[NJARC] Kids stuff?

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:18:03 -0400

Hi Al,
I'm more than happy to help out in any way that I can.
Speaking to Alex the other evening I told him I would be able to bring one
of my drug store tube testers for the kids to play with and he thought that
was a good idea.
So I'm going to bring that with some tubes (extras, so no one has to worry
about a dropped or broken one)
I'm can add to the list of equipment for the radio station.
turntable, reel to reel, etc...
I'm also going to try to see if I can find some appropriate programming (old
time radio shows maybe) in several different formats that could be played
"on the air".
we could write some "scripts" for the kids and they could be the DJ's.
we could also broadcast your presentations.
A lot could be done with something like this.

let me see what I can dig up and I'll let you know.

Thanks,
Joe

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Klase" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Alex Magoun" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: [NJARC] Kids stuff?

> 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
> >
> >
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