[Thursday] Voice of America Museum

[Ken Carr]

While waiting for visitors this past Saturday I made someon air contacts with our Icom 706 transceiver and OCFDantenna. The Ohio QSO party was going on. For thenon-hams in the group, a QSO partyis a ham radio event that involves making as many onair contacts as possible with hams in one particular state.Saturday was Ohio’s day.
One contact I made was with station WC8VOA. This is theVoice of America (VOA) amateur radio club. The club meets ina beautiful building that was once a headquarters for theBethany, OH VOA station (the VOA is still active but this building is no longer used by them). The building now housesthe VOA museum. It is impressive. You might want to take a lookaround their website: http://www.voamuseum.org Many of the exhibits relate to radio and TV, much as ours do.
Many of their exhibits are related toCrosley Radio which besides making radios (and cars and refrigerators and other items) had their own broadcast radio station.WLW ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLW ). WLW is still on the air.Once again, The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting website is at http://www.voamuseum.org 
For interested hams you may want to listen for WC8VOA onSept. 24. On that date the club station will be on the air as aSpecial Event Station. You will be able to contact them andget a cool QSL card! See their QRZ page for more details.
Ken Carr
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