May update from the vintageTEK museum

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The newsletter is earlier this month so we can let you know about a recent KOIN TV visit to the museum in preparation for a segment on Tektronix for their "Where We Live" feature

The segment should air during their 5 o'clock news segment on May 13th and also on their morning show the following day.

Oregon Public Broadcasting recently aired their Oregon Experience The Spirit of Tek episode. If you haven't watched this episode it is available to view on the Oregon Public Broadcasing site.

The vintageTEK museum held their exhibit at the Beaverton Library Science Geek Out Fest last month. The booth was well attended with lots of young scientists being introduced to electronics, technology, and oscilloscopes. Our new time of flight exhibit was a big hit demonstrating the oscilloscope to measure travel time of a marble.

The museum will also have these exhibits in a booth at MESA Day (Math Engineering Science Achievement) on May 17th at Portland State University. MESA Day is an annual competition for student teams to test and demonstrate their engineering projects.

Our new Photo of the Month is of Howard Vollum and Dennis Hedberg inside the Oriental Theater with Howard's high end demo unit Dynatrack 3M tape recorder. The photo was taken by Rodgers Jenkins. All three were organ aficionados. Howard constructed a separate building for his pipe organ and Rodgers Jenkins was one of the three Tektronix employees who left in 1958 to form Rodgers Organ with financial backing from Howard.

Dennis Hedberg was an employee at Rodgers Organ and organist who played and helped maintain the pipe organ at the Oriental Theater. When the Oriental Theater closed, and with Howard's help, Dennis acquired the pipe organ and was co-founder of the Organ Grinder Restaurant which featured this organ. Dennis later co-founded Earthquake Ethel's Roadhouse in Beaverton. We have a photo of Howard at his organ and a recording on our Howard Vollum at Tektronix page.

In February we posted our first Photo of the Month of a Final Inspector at Sunset. It turns out that humorous photo was taken for a February 1957 TekTalk article. He actually was a Final Inspector.

Amateur radio is commonly known as “ham radio” and the operators as "hams". Tektronix and its subsidiaries employed a number of hams. Sony/Tektronix even had an amateur radio club with a room at the top of the Sony/Tektronix building in Shinagawa. This photo shows their antenna on the Sony/Tektronix building.

Don Tucker has been compiling a list of Tektronix hams with over 700 individuals included. This list and more information and photos are on our Tektronix and Tektronix Subsidiary Hams page.

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Arnold Rantala
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Newsletter Archive
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TekTalk has new content
Tektronix In Movies And Shows has new content
Tektronix Scope Class has new content

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