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HistoryThe Society was founded at a conference arranged by the Association of Swedish Radio Amateurs and held at the Industrial Museum, Gothenburg, on December 3, 1983.The initiators were all radio amateurs: Ulf Sjödén/SM6CVE, Erik Bergsten/SM6DGR and Bo Stjernberg/SM6ASD. They contacted Ingegerd Särlvik, Ph.D., the then Head of the Industrial Museum, other radio amateurs from the counties of Western Sweden, Edgar Tobiasson, the then Head of Swedish Telecom Radio, Western Region, and Veine Andersson, Master of Engineering, of the Tateco company. They all reacted positively to the proposal to found a historical amateur radio society - they were, after all, with few exceptions, radio amateurs! Erik Bergsten was chosen as the first chairman of the Society, whose name was to be the Historical Amateur Radio Society of Western Sweden.
The Society's activities were established within and integrated with the Industrial Museum. The
items of radio equipment collected by the members were put on display there. Later, however, faced
with the threat of closure of the Museum, the Society went in search of premises where it would be
able to display, under its own management, the technology of the radio equipment
collected over several years. As a result, the Society was allowed to rent the unused Design
Office of the old Götaverken Shipyard.
 Götaverkens design office. We have got this picture from Varvshistoriska Föreningen in Gothenburg |