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Wireless Worlds: Live Amateur Radio Station Event

GB5SWW will be on-the-air from the Wireless Worlds exhibition at
Sheffield Institute of Arts on April 12-13

As part of the Wireless Worlds exhibition at Sheffield Institute of
Arts, Esther Johnson will host a special live amateur radio station
manned by Sheffield Amateur Radio Club on April 12-13, 2013. The
special radio callsign for this event is: GB5SWW (which stands for
Sheffield Wireless Worlds). Visiting amateur radio operators are
invited to bring their own QSL card for display in the gallery.

In addition, there will be screenings at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm on both
days of Tune In, Johnson’s 16mm film portrait of the fascinating world
of amateur radio operators, better known as Hams. Dealing with the
politics of space and social communication, Tune In blends documentary
and abstract audio to reflect on the use of DIY radio equipment in an
ever-changing modern world, in the centenary year of the Radio Society
of Great Britain.

The Mezzanine gallery hosts photography taken during the production of
Tune In, and a selection of vintage amateur radio QSL cards – uniquely
designed cards that are exchanged as a result of two-way
radio-communication between two amateur radio stations/operators.

The main gallery features Analogue Kingdom , a poetic moving-image
portrait of Gerald Wells, founder and curator of the British Vintage
Wireless and Television Museum . Wells’ stole his first radio, a
Belmont , in 1943 at the age of thirteen. He was immediately sent to
an ‘approved’ school, whose psychiatrist diagnosed ‘an obsession’ with
wireless and electricity – an obsession that continues today.

The house Wells was born in and still inhabits is now home to over
1,500 wireless objects and 45,000 valves - the UK ’s largest such
collection. Analogue Kingdom reveals the charm of Wells’ world, where
radio relics and their attendant stories fill every nook and cranny.
With the digital switchover, Wells’ analogue collection is a reminder
of the magic that may be lost. In addition to Analogue Kingdom , there
is a selection of photography taken by Johnson at the British Vintage
Wireless and Television Museum and a cabinet of items of analogue
wireless technology.

Further information at
http://www.shu.ac.uk/sia/gallery/events/event.html?id=91