From antqradio at sbcglobal.net Fri Jun 1 01:49:48 2018 From: antqradio at sbcglobal.net (Jim Whartenby) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 05:49:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] How did National Union make Inditrons? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <672253475.7538807.1527832188677@mail.yahoo.com> AlexAccording to?http://www.decodesystems.com/nixie-history.html, Inditrons are difficult to find so it is conceivable that assembly was more by hand then machine. ?That does not mean that the numerical assembly was "free formed" totally by hand. ? To speed up assembly and foster uniformity, fixtures would be used to hold the wire in position for welding and wire cutting. ?Then it would be a much simpler matter to weld the preformed digits in place. ? When I was working for Microwave Semiconductor Corporation many years ago, one of the production technicians was quite good at making little aluminum fixtures to bend micro-coax into complex shapes which were very uniform. ?It only took a few fixtures on the assembly line to greatly speed up a particular microwave amplifier assembly process. ? It would only be a matter of making more fixtures to produce enough digits for the tube assemblers.Jim From: Alex Magoun To: njarc at mailman.qth.net Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2018 3:04 PM Subject: [NJARC] How did National Union make Inditrons? National Union being an Orange, NJ, company making vacuum tubes, I thought perhaps someone might know someone who worked there on Inditrons: http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/dat_arch/inditron.pdf. Apparently these were actually manufactured in an Illinois factory, but nonetheless, any details of fabrication? One writer claims the numeric wires were "hand bent," something I find hard to believe. 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Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell NJ 07731 848-245-9115 -----Original Message----- From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Matt Reynolds Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 2:12 PM To: William S Zukowski ; NJARC at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [NJARC] useless minutia Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ From antqradio at sbcglobal.net Sat Jun 2 17:09:49 2018 From: antqradio at sbcglobal.net (Jim Whartenby) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 21:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] Need BIG rheostat In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <314187667.8090431.1527973789296@mail.yahoo.com> BillDid you find one? ?Found this example today while looking for other stuff. ?NOS still with original packaging.Jim From: William S Zukowski To: "NJARC at mailman.qth.net" Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2018 4:45 PM Subject: [NJARC] Need BIG rheostat Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Anyone have a 1K, 50W wire wound rheostat looking for a new home? 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References: <1159353091.104358.1528157542978.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1159353091.104358.1528157542978@mail.yahoo.com> Greetings Fellow Enthusiasts, This is a reminder that our June meeting is this Friday at Bowen Hall, Princeton U. member Alan Wolke will being giving us a presentation on Types of Capacitors and how to test them for ESR with an Oscilloscope.? No auction is scheduled, so why not bring something to share, sell or give away?? See you all there...Richard Lee Pres. NJARC | | Virus-free. www.avast.com | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.b.magoun at ieee.org Tue Jun 5 11:24:22 2018 From: a.b.magoun at ieee.org (Alex Magoun) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:24:22 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] How did National Union make Inditrons? Message-ID: Jim, Thanks for reinforcing what I suspected about fixtures, jigs, or forms on a production line. Too often, contemporary writers seem to assume that the electronics industry was coiling tube filaments and doping germanium transistors by hand. Alex ~~~ Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D., Outreach Historian IEEE History Center Samuel C. Williams Library 3rd Floor Stevens Institute of Technology 1 Castle Point Terrace Hoboken NJ 07030-5991 USA +1 732-981-3414 a.b.magoun at ieee.org www.ethw.org www.ieee.org/history_center IEEE - Advancing Technology for Humanity -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a.b.magoun at ieee.org Tue Jun 5 11:33:40 2018 From: a.b.magoun at ieee.org (Alex Magoun) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:33:40 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Eccles-Jordan flip flop Message-ID: Jim, I forwarded your anonymous comments to the editor, who appreciated them as explaining the challenges of making the circuit