Transmitter display at BMFA Buckminster
Posted: 17 Jun 2022, 17:48
I didn't know which category this really fits in, announcements? events? some new category?
Either way, if any of you visit BMFA Buckminster, please visit the reception room, as there's now a fantastic display of vintage engines, various kits from KK, Veron, Mercury etc. And to do my bit I've loaned them 60 odd vintage radio sets from the '50s through to the early '80s.
The radios are from my "reserve collection", they're ones I have duplicates of, so if anything should happen to them, I've still got at least one of them. They range from 1950s ED ground-based sets, later ED and REP sets, RCS S/C, reeds and propo, ABC, Controlaire, MacGregor and Futaba S/C sets, Remcon, F&M Matador Orbit and OS reeds, Graupner Variophon, Fleet, Controlaire and Citizenship GG sets, then the common 1970s propo sets such as Futaba, Skyleader, Kraft, Macgregor, Horizon, World Engines, Micron, RCM&E FM, OS, Remcon, Sanwa, Waltron, Graupner, Swan, Staveley and Sprengbrook. I know they don't look as "vintage" but I also included a Futaba J series (in my view the first "modern" set) and a JR Apex Computer (first mass-produced computer radio with LCD and menu switches). There would have been Flight Link sets, but I sold them to Stuart Mackay, a Simprop set that I sold and a MacGregor GG set but swapped it for a Gallatrol!
There are a couple of cabinet shelves that don't really work, so will be adding a few additions to fill the shelves up. And the description labels were done by a volunteer and I think could have been a little more discreet, so I'll be replacing them as well.
In addition to this, Shaun should be lending them some of his demo rigs and allegedly doing some talks to fit in with the BMFA 100 year celebrations - watch this space!!
Either way, if any of you visit BMFA Buckminster, please visit the reception room, as there's now a fantastic display of vintage engines, various kits from KK, Veron, Mercury etc. And to do my bit I've loaned them 60 odd vintage radio sets from the '50s through to the early '80s.
The radios are from my "reserve collection", they're ones I have duplicates of, so if anything should happen to them, I've still got at least one of them. They range from 1950s ED ground-based sets, later ED and REP sets, RCS S/C, reeds and propo, ABC, Controlaire, MacGregor and Futaba S/C sets, Remcon, F&M Matador Orbit and OS reeds, Graupner Variophon, Fleet, Controlaire and Citizenship GG sets, then the common 1970s propo sets such as Futaba, Skyleader, Kraft, Macgregor, Horizon, World Engines, Micron, RCM&E FM, OS, Remcon, Sanwa, Waltron, Graupner, Swan, Staveley and Sprengbrook. I know they don't look as "vintage" but I also included a Futaba J series (in my view the first "modern" set) and a JR Apex Computer (first mass-produced computer radio with LCD and menu switches). There would have been Flight Link sets, but I sold them to Stuart Mackay, a Simprop set that I sold and a MacGregor GG set but swapped it for a Gallatrol!
There are a couple of cabinet shelves that don't really work, so will be adding a few additions to fill the shelves up. And the description labels were done by a volunteer and I think could have been a little more discreet, so I'll be replacing them as well.
In addition to this, Shaun should be lending them some of his demo rigs and allegedly doing some talks to fit in with the BMFA 100 year celebrations - watch this space!!