Press release from the Asheville Radio Museum:
The Asheville Radio Museum, as featured on NPR and in The Laurel magazine, presents Radio Wizardry on Saturdays, 1 PM to 3 PM during June – August, starting June 1. Admission is free. Families are welcome – especially young budding scientists. A fascinating time is guaranteed for all! Visitors can register for a beautiful radio dial clock (winner chosen at summer’s end).
What travels at 186,000 miles per second? What enables us to receive photos of Pluto’s moon, seven billion miles away? What makes, cell phones, GPS, wireless internet routers, and many other modern conveniences work? Radio waves! Learn about this wizardry at the radio museum.
Visitors can hear old time radio shows, see and listen to 1920s radios, learn about Asheville’s first radio station in 1927 (WWNC), learn to spell their names in Morse Code, see World War II bomber radios and a German propaganda radio. There’s also a 1910 Edison phonograph to hear, plus dozens of amateur radios, CB radios, scanner radios and so much more.
The museum is located on the A B Tech campus in the Elm Building, room 315. Free parking in the nearby college garage. Directions are on www.avlradiomuseum.org. For group tours (church, school etc.) use the contact form near the directions.
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