The Hammond Museum of Radio got its start when museum founder Fred Hammond
began collecting early radio and wireless artifacts at the age of 16. The first public
display of his collection was in a small building at the rear of his College Street home
that originally housed his ham station. This photo was taken about 1960.

When in the early '70s, Hammond Manufacturing Company built a new plant on Guelph's
Curtis Road, Fred made sure a 4,000 square foot area was reserved to house the
'Hammond Museum of Radio'. Shortly before Fred's passing in 1999, a complete new
and larger facility at the Hammond Manufacturing Company's new expansion at the South
Transformer Plant became the current home for the Museum.

The new Museum is now home to hundreds of receivers and transmitters dating from the
spark era up to and including National's first solid state HRO500. Over the years the
Museum has evolved to become one of North America's premiere wireless museums.

The above photo was taken during a tour of the Curtis Road Museum when Bob Scott
now VE3WW, Sandie Hardie (formerly VE3EHS). The young boy is Colin VE3UED
son of Brian Clark VE3ULQ.

It was with deep sadness that on November 7th, 1999 we learned of the passing of museum founder
Fred Hammond VE3HC.

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The Hammond Museum of Radio hosts one of the largest operational collections
of Collins Radio equipment anywhere. With Collins building less than 100 of its
30K stations,this fully operational Collins 30K is a rare find.

Kept in pristine condition, the station frequently takes to the air with the same
bold signal it produced the day it left the Collins factory.

The 30K featured a 4-125 modulated with a pair of EIMAC 75T's to produce a
comfortable half Kilowatt. If you look close, you can see the glow from the
4-125 just below the center of the three tuning controls. The museum features the
ultimate in stations for AM operation on 80 and 160 metres.

The largest Collins station features a pair of Collins KW-1 Transmitters Serial #59
and 147 each operating with it's own matching 75A4 Receivers. The top rack unit
contains the modulation indicators for each station all of which are in perfect
working condition.

The KW-1 transmitters loaf along at the legal limit with a pair of 4-400A tubes.
While Collins originally shipped these stations with 4-250A's, most operators
upgraded the finals to the 4-400A's for improved performance and output.

The Museum also features this fully restored and operational KWS1 station.
On the more modern front, visitors can view beautifully restored KWM1 and KWM2