work as Richard described it: "he has gotten it working, just in a way that's out of spec, which accounts for all the adjusting he had to do. I think anyone actually trying to reproduce this circuit with 6J5s would have better luck as indicated." He was going to check with Richard on that approach and review the schematic, which is now, for better or worse, in print. Alex ~~~ Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D., Outreach Historian IEEE History Center Samuel C. Williams Library 3rd Floor Stevens Institute of Technology 1 Castle Point Terrace Hoboken NJ 07030-5991 USA +1 732-981-3414 a.b.magoun at ieee.org www.ethw.org www.ieee.org/history_center IEEE - Advancing Technology for Humanity From trainbee at aol.com Tue Jun 5 11:49:53 2018 From: trainbee at aol.com (TrainBee) Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:49:53 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Eccles-Jordan flip flop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <163d0a3ea33-c92-84a2@webjas-vac173.srv.aolmail.net> Jim and Alex, I'm waiting on permission to use some of the article in the NEARC newsletter. As it was explained to me, there were multiple contributors to the article and each would have to be contacted. Simply, the idea of it all seems interesting enough for the newsletter with a disclaimer about it's ability to function and credits to the author(s). We might be better off waiting to see if there is an update in the next issue. Regards, Joe Devonshire -----Original Message----- From: Alex Magoun To: njarc Sent: Tue, Jun 5, 2018 11:37 am Subject: Re: [NJARC] Eccles-Jordan flip flop Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Jim, I forwarded your anonymous comments to the editor, who appreciated them as explaining the challenges of making the circuit work as Richard described it: "he has gotten it working, just in a way that's out of spec, which accounts for all the adjusting he had to do. I think anyone actually trying to reproduce this circuit with 6J5s would have better luck as indicated." He was going to check with Richard on that approach and review the schematic, which is now, for better or worse, in print. Alex ~~~ Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D., Outreach Historian IEEE History Center Samuel C. Williams Library 3rd Floor Stevens Institute of Technology 1 Castle Point Terrace Hoboken NJ 07030-5991 USA +1 732-981-3414 a.b.magoun at ieee.org www.ethw.org www.ieee.org/history_center IEEE - Advancing Technology for Humanity ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I tried to Google the bio of Richard Brewster and found nothing definitive. ?The only bio that I though was relevant was about a mathematician at Thomson Rivers University in Canada. ?There is also "Richard Brewster's Experimental Sounds, Experimental Electronic Music" but there is no biographical data there either. ?One gets the impression that everyone wants to be anonymous. ?In any case, it appears that Richard's experiences are outside of the vacuum tube technology realm. ? Perhaps the telegraph relays could work if the spring tension was reduced so that the weak magnetic field would still pull the armature in. ?Other missteps in the circuit are the two 10k resistors on the B+ side of the relay. ?They serve no purpose that I can see other then to further reduce the feeble 01A plate current. ?Then the cross connected 115k resistors should be moved to the other side of the relay to the junction of the relay and tube plate. Of course the -63 volts and + 9 volts and/or the resistors in the grid bias circuit would need to be adjusted so that the 01A plate current either saturates or is cut off. ?If standard 5% value resistors don't cut it, something is wrong.Regards,Jim From: Alex Magoun To: njarc at mailman.qth.net Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Eccles-Jordan flip flop Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Jim, I forwarded your anonymous comments to the editor, who appreciated them as explaining the challenges of making the circuit work as Richard described it: "he has gotten it working, just in a way that's out of spec, which accounts for all the adjusting he had to do. I think anyone actually trying to reproduce this circuit with 6J5s would have better luck as indicated." He was going to check with Richard on that approach and review the schematic, which is now, for better or worse, in print. 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His background is in nuclear engineering for Westinghouse, but presumably he knows enough about tube electronics to make this circuit work, if not as neatly, or squarely, as it could. best, Alex ~~~ Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D., Outreach Historian IEEE History Center Samuel C. Williams Library 3rd Floor Stevens Institute of Technology 1 Castle Point Terrace Hoboken NJ 07030-5991 USA +1 732-981-3414 a.b.magoun at ieee.org www.ethw.org www.ieee.org/history_center IEEE - Advancing Technology for Humanity -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From radiorich at prodigy.net Fri Jun 8 07:49:56 2018 From: radiorich at prodigy.net (RICHARD LEE) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 11:49:56 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] Tonight's meeting at Princeton U. References: <1438503036.2307660.1528458596756.