Radio Ham has over 500 Wireless Sets
/Bernard Pottin (F6CND) has been collecting for twenty years old radio sets. In the garage of his house in Bouquigny, in the Marne, he has accumulated more than 500.
Bernard Pottin spends hours in his garage in Bouquigny, west of Epernay in the Marne, repairing his radio sets. The oldest can only pick up long wave.
Bernard has been passionate about radio since childhood. "At my parents' house, there were TSF [wireless telegraphy] stations where you could listen to amateur radio," he says. This is where the passion was born. I became a radio amateur in 1972. Then I developed this collection about twenty years ago."
Bernard sometimes manages to receive BBC programs in the United Kingdom, "but very weakly". Destroyed by television and replaced by transistors, the wireless counts its last hours of reception on the long waves.
