Uncle Bob's Radios
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Uncle Bob’s Radios

Behind the books stood the machines. More than sixty receivers, transmitters, and test sets, from WWII Navy ships and bomber bays to the finest amateur stations ever sold, kept, studied, and loved by one man in one basement.

60+radios kept
1930s–70seras on the shelves
2,000 Whis flagship's power
1basement that held it all
Uncle Bob's shack: five shelves of radios and test equipment, floor to ceiling
THE SHACK WALL, AS FOUND
As found

Walk into the shack

No staging, no polish: these are the shelves the way he left them. An ARRL map on the wall, chalk numbers on the cabinets, QST magazines by the yard.

73, Uncle Bob

Every dial still turns

A man who owned five wartime Navy receivers, the Gold Dust Twins, and a 2-kilowatt Hurricane was not decorating. He was keeping history in working order, one recapped chassis at a time. The family keeps it now.

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