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1438503036.2307660.1528458596756@mail.yahoo.com> Greetings Fellow Enthusiasts, due to a recent acquisition...there will be a small auction after Alan Wolke's presentation...'See you all there!..Richard Lee Pres. NJARC? Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oldradio at comcast.net Fri Jun 8 14:45:07 2018 From: oldradio at comcast.net (John Dilks) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:45:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NJARC] Great internet music Message-ID: <912460091.527849.1528483507600@connect.xfinity.com> KTNK at 1410 AM and 103.7 FM, where they broadcast the very best in traditional country, bluegrass, honky-tonk, and western swing music, 24 hours a day! 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And the newsletter is good publicity. -- 73, John Dilks, K2TQN Web Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rvforte at gmail.com Sat Jun 9 13:11:11 2018 From: rvforte at gmail.com (ROBERT FORTE) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 13:11:11 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN. WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS? NO. SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB > On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > To all and the Board > > Newsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new members. If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter is good publicity. > > -- > > > > 73, John Dilks, K2TQN > > Web Site - www.k2tqn.com > Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Why is there a need to check membership at meetings or other club events? ?I can see verifying membership to participate in auctions and such; this should be a benefit of membership but I see no reason to exclude walk-ins from club meetings, clinics or flea-markets.Just my humble opinion,Jim From: ROBERT FORTE To: John Dilks Cc: Marv Njarc Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2018 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN. ?WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS? ?NO. ?SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ To all and the BoardNewsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new members.? If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter is good publicity.--? 73, John Dilks, K2TQNWeb Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html | | Virus-free. www.avast.com | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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NONE AS I SEE IT. > THOSE THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND > WHAT IS THE ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK > MEMBERSHIP AT OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS? ?NO. ?SO > LET THE WORLD SEE OUR BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED > VIDEOS. ROB > >> On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks > > wrote: >> >> Just remember >> Reply = Poster >> Reply All = Everyone >> >> _________________________________________________________ >> >> *To all and the Board* >> >> *Newsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to >> attract new members.? If you want the club to grow, publicity works. >> And the newsletter is good publicity.* >> >> -- >> >> >> 73, John Dilks, K2TQN >> >> Web Site - www.k2tqn.com >> Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> NJARC mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? 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URL: From n4fs at eozinc.com Mon Jun 11 12:03:02 2018 From: n4fs at eozinc.com (Mike Feher) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:03:02 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] useless minutia In-Reply-To: References: <21c3564c-b181-13b5-d665-7a0459f597b5@optonline.net> Message-ID: <0e2401d4019d$adbf36b0$093da410$@eozinc.com> Hi Matt - I am a little disappointed that you have not let me know how the tubes I gave you worked out. Maybe you went back to the future ?. - Mike Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell NJ 07731 848-245-9115 -----Original Message----- From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Matt Reynolds Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 2:12 PM To: William S Zukowski ; NJARC at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [NJARC] useless minutia Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ From mattr04 at hotmail.com Mon Jun 11 13:45:07 2018 From: