Short description about the Radio Museum
The Radio Museum is about radio in all its
aspects. Broadcasting is covered from the very
first crystal sets to today's "ghetto blasters".
Visitors can follow the development of maritime
radio from the early spark transmitters to
the advanced transmitting and receiving
equipment of today.
In the ham radio section you can admire the
beautiful and very skilfully built amateur
radio stations from the mid 1920s right up to
today's factory-built technical wonders. In the
measuring-instrument section, the progress of
electronics through the decades is illustrated.
Military radio systems, too, have their own section where you can wonder at
the heaviness of the antique radio equipment and feel pity for the poor
soldiers struggling to operate the generators by hand.
The development of radio communication on the civilian side is also shown:
taxi and haulage industry radio, Citizens' Band radio, maritime radio,
police radio, cellular radio and radio paging.
You will of course also find here a summary of the services that Swedish
Telecom Radio provided during the 1980s, including the Frequency Management
function.
You have access to a reference library containing books and magazines, including
electronics handbooks and magazines, some 5000 items in all.
Electronic parts and valves, from the earliest types to state-of-the-art
technology, are displayed in an informative survey of radio technology achievements
through the decades.
The Museum is managed by the Historical Radio Society of Western Sweden.
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