[NJARC] Kids stuff?

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 00:09:43 -0400

Joe et al,

Yes, that was Alex Magoun, the director of the Sarnoff 
Library.  To bring everyone up to speed:  The next NJARC 
Radio Repair Clinic will be at Sarnoff on Saturday, July 19. 
  We will be inviting the general puplic to bring radios for 
evaluation and possible repair.  Alex ask if someone could 
do a general explaination of radio presentation.  I have 
such a presentation "in the can," so I volunteered.  My 
vision is that we'll do a formal presentation plus an 
telecommunications-science side show.

Marty's right, we don't really know what the audience will 
be like so we'll have to be flexible.  My presentation will 
start in the stone age with amber and lodestone and work 
it's way up to the 21st century.  I'd like to invite any 
interested parties to bring stuff for the "side show."

I can bring some general science demos plus:
-Telegraph key and sounder.
-magneto telephones
-crystal set
-Low-power BC transmitter connected to an RCA remote-pickup 
mixer.  A mike or two and a cassette or CD machine and we'll 
have a reasonable radio station.  Joe, you want to be 
engineer-DJ?  We can hang a scope on this to help explain 
things.  Of course there will be radios around.

Suggestions and help are most welcome.

Regards,
Al

Joe blanks wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
>  At the last meeting there was a gentleman (I wish I could remember his name) who was asking for ideas about a "hands on exhibit" for kids to be used at the radio clinic. 
> And today it hit me.
> here's the idea: (you can just shoot me if I'm crazy, I'll understand)
> 
> We set up a "mini radio station"
> The kids could play records or tapes and/or any programming (mp3) that would demonstrate the progression of technology through the years.
> This programming could then be "broadcast" by low power AM transmitters to be received by the radios that are being fixed at the clinic.
> The kids could even do a mock news broadcast: NEWS FLASH..... Mr. Smiths 1937 Philco was just repaired at the clinic..............or something like that.
> 
> The idea would be to show them all aspects of radio.
> 
> The journalistic/ on air personality side of it.(what child "star" is on the air)
> 
> The programming side of it.( the kids deciding what they want to play "on the air")
> 
> The engineering side of it.(showing them what this radio stuff is and how it works)
> 
> The repair side of it. (by monitoring what goes on in the clinic and how it was fixed  for the news flashes)
> 
> And they'll get a history lesson that won't hurt.(remember all the different types of formats for the broadcast programming)
> 
> well you get the idea.
> 
> what do you think?
> 
> 
> Joe Blanks
> 
> 
> 
> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
> multipart/alternative
>   text/plain (text body -- kept)
>   text/html
> The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
> or had an attachment.  Attachments are not allowed.  To learn how
> to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html  ---
> _______________________________________________
> NJARC mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc
> 
> 

-- 
Al Klase - N3FRQ
[email protected]
Flemington, NJ 08822
Web Page:  http://www.webex.net/~skywaves/home.htm