mattr04 at hotmail.com (Matt Reynolds) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:45:07 +0000 Subject: [NJARC] useless minutia In-Reply-To: <0e2401d4019d$adbf36b0$093da410$@eozinc.com> References: <21c3564c-b181-13b5-d665-7a0459f597b5@optonline.net> , <0e2401d4019d$adbf36b0$093da410$@eozinc.com> Message-ID: Hi Mike, Thanks for the reminder. I thought I had sent a note, but it slipped my mind. Perhaps I sent it next month... I have not personally seen the tubes installed in the hood box on Team Fox's Time Machine yet, but I do know that they arrived safely, and they were well received and appreciated. Oliver did send me a teaser picture of one of them installed. See attached. In September of this year the Hollers are throwing a celebration in California where many of the events from the third movie (where they go back to 1885). They are going all out, re-creating many of the scenes and props and throwing activities that will be in the spirit of the movie, all in spirit with the "old West" era. I will be there, and will be able to see them installed first hand. I'll be sure to send photos of the full car when I go. The Hollers (Team Fox) continue to go from event to event raising money to support the Michael J Fox foundation for Parkinsons Research. Thanks again for your help supporting these amazing people raise money for those suffering with Parkinsons. Best Regards, Matt ________________________________ From: Mike Feher Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 12:03:02 PM To: 'Matt Reynolds'; 'William S Zukowski'; NJARC at mailman.qth.net Subject: RE: [NJARC] useless minutia Hi Matt - I am a little disappointed that you have not let me know how the tubes I gave you worked out. Maybe you went back to the future ?. - Mike Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell NJ 07731 848-245-9115 -----Original Message----- From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Matt Reynolds Sent: Friday, June 1, 2018 2:12 PM To: William S Zukowski ; NJARC at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [NJARC] useless minutia Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 5679f54652c7d23bf77e29940f82f85d.0.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 287022 bytes Desc: 5679f54652c7d23bf77e29940f82f85d.0.jpg URL: From davesica at gmail.com Mon Jun 11 22:46:03 2018 From: davesica at gmail.com (David Sica) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:46:03 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> Message-ID: Over a hundred back issues of the newsletter have been available on the website for some time now. -- Dave [image: NJARC newsletter archive.jpg.png] On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Al Klase wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Rob, > > The long standing theory is that we have a number of faithful NJARC > members, some in remote locations, whose primary participation is reading > the Broadcaster. I have personally done this in the past with other clubs, > and remain a member of AWA. It's a little hard to judge the financial > impact of freeing up the newsletter. > > I vote don't fix it if it ain't broke. > > Al > > On 6/9/2018 1:11 PM, ROBERT FORTE wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > > I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN. WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE > THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE > ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR > MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS? NO. SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR > BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB > > On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > *To all and the Board* > > *Newsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new > members. If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter > is good publicity.* > > -- > > > > 73, John Dilks, K2TQN > > Web Site - www.k2tqn.com > Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > -- > Al Klase ? 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TO OUR MEETINGS, PARSIPPANY SWAP MEETS, TAILGATE SWAP MEET, REPAIR CLINICS, REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS (WHICH ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLUB MEMBERS, AS A FEW GUESTS ARE ALWAYS INTRODUCED BY RICH EVERY MONTH). YES, SOME PEOPLE WILL GAME THE SYSTEM, NOT PAY DUES BUT AVAIL THEMSELVES OF OUR LARGESSE, BUT IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN GOING TO CHURCH, OR ANY FREE EVENT, WHERE SOMETHING IS GIVEN, AND DONATIONS ARE THEN REQUESTED. SOME WILL GIVE, SOME WILL NOT. DO WE KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM A CHURCH SERVICE, OR ANY COMMUNITY EVENT, BASED ON THEIR COMMITMENT TO PAYING, I THINK NOT. UNTIL WE LIMIT OUR MEETINGS, REPAIR CLINICS, SWAP MEETS TO MEMBERS ONLY, WITH A MEMBERSHIP CHECK AT THE DOOR, WE ARE LIMITING OURSELVES TO GROWTH, AS THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS THAN BY SHOWING THE PERSPECTIVE NEW MEMBER ALL THE BENEFITS OF OUR CLUB. ROB FORTE > On Jun 11, 2018, at 10:46 PM, David Sica wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > Over a hundred back issues of the newsletter have been available on the website for some time now. > > -- Dave > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Al Klase > wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Rob, > > The long standing theory is that we have a number of faithful NJARC members, some in remote locations, whose primary participation is reading the Broadcaster. I have personally done this in the past with other clubs, and remain a member of AWA. It's a little hard to judge the financial impact of freeing up the newsletter. > > I vote don't fix it if it ain't broke. > > Al > > On 6/9/2018 1:11 PM, ROBERT FORTE wrote: >> Just remember >> Reply = Poster >> Reply All = Everyone >> >> _________________________________________________________ >> >> >> I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN. WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS? NO. SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB >> >>> On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks > wrote: >>> >>> Just remember >>> Reply = Poster >>> Reply All = Everyone >>> >>> _________________________________________________________ >>> To all and the Board >>> >>> Newsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new members. If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter is good publicity. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> 73, John Dilks, K2TQN >>> >>> Web Site - www.k2tqn.com >>> Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> NJARC mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> NJARC mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- > Al Klase ? 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URL: From antqradio at sbcglobal.net Tue Jun 12 11:23:34 2018 From: antqradio at sbcglobal.net (Jim Whartenby) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:23:34 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> Message-ID: <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> I have a feeling that this maybe a solution in search of a problem. Perhaps it is time to survey new members and find out how they discovered NJARC and go from there. ?If I was to venture a guess, I think it would still be by word-of-mouth. ? Out of curiosity, how many dues paying members does NJARC currently have? ?If memory serves me well, membership has always hovered around 400 give or take. ?Is this still the norm? NJARC, in my mind, is an exceptional club. ?Most radio organizations I have had the pleasure to visit have nowhere near the membership or the variety of programs. ?The only club I have seen that comes anywhere near to the membership and breath of programs of NJARC is the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society (VRPS) located in the Irving-Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. ? Anyone have first hand knowledge of other similar sized clubs? Jim From: ROBERT FORTE To: David Sica Cc: Marv Njarc Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free I GUESS IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHAT OUR GOAL IS. DOES KEEPING OUR BROADCASTER FREE ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS WITH ALL THE INFO IT GIVES, OR DO WE LIMIT THE CURRENT BROADCASTER TO DUES PAYING MEMBERS? IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT BACK ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ANYWAY, I STILL AM OF THE OPINION THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO OUR NEWSLETTER, MEMBER OR NOT. IT IS A FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT. ?TO OUR MEETINGS, PARSIPPANY ?SWAP MEETS, TAILGATE SWAP MEET, ?REPAIR CLINICS, REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS (WHICH ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLUB MEMBERS, AS A FEW GUESTS ARE ALWAYS INTRODUCED BY RICH EVERY MONTH). YES, SOME PEOPLE WILL GAME THE SYSTEM, NOT PAY DUES BUT AVAIL THEMSELVES OF OUR LARGESSE, ?BUT IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN GOING TO CHURCH, OR ANY FREE EVENT, WHERE SOMETHING IS GIVEN, AND DONATIONS ARE THEN REQUESTED. SOME WILL GIVE, SOME WILL NOT. DO WE KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM A CHURCH SERVICE, OR ANY COMMUNITY EVENT, BASED ON THEIR COMMITMENT TO PAYING, I THINK NOT. UNTIL WE LIMIT OUR MEETINGS, REPAIR CLINICS, SWAP MEETS TO MEMBERS ONLY, ?WITH A MEMBERSHIP CHECK AT THE DOOR, ?WE ARE LIMITING OURSELVES TO GROWTH, AS THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS THAN BY SHOWING THE PERSPECTIVE NEW MEMBER ALL THE BENEFITS OF OUR CLUB. ?ROB FORTE On Jun 11, 2018, at 10:46 PM, David Sica wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Over a hundred back issues of the newsletter