AntiqueRadioCharlotte

Antique Radio Charlotte 2012

Thursday, Friday & Saturday

March 22-23-24

~ ~ ~ Hosted by the Carolinas Chapter of the Antique Wireless Association ~ ~ ~

Since our first meet in 1979, the Charlotte antique radio conference has grown to become one of the largest antique radio meets in the US.

In 2010 we had attendees from 26 states and 4 foreign countries.

We'll have two other groups joining us in 2012, if you remember in 2010 the

"TCA", The Tube Collectors Association had a tube collectors forum on Thursday morning,

they'll be doing the same thing again this year and hopefully this'll be the start of

bi-annual meetings here for them.

A special treat this year for our Friday after dinner entertainment

we will have the

Legendary WBT Briarhoppers

This group was first founded in 1934

and have been entertaining people all over the world ever since.

Again this year we'll have all the meals as last year,

starting with the "Kickoff Luncheon" Thursday at noon, our new soup and sandwich buffet for dinner Thursday evening, breakfast and lunch will be available on the hotel food cart in the registration tent Friday, the Banquet Friday evening, breakfast again from the food cart Saturday morning, and ending up with the Conference Wrap-Up luncheon

early Saturday afternoon.

There will be almost 3 full days of activities starting with our Program / Forums on Thursday afternoon and evening, our giant flea market on Friday morning followed that afternoon by our Old Equipment Auction.

The flea market continues on Saturday when we welcome the public with FREE admission.

Late Saturday morning we'll have our famous "Radio Rescue" end of meet auction with bargains aplenty.

In an effort to encourage the flea market vendors to stay open longer on Saturday

morning when the general public might attend we're going to have

a special door prize just for flea market vendors.

Any flea market vendor that is still set up and open for business at 12noon on

Saturday will be eligible to win

$500 IN CASH.

Door prize tickets will be handed out at 12noon to any vendor that's still

open for business, then we'll draw the winning ticket, the winner

will receive 5 crisp new $100 dollar bills.

Saturday morning will also include the judging and awarding of prizes for entries in our Old Equipment Contest.

Again this year everyone that pays registration for this conference

receives a one year membership in the Carolinas Chapter of the AWA.

Our conference site, the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel has been acclaimed by many

as the finest hotel in the radio collecting hobby.

The staff at the Sheraton bend over backwards to make sure everything goes as good as possible for our event. You only have to look back to 2009 with a week of heavy rain

to see what the folks at the Sheraton will do for us.

We WILL NOT BE RAINED OUT !

In the event of really bad weather, we can and will move the entire flea market inside.

We look forward to seeing you

at the conference in March 2012

If you have any questions please contact Ron Lawrence W4RON, Conference Chairman

704-289-1166 or w4ron@carolina.rr.com

This page was last updated: January 27, 2012

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A Special Event this year we will host a conference within a conference. The first event of this type ever held in the US.

Charlotte International Cryptologic Symposium.

This is a group of collectors and historians of crypto equipment. You might remember seeing our friend Dr. Jim Oram here with his WW2 German Enigma code machine. This is the type of equipment they're interested in, except not just German enigma machines, but anything used to encode and decode messages some going all the way back to Roman time.

The Crypto Conference will take place in the Jr. Ballroom.

Folks here for the Crypto meeting will be expected to pay registeration (admission) just like everyone else. So one conference registration will cover both events.

The tables in the crypto room are for both display of selling.

Folks there just for display will get table space free, those there

to sell will be expected to pay for tables just like antique radio

flea market vendors, ie $30 per table in advance, $35 at the door.

Additional tables are $20 each. And the same rule applies

for crypto vendors as antique radio vendors,

NO SELLING BEFORE 8AM FRIDAY.

A Special Event for all conference attendees will be a showing

on Thursday evening of the video 'Dayton Codebreakers'

with special guest speaker Debbie 'Desch' Anderson

Debbie is the daughter of Joe Desch who designed the

US Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe.