[Milsurplus] National Electronics Museum

[B. Smith]

The museum was excellent, I used to visit it during "lunch hour" when 
attending my FAA Flight Instructor School next door at the Hotel. Twice 
I was given a personal tour by one of our own Joe Meagher W3KJT who was 
on the staff.
K4CHE


On 3/5/2024 10:47 PM, Tom B wrote:
>
> The National Electronics Museum is not dead.  It has moved to a 
> smaller location at Hunt Valley, just north of Baltimore.  They are 
> only selling things they don't need.
>
> Here is their main website.
>
> https://www.nationalelectronicsmuseum.org/
>
> Tom
>
> N3AJA
>
>
> On 3/5/2024 9:12 PM, Gene Smar via Milsurplus wrote:
>> Ray,
>>
>> I had read, maybe on a plaque on the SCR-270 itself, that that RADAR 
>> was THE unit on Opana Point on Dec 7, 1941 that detected the 
>> approaching Japanese aircraft. I'm wondering if that got moved to the 
>> new QTH. It would be a shame if it gets misplaced again.
>>
>> 73 de
>> Gene Smar AD3F
>>
>> Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 model 100 laptop
>>
>>     On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM, Ray Fantini
>>     <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
>>
>>     The National Electronics Museum was a true gem, Northrop Grumman
>>     was and may still be a major benefactor but over the last several
>>     years with Covid and everything else they have fallen on hard
>>     times. Among other things they had a complete SCR-270 radar
>>     system, examples of much of the first-generation airborne radar,
>>     tons of Electronic Warfare equipment, communications and
>>     aerospace. They were also an active museum in having at least one
>>     used electronics sale, electronic music and multiple guest
>>     lecturers annually. Due to money problems, they were forced to
>>     move to a smaller location last year, prior to that they had
>>     several sales of duplicate or other items that have been donated
>>     to the museum over the years. I have purchased lots of hardware
>>     and other artifacts over that period of time, lot of it got
>>     turned around and sold at the Hamvention, lot of it was one of a
>>     kind specialized hardware that was used in R/D and ended up
>>     parting out and using as foundations for other projects and some
>>     of it you just sit around the shop and look at like the huge
>>     General Radio Impedance bridge that I paid $20 for.
>>
>>     I will be there this weekend and know several others who will
>>     also be there. Will take some pictures but don’t know if I can do
>>     the quantity of what someone like Nick dose.
>>
>>     In the past when they do these sales, they do a open to the
>>     public event for a couple days, then bring in surplus contractors
>>     and whatever is left goes to Eastern Surplus who put almost
>>     everything on eBay so don’t think anything will be going into a
>>     dumpster.
>>
>>
>>     Ray F/KA3EKH
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