have been available on the website for some time now.? -- Dave On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Al Klase wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Rob, The long standing theory is that we have a number of faithful NJARC members, some in remote locations, whose primary participation is reading the Broadcaster.? I have personally done this in the past with other clubs, and remain a member of AWA. ? It's a little hard to judge the financial impact of freeing up the newsletter. I vote don't fix it if it ain't broke. Al On 6/9/2018 1:11 PM, ROBERT FORTE wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN.? WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS?? NO.? SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ To all and the BoardNewsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new members.? If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter is good publicity.-- ? 73, John Dilks, K2TQNWeb Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html | | Virus-free. www.avast.com | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davesica at gmail.com Tue Jun 12 16:01:59 2018 From: davesica at gmail.com (David Sica) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:01:59 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: The club has always hovered around 200 members, after fairly quickly ramping up to that level in our first year. That's a healthy number by any standards but I've always wondered why we seemed to level off there. I seem to recall that the New England Club hit around 800 members, at least for a while, back in its heyday. I think a couple of other clubs also have or had significantly more members than we do. And yeah, we do have an exceptionally good club, so I've never been able to figure out why that's so. -- Dave Sica On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:27 AM Jim Whartenby wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > I have a feeling that this maybe a solution in search of a problem. > > Perhaps it is time to survey new members and find out how they discovered > NJARC and go from there. If I was to venture a guess, I think it would > still be by word-of-mouth. > > Out of curiosity, how many dues paying members does NJARC currently have? > If memory serves me well, membership has always hovered around 400 give or > take. Is this still the norm? > > NJARC, in my mind, is an exceptional club. Most radio organizations I > have had the pleasure to visit have nowhere near the membership or the > variety of programs. The only club I have seen that comes anywhere near to > the membership and breath of programs of NJARC is the Vintage Radio and > Phonograph Society (VRPS) located in the Irving-Dallas-Fort Worth area of > Texas. > > Anyone have first hand knowledge of other similar sized clubs? > Jim > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* ROBERT FORTE > *To:* David Sica > *Cc:* Marv Njarc > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2018 6:58 AM > *Subject:* Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free > > I GUESS IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHAT OUR GOAL IS. DOES KEEPING OUR > BROADCASTER FREE ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS WITH ALL THE INFO IT GIVES, OR DO WE > LIMIT THE CURRENT BROADCASTER TO DUES PAYING MEMBERS? IN VIEW OF THE FACT > THAT BACK ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ANYWAY, I STILL AM OF THE OPINION > THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO OUR NEWSLETTER, MEMBER OR NOT. IT IS A > FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT. TO OUR MEETINGS, PARSIPPANY SWAP MEETS, TAILGATE > SWAP MEET, REPAIR CLINICS, REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS (WHICH ARE NOT LIMITED > TO CLUB MEMBERS, AS A FEW GUESTS ARE ALWAYS INTRODUCED BY RICH EVERY > MONTH). YES, SOME PEOPLE WILL GAME THE SYSTEM, NOT PAY DUES BUT AVAIL > THEMSELVES OF OUR LARGESSE, BUT IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN GOING TO CHURCH, > OR ANY FREE EVENT, WHERE SOMETHING IS GIVEN, AND DONATIONS ARE THEN > REQUESTED. SOME WILL GIVE, SOME WILL NOT. DO WE KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM A > CHURCH SERVICE, OR ANY COMMUNITY EVENT, BASED ON THEIR COMMITMENT TO > PAYING, I THINK NOT. UNTIL WE LIMIT OUR MEETINGS, REPAIR CLINICS, SWAP > MEETS TO MEMBERS ONLY, WITH A MEMBERSHIP CHECK AT THE DOOR, WE ARE > LIMITING OURSELVES TO GROWTH, AS THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO ATTRACT NEW > MEMBERS THAN BY SHOWING THE PERSPECTIVE NEW MEMBER ALL THE BENEFITS OF OUR > CLUB. ROB FORTE > > On Jun 11, 2018, at 10:46 PM, David Sica wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > Over a hundred back issues of the newsletter have been available on the > website for some time now. > > -- Dave > > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Al Klase wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Rob, > > The long standing theory is that we have a number of faithful NJARC > members, some in remote locations, whose primary participation is reading > the Broadcaster. I have personally done this in the past with other clubs, > and remain a member of AWA. It's a little hard to judge the financial > impact of freeing up the newsletter. > > I vote don't fix it if it ain't broke. > > Al > > On 6/9/2018 1:11 PM, ROBERT FORTE wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > > I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN. WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE > THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE > ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR > MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS? NO. SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR > BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB > > On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > *To all and the Board* > *Newsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new > members. If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter > is good publicity.* > -- > > 73, John Dilks, K2TQN > Web Site - www.k2tqn.com > Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > -- > Al Klase ? N3FRQ > Jersey City, NJhttp://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > > <#m_2657411071363093384_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trainbee at aol.com Tue Jun 12 16:04:54 2018 From: trainbee at aol.com (TrainBee) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:04:54 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free Message-ID: <163f599e9c2-c8d-9da4@webjas-vad195.srv.aolmail.net> Up to now, I've been sitting on the sidelines reading the comments. Each offering makes sense, but up until I saw Jim's comments, which I completely agree with, I couldn't understand why we would give away a benefit of NJARC Membership. The publicity of the NJARC is in the hands of each member. If each member is not actively promoting the NJARC, then why be a member? Over the nearly 20 years of my NJARC membership, I've taken the time to look at, and join, other radio / vintage electronics related organizations. Most have something, but for the most part, none have all that the NJARC has. Only a few Amateur Radio clubs come close to what the NJARC has to offer. I took on the role of asst. editor of another club, along with soliciting articles, editing them, if you get any, and then putting the whole newsletter together. It is no easy feat! With that stated, I would not so humbly suggest that we have, and keep, mandatory membership for the current months newsletter. We already post it for FREE, as do other clubs, on our website at least a month after publication. I am amazed each month how Marv Beeferman manages to put together such a quality newsletter, and get it to each member, each month. This is not my first venture into putting a newsletter together, and with help this time. Just in case you were wondering, it's with the NEARC. With the lack of articles sent in from members, Marv has to look for articles each month. I wouldn't venture a guess to how much time he spends on this alone. It is more than most would even bother to put the time into had they taken on the position of NJARC Editor. You don't need a Broadcaster to find out about Swapmeets or Hamfests. The Swapmeets are listed for FREE on the NJARC website and the ARRL also lists the NJARC Swapmeets. There are other venues with Swapmeet listings as well. Another FREE offer we have are the monthly webcasts of our meetings. I was one of the 7 or 8 watching the last Webcast meeting. I don't know who the others were, but I was glad to know I wasn't the only one. Cudo's to Dave Sica for his initiative to keep this going. What other club does this? It's the only option some for some of us who no longer live local to the meetings and to stay in touch. And, let's not forget Aaron Hunter the keeper of the Schematic Library. I try not to over use his kind help. We wouldn't have this list via QTH.com without John Dilks. Thank you for your continued effort to keep this going. John, I hear what you are saying, I don't think I've ever disagreed with you, but I don't think listing the current month's newsletter is a good idea. Another case in point is the Canadian Vintage Radio Society. https://canadianvintageradio.com/ They do put their newsletter on their website. Members can view it, and if you pay the membership fee, you can view it. I offer this as a possible option for the NJARC to draw new members. For the membership fee the NJARC has, it is small in comparison to the amenities the NJARC has to offer. And, some of them are already free via our website. Respectfully, Joe Devonshire AB1YO Jefferson, ME -----Original Message----- From: Jim Whartenby To: ROBERT FORTE Cc: Marv Njarc Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2018 