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First Of 2 Infared Heaters Being Installed In Our Great Room
It Will Be Toasty… They Are 40,000 BTUs… Each!

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Getting High 🙂 That’s Steve Garaventa Up There
Under Our 16 Foot Ceiling Replacing A Work Light

3E7Ef0E0 4Eac Aad2 A8Be 40D4De6Ecf4AOur Team Adding Items To The CHRS Collection Using The Catalogit App.

Thanks To Walt Hayden, Cynthia Edwards And Betty Cosmos

 

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& Rachel Lee With Our Vintage Wurlitzer

794003A9 1B87 054E Fe37 8Dc8C2E1A8D6Our Hospitality Chairpersan Betty Cosmos
And Her Assistant Zoey At Our Speakers Event

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Radio Central Great Room Looking Good! Getting Ready For Events

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Seth Arp Polishing A Mid Century Wurlitzer 50 Record Jukebox Home Stereo

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Seth Arp, Jim Fink, Dan Healy & John Staples

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John Stuart & Vincent Wu Refer To Plans For The Big Project.
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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. 

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8D575958 8505 986B 2Ad8 4Ad37E7A17B3Much Interest Was Shown Recently In Seth Arp’s Zenith Windcharger
53Ada281 63Ba Aecd A733 3Fe1B5Be1289Dave Martens Electrifies Radio Central 

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Img 1870 2Ee85944 F31E 23Fa Bd2F 375Bfec921FaSteve Garaventa & Hil Hampton Participate In Dust Elimination

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Seth Arp Working On A Vintage Radio In The Radio Central Shop

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Heidi Kikawada And Walt Hayden Sorting, Testing and Marking
Some Of The 30,000 Or So, tubes In Radio Central

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With Tuning In Amateur Transmissions
On His New Yaesu Ham Receiver
In Radio Central’s Back Yard


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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.

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In Communications Central.

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The New Antenna In Place

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Making A New Back For An Old Radio In The CHRS Wood Shop
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Img 0420 Richard Watts, John Staples, Gilles Vrignaud & Raj Checking Out TV Display

Img 0438 CHRS Great Room Ready For TV Event

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Raj Tests A Tube Using Our US Government Tube Analyzer As Jimmy & Joe Observe

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 Seth Arp Polishes Our New DeLuxe Philips Console

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It’s Very Unusual – Not Sold In The US

Screen Shot 2022 04 28 At 9.36.39 Pm Denny Monticelli, Dave Billeci & John Stuart Working In W6CF

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Our Cataloging Crew Hard At Work
Cynthia Edwards, Betty Cosmos & Walt Hayden Register Our Artifacts

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Gilles Vrignaud Makes Adjustments On Our TV Head End… That He Built!

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John Stuart Gives Our NBC Chime Machine Some TLC

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Denny Monticelli & Seth Arp Prepare For Our Alameda Point Event


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Cataloging Continues – Walt Hayden Photographs Our Artifacts

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Betty Cosmos & Cynthia Edwards On The Cataloging Team

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Even Bruno And Bart Are Excited

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AnchorNew Temporary Homes For Some Of Our Consoles

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Walt Hayden & Steve Garaventa Upgrade
One Of Our Schoolhouse Lights To A Better LED

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Keith Scott & Denny Monticelli
Harvest Some Fruit From Our Orange Tree

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Kent Leech, Walt Hayden & Miles Steubing
Sort New Vacuum Tube Donations

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Work In Progress… Radio With Pictures Coming Back To Life

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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. 

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Denny Monticelli Sands One Of Our Lunch Serving Tables

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Structure Complete! Zoey & Betty Approve

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Happy Lunchers Joe, Bart, Earl & Our Cook, Keith

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Nice To Be Outside With Denny, Walt, Raj, Gilles & Kent 

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Steve, Dave, Philip And John Enjoy Lunch In The Shade

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The 40′ Container That Holds
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Our Other Collection Artifacts
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Is Getting Organized. Yay! First Time It’s Been Done.

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Dan DeRensis Lays Down Some Lacquer In The Warm Climate

 

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