[NJARC] Today's event at InfoAge

[Dave Sica]

InfoAge was descended upon by over 80 Cub Scouts, along with leaders,
parents and various hangers-on. I think they call it a pack, but it might
have been a gaggle, or a herd, or a miniature blue and gold verison of
Woodstock. It was easily the largest crowd ever handled at one time at
the facility. Congratulations are in order to Al Klase for being the
point man on this, making things run surprisingly smoothly.  And although
this was an InfoAge event and representatives from all the InfoAge member
organizations participated, NJARC easily made -- by far -- the biggest
and the best showing. 

These kids had absolutely no frame of reference for most of what they
were seeing in the demonstrations. Yet most of them were attentive,
interested and astonishingly polite. It was really encouraging to hear
the insightful questions some of them came up with. I guess there's hope
for the world yet! And of course there were also the ones who seemed more
intent on twisting the knobs off all the radios than anything else. But
my favorite was the question from one boy who asked if the RCA emblem on
the 1955-vintage TV was where you inserted the disc! 

I think the tour guides may have learned at least as much as the cub
scouts. I know that I started out by standing and "lecturing", but by the
end of the day I was squatting on the floor and interacting. (And after
it was all over, I realized I was having a real "Ibuprofin Moment"
because of it!)

The one point that was driven home most forcefully to me was in watching
Ray Chase work the "hands on" room: there is simply no way you can go
wrong with a quarter-million volts and a room full of cub scouts! 

Pictures and video to come...

--Dave Sica

On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:04:52 -0700 (PDT) John Ruccolo <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Today Cub Scout Troop 66 from Edison, NJ came to InfoAge for a 
> tour.
 


 
 
 
 
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On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 17:04:52 -0700 (PDT) John Ruccolo <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
> _______________________________________________
> Folks,
> 
> Today Cub Scout Troop 66 from Edison, NJ came to InfoAge for a 
> tour.
> 
> One of the great things about working these events is how old radios 
> sometimes trigger great old memories for people.
> 
> There was an older gentlemen in one of the groups (probably a 
> grandfather
> of one of the kids) who was quite intersted in my description of Al 
> Klase's
> Korean-era R-392 truck receiver. (FYI, this is basically a 
> repackaged version of the famous R-390 for vehicle use).
> 
> He said that he and his buddies were up at 3 o'clock in the morning 
> in Korea listening to the 1953 World Series, sitting outside a 
> Signal Corps truck, which probably used these very radios. He said 
> that he and his friends did not want to hear the re-broadcast later 
> in the day on Armed Forces radio -- they wanted to hear it live.
> 
> BTW, the 1953 World Series was between the Yankees and the Dodgers. 
> The *Brooklyn* Dodgers, that is.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> JR
> 
> 
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