[NJARC] Friday night's meeting at the Library

[Alex Magoun]

Hi everyone,

 

The sad news is that instead of checking out the awesome displays assembled
out of your collections on Friday evening, I'm going to be recovering from
jet lag in Lisbon before I give a talk on RCA's Nuvistor tube at the 51st
Society for the History of Technology meeting.  I'll be back Wednesday the
15th.

 

The good news is that Dorothy Sadley is graciously filling in so that the
show can go on.  All she asks is that no one spit tobacco juice in the
corners of the Auditorium, and club members police the area before leaving
by 10 pm.

 

Since she's not a microphone fiend, we'll leave it to Dave Snellman or a
reasonable facsimile thereof to set up; the Control Room will be open.

 

Finally, and most importantly, I'm relying on you all to volunteer 15 1930s
radios that don't sing like birds but remain rock-steady for the Hunterdon
Radio Theatre's two performances of War of the Worlds on Saturday the 25th.
This is the capstone of our Martians for Education Festival
(davidsarnoff.org/m4e_festival_2008.html), which starts with our open house
and the club's repair clinic on the 18th; continues on the 22nd with a
great, free, 3D lecture on looking for life on Mars; and rolls up on
Saturday with the David Sarnoff Radio Club's ham station W0W in Grover's
Mill and our theatrical broadcasts to raise some funds for the Library's
field trip programs.  This is a great opportunity to show off the cream of
your collections in a warm and wonderful venue and move the Library and its
educational offerings another notch.

 

Can Richard Lee keep a little list?  Specifically we're looking for 3
consoles and 12 tabletops for that 16-channel mono surround sound that is
such a memorable trademark of the 1938 home listening experience.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Alex 

 

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