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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mbroome@infosec.exchange ("🎤🧹 (KR4ECS)") wrote:

@llorenzin and I were in Asheville over the weekend and were on campus at AB Tech for an event on Saturday when we saw a sign for the Asheville Radio Museum.

Following the signs through the building and up to the 3rd floor, we found a lovely museum with working tube radios including the centerpiece Zenith Stratosphere (of which there are only ~40 left in existence). They have a Bluetooth to AM transmitter setup in the museum room so they can play music the radios will pick up, and it sounded amazing!

They also have a lot of ham (and other) radio gear and a full ham radio station setup in the corner that operates as W4AFM.

Wonderful little museum, and both the docents we talked to were great! It was fairly random that we were there, the museum was open, and we had the time to stop in. I highly recommend going to the Asheville Radio Museum if you're in town.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Museum

Beautiful restored Zenith Stratosphere console radio (of which there are only ~40 left in existence). There is a white ceramic cat sitting upright in the cutout in front of the speakers.
Left side of the museum with racks of radio and computer equipment.
Right side of the museum with racks of radio equipment, mostly older table top and floor model receivers, some with vacuum tubes prominently displayed. There are also a few people in the picture.
Shelves of older equipment from the beginning of the radio era. Across the top shelves are gramophone horns.