[DANCER.MEDIA]

Visual Anthropology

Billy Dancer

Amateur Radio

Research project into amateur radio practice in Manchester. Sociality of two-way radio communications is contingent on atmospheric conditions and shared through circulated objects of club members, past and present.

G8RSI’s radio shack
“These [resistors] belong to a guy… G3VVT. Bob, they belonged to. And VVT, he used to do repeaters in the Midlands… and I paid a fiver for the box… but in this case it goes to his widow. And the thing is you can’t help but think it was his box of resistors. It always will remain.”