“Museum Quality” - a Visit to the Orkney Wireless Museum, GB2OWM

Even on a non-radio vacation, a dedicated ham can find something radio-related to occupy at least a little bit of time…

HY CHANTZ

The Orkney Islands are a remote and fabled archipelago of more than 70 islands and fewer than 25,000 people situated off the northern coast of Scotland. In addition to breathtaking scenery and deep history – and a 2-meter repeater - among the islands’ amazing attractions is an extensive, well-curated, and compact radio museum (Photo A), with station GB2OWM – for Orkney Wireless Museum (Photo B). The museum, located in a small and picturesque stone building, features in its dense but accessible layout hundreds of radios and artifacts, depicting all aspects of the radio art from the earliest days to television, transistors and cell phones (Photo C). As is often the case, the history of the Orkney Islands is an intertwined one of romance, ocean waves and radio waves, and particular…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2023

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