30/07/2025
Welcome to Rolf Bergendorff and his life's work, an electrical and radio engineering museum
I came into contact with radio listening at the age of 13 when a friend showed me his hobby of DXing. DX means that you listen to a radio station from somewhere and write down some times and program points and a little about how the reception was. You send this to the radio station. If they think that what you wrote down matches their broadcast, they send back a confirmation, a so-called QSL card.
This made me immediately start the hunt for the perfect radio to be able to listen to more stations. It simply happened that I bought up the neighborhood's stock of their worn-out and discarded devices and began testing and adjusting them and repairing them later.
Devices of all kinds and designs appeared and I began to collect them. As the years went by, I have more than doubled the number more than once. Since tape recorders, gramophones and TV sets have also appeared, these have also been given their due place in the collection.
On the website I show pictures and technical data of a few devices that are in the collections. As they are photographed, more pictures will appear here, so check back here from time to time.
Most of these will be able to be seen for real when the museum hopefully opens its doors in Skruv right next to the glassworks in Lessebo municipality.
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We are currently having problems displaying Nordic characters on the website but hope to resolve this as soon as possible.
Sometimes there may be some errors here, usually in our translations and I hope you will bear this in mind. If you find something that is not correct in the text, I would be happy if you would let me know to "contact @ radiomuseum.se". The contact tab below has sometimes had problems with delivery.
Unfortunately, the municipality now has negative views on the exterior of the building, which may cause an even longer time before it is possible to carry out physical visits to our museum. The story is that we contacted various carpenters and roofing companies and wanted quotes for re-roofing. One roofer asked about the roof angle and we couldn't, so he said that he has a friend at the municipality who was a structural engineer and that he could help us determine the roof angle. But the structural engineer did nothing other than find so many faults with the building that we should have had it completely free from the start, even though the municipality owned the property a few years ago. Whether the municipality's structural engineer Isac Mihlte (Calls himself an authority) largely collaborates with his friend's construction company from Nybro, to get him extra work and whether he has a profit from the work done, he absolutely did not want to answer.
The mistakes we know we made are that we wrapped our windows in plastic to prevent further damage to them until we have the time and financial means to renovate and paint them, and that he also thought that our loading dock was wobbly. According to Isac, we absolutely cannot have plastic around the windows as it uses more energy in our heating of our warehouses that function as cold storage. Apparently, double-glazed windows wrapped in plastic are prohibited in Lessebo municipality.
Welcome! Kind regards, Rolf Bergendorff.
