We are the Antique Wireless Association in Bloomfield, NY.  Now in our 60th year, the Antique Wireless Association and its 2,000 international members support the Antique Wireless Museum dedicated to preserve and share the history of technology used to communicate and entertain from the first telegram to today’s wireless text messaging. These technologies are central to our way of life and their rich history must be preserved and shared.  Imagine our world without the ability to communicate.

CAN YOU HEAR ME???    CAN ANYONE HEAR ME???

BUT, WHAT IF THERE WERE NO MEANS OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS??

It is almost impossible to imagine our lives without the ability to communicate electronically.  Today, our lives have merged into the fast lane of communication by texting, instant messaging, e-mail, cell phones, and even regular telephones.  We spend hours watching the television and listening to the radio to be entertained and informed and to just get away from it all.   We view history being made across the globe in real time.  What we take for granted, perhaps we are addicted to, is world-wide communications and entertainment at our finger tips.

What if a relatively few brilliant men had not had dreams of what the future could hold? What if they had not developed new theories, had not tinkered in their labs, had not persevered when others said it would not work, had not risked their fortunes?   Imagine our lives today if the best we could hope for is that our letters would come in a couple of weeks or months.

Although obviously highly refined, the communication technologies we enjoy and depend on have their roots in the development of the telegraph by Samuel Morse in 1844, the development of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, and the radio dreams, theories and hard work of such men as Heinrich Hertz, Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Lee DeForest, John Fleming, Edwin Armstrong and many others.  As direct descendents of radio’s development, television and today’s cellular telephone both use radio

Please visit the AWA web site at www antiquewireless.org for more information or contact the AWA by E-mail at N2EVG[A*T]ARRL.COM and plan a visit to the incredible Antique Wireless Museum located at 6925 Routes 5 &20 in Bloomfield, New York 14469.