[NJARC] Today's event at InfoAge

[Al Klase]

Thanks for the report, Dave.

Here's a couple of pictures including one of Capatin Video:  
http://www.njarc.ar88.net/cubpix/

(You can download the images, as seen, by right clicking on the white 
border.  You can also access the original hi-res .jpg's by left clicking 
on the bottom center of a picture.)

The guys in the army headgear were demonstrating field phones.  Peggy 
Reynolds was kind enough to run "The Sound of Strings" session, while 
John Ruccolo manned the radio room.  Dave Snellman handled the general 
Radio Technology Museum tour, and Edith Chase ran the information desk.

A big "Heap How" to everyone who made this possible.

Al

Dave Sica wrote:
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> 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. 
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> 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:
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>> 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>
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>> Folks,
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>> Today Cub Scout Troop 66 from Edison, NJ came to InfoAge for a 
>> tour.
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>> One of the great things about working these events is how old radios 
>> sometimes trigger great old memories for people.
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> BTW, the 1953 World Series was between the Yankees and the Dodgers. 
>> The *Brooklyn* Dodgers, that is.
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>> Regards,
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>> JR
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
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