Events & Dates

SPECIAL NOTICE: Upcoming Events

 We have the Tri-State Radio Fest in April, our annual picnic in July and our annual Holiday Luncheon just after Thanksgiving.  MEETING NOTES: The agenda for most meetings includes a flea market (tables are free to members) and chat session, followed by a Subway lunch (for $7 cash only please), then any scheduled presentations, a brief business meeting and adjournment. Most meetings start at 9AM and are over by 2PM. We can’t wait to see you at the next PARS meeting!

2024 Tri-State Radio Fest !!

SUNDAY, April 21st

8:30Am – 4PM

Center Stage Banquet Hall, 1495 Old Brodhead Road, Monaca, PA  15061

$7 General Admission

Flea Market Tables!

200-Lot Auction!

Contest: Foreign Tube Radios!

The Tri-State Radio Fest is PARS largest annual event with a large flea market in the morning followed by a 200-lot auction starting about noon. TSRF also features a radio contest with cash prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place! The 2024 edition of TSRF will be the 18th time we have brought this event to Western Pennsylvania. Connect with all your antique radio friends once again at TSRF 2024 !!

NOTE that this is a SUNDAY event.

PARS Presentation

MEMBER PRESENTATIONS WANTED!!

If you want to talk about the history of a particular radio brand you love, or your restoration of that prize plastic AA5 clock radio in your collection then please speak up! We’d LOVE to give you some presentation time at one of our meetings. A projector and screen are available for your visuals. Please DO make a presentation at a PARS meeting! You will be glad your did! 

Similarly, the PARS Oscillator–our quarterly newsletter–is also looking for your radio-related article, history, pictures and anything else you would like to share.

Send an email through the web site contact form and we will connect you with the right person to make your presentation or newsletter article happen! BIG Thanks!

PARS Spring Clinic – Saturday March 23, 2024

CONTEST:  Anything Heathkit !!

Start: 03/23/2024 9:00

Our famous SPRING CLINIC! Members may bring any radio in to our expert panel for diagnosis and low-level repairs. Bring in your unworking dog radio and leave with a repair plan for bringing it back to life!

Held at Brentwood Presbyterian Church 3725 Brownsville Road, 15227
9AM to 11:30 Open Flea Market–Free Tables For Members
10AM to 11:30 Open Chat, Contest Judging, Flea Market
11AM: Possibly a brief presentation and contest winners announced.
11:30AM Lunch– We will have a drink, chips and a Subway sandwich lunch for $7.
Noon: Brief business meeting
Noon-2PM: More chat time for those who want to stay.

Bring a friend to introduce them to PARS and our Hobby.

PARS June Meeting –  June 1, 2024

CONTEST:  Pre 1970 Televisions

06/1/2024 9:00

Held at Brentwood Presbyterian Church 3725 Brownsville Road, 15227
9AM to 11:30 Open Flea Market–Free Tables For Members
10AM to 11:30 Open Chat, Contest Judging, Flea Market
11AM: Possibly a brief presentation and contest winners announced.
11:30AM Lunch– We will have a drink, chips and a Subway sandwich lunch for $7.
Noon: Brief business meeting
Noon-2PM: More chat time for those who want to stay.

PARS Summer Picnic – SATURDAY July 20th 2024

07/20/2024 10:00

CONTEST: Small Tube Radios

MAKE NOTE: The Picnic is on SATURDAY.

The much-loved PARS picnic will be held at the North Park Roosevelt Pavilion which is the same as last year. We are having lunch catered and PARS will be providing the food including main dishes like fried chicken, hot sausage, assorted slider sandwiches, sides like potato salad and tossed salad and drinks and dessert. Paper plates and plastic ware will be provided by PARS, anyone is welcome to bring a side dish or things like cut up watermelon, just bring a serving utensil. There is good parking adjacent to Roosevelt pavilion and it is an easy roll-up for anyone in a wheel chair. So please park in the parking lot next to the Roosevelt Pavilion.

PARS August Meeting – Saturday August 24th, 2024

PARS Officer Elections

08/24/2024 09:00

CONTEST: Eye Tube and Shadow Tuning Radios

Held at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 3725 Brownsville Road, 15227
9AM (setup and flea market) to ~ 4PM
We will have coffee and a Subway lunch available for $7.
This meeting will include nominations for PARS Officers.

PARS Fall Auction – Saturday September 28th, 2024

09/28/2024 09:00

CONTEST: Majestic/Grunow/Rogers Radios

Held at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 3725 Brownsville Road, 15227
9AM (setup and flea market) to ~ 4PM
We will have coffee and a Subway lunch available for $7.
This meeting will include elections for PARS Officers.

This is one of our bigger events with lots of choice items available.

PARS Meeting – Saturday October 26th 2024

Fall Radio Clinic

CONTEST: Homebrew Tube Radios 

10/26/2024 9:00

Held at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 3725 Brownsville Road, 15227
9AM to 2PM
9AM to 11:30 Open Flea Market–Free Tables For Members
10AM to 11:30 Clinic Experts Diagnose Your Radio
11AM: Possibly a brief presentation and contest winners announced.
11:30AM Lunch– We will have drinks, chips and a Subway sandwich lunch for $7.
Noon: Brief business meeting
Noon-2PM: More chat time and clinic time for those who want to stay.

The contest for this meeting will be Homebrew Tube Radios

PARS Holiday Luncheon

December 14, 2024

Contest: Crystal Radios

10:00AM

PARS MEETING and Holiday Luncheon
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Held at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 3725 Brownsville Road, 15227.Held at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 3725 Brownsville Road, 15227.

Contest – Crystal Radios.

It is always a plus if you can include something  in your contest entry display that adds context — manuals, ads from magazines and similar materials.

The Luncheon will be nicely catered as we have always done.

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