[NJARC] Armstrong Days at InfoAge Postponed

[Al Klase]

The Armstrong Days observance has been rescheduled to 26 - 27 January 
2013 due to the Hurricane Sandy aftermath.

This will align this hopefully annual event with Armstrong's 
demonstration of his regenerative receiver to  Chief Inspector David 
Sarnoff, at the American Marconi High-Power Station at Belmar, NJ on 30 
- 31  January 1914.  This site is now the home of the InfoAge Science 
History Learning Center and the New Jersey Antique radio Club's Radio 
Technology Museum.

See: http://www.rtm.ar88.net/Armstrong_Days_at_InfoAge.html

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the development of the regenerative 
radio circuit by Edwin Howard Armstrong an electrical engineering 
student at Colombia University.  This invention not only greatly 
improved the performance of radio receivers, but would also become the 
basis for modern radio transmitters, making voice transmission, and 
radio as we know it, a reality.

The New Jersey Antique Radio Club's Radio Technology Museum will host an 
observance of the occasion at the InfoAge Science History Learning 
Center and Museum in Wall Township, NJ on January 26th and 27th, 2013  
from 1 to 5 PM.  There will be a display and demonstration of a wide 
range of vintage regenerative radio receivers with a formal presentation 
at 2 PM.  The other InfoAge museums will be open as well.  Admission is 
free.  A five-dollar donation to InfoAge is suggested.

Working receivers on display will include a mock-up of Armstrong's 
original circuit receiving a simulated spark radio-telegraph 
transmission, a WWI era naval receiver, early regenerative broadcast 
receivers, more sophisticated "regens" that dominated amateur radio and 
the early phases of the short-wave-broadcast craze in the 1920's and 
30's, and a naval RAL receiver  that served throughout WWII.

Armstrong is arguably the greatest radio inventor since Marconi.  His 
regenerative receiver was followed in 1918 by the superheterodyne, the 
basis for nearly all modern radio receivers. During the 1930's Armstrong 
developed high-fidelity FM broadcasting.  His FM technologies also found 
their way into two-way mobile radio, and radar during WWII.

See you there,
Al

-- 
Al Klase - N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/