New Jersey Antique Radio Club

05/29/2026

After a brief hiatus, we are once again posting a Throwback Thursday video. This one features a presentation member Lary Rubins gave to our club in 1995. This one is a discussion on High Fidelity.

https://youtu.be/IaG12N8PtV8

Enjoy!

Member Lary Rubins gives the club member a lecture on High Fidelity.

04/24/2026

It's Throwback Thursday again! This particular video was recorded on VHS in 2001, and features member Ted Sonderman giving membership a presentation on some troubleshooting approaches to antique radio using something a bit unconventional - a Spectrum Analyzer! It's very informative. Enjoy!

NJARC Tech Talk 2001-1 Part 2- Fixing Radios with a Spectrum Analyzer

04/16/2026

Today is Wonderful News Wednesday!

Today, we hit 3,005 hours viewed within 365 days on our YouTube channel, making us eligible for monetization rights! Hopefully soon your consumption of our content will send some change our way!

Thank you all for watching and helping us get to this milestone. Keep watching and we eill keep posting. Now, on to the 4K mark!

04/09/2026

You know it's Thursday when the NJARC posts a Throwback Thursday video!

This is a recording of club Member Rob Flory giving the membership a presentation and demonstration on how to use an oscilloscope to troubleshoot radio circuitry.

https://youtu.be/XMrW96a4uUM

Several years later, the NJARC held a joint presentation event with Alan Wolke that we called our Oscilloscope Clinic. That video is also available on our YouTube Channel!

NJARC Club Member Rob Flory gives the club a demonstration and explanation on how to use an oscilloscope to troubleshoot faults in vintage radios. This conc...

04/03/2026

Hi folks, another Thursday is here, and another Throwback video is warranted!

This week's topic is 1940s Television (just because radio is in our club name doesn't mean we don't like moving pictures!). Member John Ruccolo gave our club a presentation in November of 2001 on 1940s television and what made these earlier sets different from sets that will come later (and no, we don't mean because they are in black and white!)

John not only orates about the technological differences, but demonstrates some (mostly) working sets from his personal collection, with some helping hands from other club members who know how to whip these older sets into shape.

I hope you all enjoy the presentation!

This Tech Talk features club member John Ruccolo giving us a technical presentation and demonstration on early television - most specifically 1940s Electrost...

04/01/2026

To all our members, followers and fans, thank you all for your continued support. We are doing what we can to continue to share our efforts on preserving the history and knowledge of the origins of radio and related technology.

We don't advertise for donations or hound for subscribers in our YouTube videos. You all get enough of that elsewhere on the web!

With that said, we are going to ask you for a favor, and we promise we will keep these requests rare!

Our YouTube channel, youtube.com/njarc, is very close to hitting the monetization threshold, we are less than 200 hours or watched material away! If you haven't been watching lately, have been saving videos for later, etc, now would be a great time for you to do that, as your support at this time will impact us more positively than usual!

We are a non-profit and getting the income from YouTube, no matter how much it will be, will really help us out.

We are going to continue to share our content as long as we can, but if you were wondering how to give back, this is an easy way.

Ok, now that that is over, enjoy this pretty picture of the WLW antenna one of our members took in December.

03/28/2026

Early Television Museum online Meeting, tonight Saturday March 28, 2026.

Mike Molnar¡s presentation which was postponed from last month, will take place tonight at 8:00 PM EDT on Zoom.

Mike will take apart and examine an 8 inch tube model Handy Japanese TV to see what is inside

Information:

early television

03/27/2026

It's time for another Throwback Thursday video!

NJARC Technical Coordinator Al Klase (N3FRQ) gives the club a presentation on the history of the Alexanderson Alternator and his efforts to listen to the Grimeton Radiotelegraphy Station in Sweden for one of the celebratory broadcasts.

The presentation was originally recorded on VHS in 1998.

NJARC Technical Coordinator Al Klase (N3FRQ) gives the club a presentation on the history of the Alexanderson Alternator and his efforts to listen to the Gri...

03/23/2026

Hi Folks! If you couldn't make our Swap Meet two weekends ago, or if you missed last week's post, NJARC member Bob "RadioWild" Bennett collaborated with us to make a recap of the event to entice you to come to future events. See the event calendar at NJARC.org for future event listings!

Club Member Bob "RadioWild" Bennett shares with us his recap of the Spring Swap Meet Hamfest that we held on March 15th, 2026. Bob's videos are the next bes...