The new guy won the radio. Dell KFONSP got the FTM-500. It was a great show, nice weather, with 105 guys signing in, maybe a few more who didn’t wait and brushed past the sign-in sheet. Joel KEOQGD ran the coffee shop (taking ‘donations’ rather than fixed prices), and allll tables sold, even the one […]

Outside of town on the Saturday Free Flea in January it was minus 16 or so, but inside the garage with the gas grill going it was above freezing, and at the end of the morning a balmy 75 deg F according to the garage door opener time and temperature display. Neither the twenty dollar […]

Our favourite vendor, Les WBOKFK of D&L Antenna, just bought an old 1939 radio made by RCA. He says: I bought a 1939 RCA K-130 in perfect condition today 100 bucks! Last time I saw one was 2nd grade November 1963. The teacher came to all of us weeping she had us listen to the […]

In case you missed the October program at the Omaha club meeting put on by Joe KONEB on Pirate radio and other oddities on HF (there were only 20 guys who showed up) here’s a great site for such info suggested by SWIARC member Rob NOSNW: HFunderground.com . Joe NEB has been doing a program […]

No one brought any radios to the Lake Manawa gathering on Saturday 09.09 but Joel KOOQL (One Quart Low) brought his father’s 1951 Mercury ‘woody’ station wagon and let us look around. The chrome in front, headlight rings and such, appear either like new or re-chromed. Wood looks really good, but has it had an […]