Denny Monticelli & Seth Arp Prepare For Our Alameda Point Event
Cataloging Continues – Walt Hayden Photographs Our Artifacts
Betty Cosmos & Cynthia Edwards On The Cataloging Team
Exciting New Donations Just Arrived
Even Bruno And Bart Are Excited
Donations Come In Almost Every Week
John Staples And Seth Arp Examine An Early TV
Consoles Being Transported To Storage
New Temporary Homes For Some Of Our Consoles
Walt Hayden & Steve Garaventa Upgrade
One Of Our Schoolhouse Lights To A Better LED
Keith Scott & Denny Monticelli
Harvest Some Fruit From Our Orange Tree
Kent Leech, Walt Hayden & Miles Steubing
Sort New Vacuum Tube Donations
Work In Progress… Radio With Pictures Coming Back To Life
It’s Springtime in February in Alameda so the weather is good for yard work. Steve Garaventa & Earl Hammers start the assembly of our new 10′ x 20′ shade structure. Our old one outlived its usefulness and was torn apart in last year’s storm.
Denny Monticelli Sands One Of Our Lunch Serving Tables
Structure Complete! Zoey & Betty Approve
Happy Lunchers Joe, Bart, Earl & Our Cook, Keith
Nice To Be Outside With Denny, Walt, Raj, Gilles & Kent
Steve, Dave, Philip And John Enjoy Lunch In The Shade
The 40′ Container That Holds
Our Other Collection Artifacts
Is Getting Organized. Yay! First Time It’s Been Done.
Dan DeRensis Lays Down Some Lacquer In The Warm Climate