11:27 am Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ I have a feeling that this maybe a solution in search of a problem. Perhaps it is time to survey new members and find out how they discovered NJARC and go from there. If I was to venture a guess, I think it would still be by word-of-mouth. Out of curiosity, how many dues paying members does NJARC currently have? If memory serves me well, membership has always hovered around 400 give or take. Is this still the norm? NJARC, in my mind, is an exceptional club. Most radio organizations I have had the pleasure to visit have nowhere near the membership or the variety of programs. The only club I have seen that comes anywhere near to the membership and breath of programs of NJARC is the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society (VRPS) located in the Irving-Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. Anyone have first hand knowledge of other similar sized clubs? Jim From: ROBERT FORTE To: David Sica Cc: Marv Njarc Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free I GUESS IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHAT OUR GOAL IS. DOES KEEPING OUR BROADCASTER FREE ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS WITH ALL THE INFO IT GIVES, OR DO WE LIMIT THE CURRENT BROADCASTER TO DUES PAYING MEMBERS? IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT BACK ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ANYWAY, I STILL AM OF THE OPINION THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO OUR NEWSLETTER, MEMBER OR NOT. IT IS A FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT. TO OUR MEETINGS, PARSIPPANY SWAP MEETS, TAILGATE SWAP MEET, REPAIR CLINICS, REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS (WHICH ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLUB MEMBERS, AS A FEW GUESTS ARE ALWAYS INTRODUCED BY RICH EVERY MONTH). YES, SOME PEOPLE WILL GAME THE SYSTEM, NOT PAY DUES BUT AVAIL THEMSELVES OF OUR LARGESSE, BUT IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN GOING TO CHURCH, OR ANY FREE EVENT, WHERE SOMETHING IS GIVEN, AND DONATIONS ARE THEN REQUESTED. SOME WILL GIVE, SOME WILL NOT. DO WE KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM A CHURCH SERVICE, OR ANY COMMUNITY EVENT, BASED ON THEIR COMMITMENT TO PAYING, I THINK NOT. UNTIL WE LIMIT OUR MEETINGS, REPAIR CLINICS, SWAP MEETS TO MEMBERS ONLY, WITH A MEMBERSHIP CHECK AT THE DOOR, WE ARE LIMITING OURSELVES TO GROWTH, AS THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS THAN BY SHOWING THE PERSPECTIVE NEW MEMBER ALL THE BENEFITS OF OUR CLUB. ROB FORTE On Jun 11, 2018, at 10:46 PM, David Sica wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Over a hundred back issues of the newsletter have been available on the website for some time now. -- Dave On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Al Klase wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Rob, The long standing theory is that we have a number of faithful NJARC members, some in remote locations, whose primary participation is reading the Broadcaster. I have personally done this in the past with other clubs, and remain a member of AWA. It's a little hard to judge the financial impact of freeing up the newsletter. I vote don't fix it if it ain't broke. Al On 6/9/2018 1:11 PM, ROBERT FORTE wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN. WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS? NO. SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ To all and the Board Newsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new members. If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter is good publicity. -- 73, John Dilks, K2TQN Web Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? 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URL: From jwkoest at charter.net Tue Jun 12 17:15:01 2018 From: jwkoest at charter.net (Joe Koester) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:15:01 -0500 Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <001e01d40292$6d318670$47949350$@charter.net> Hi Guys, When you mention successful clubs with fairly large memberships you have another one right on your doorstep, The Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club (MAARC). I just checked with the membership chair and they have 584. Membership fluctuates, lose some, gain some and it had been in the area of 600 for a number of years. At one point is was about 800, but 600 ain't bad. They publish a monthly journal (not a newsletter) called Radio Age (formerly published by Don Patterson) and the yearly dues are $24. For that you get a 16 page, illustrated (with good graphics) publication and access to the technical library. While your newsletter is free, this one costs, and the $24 does not cover the cost of the publication and mailing. So it is subsidized and MAARC raises funds through auctions at their monthly meetings, their annual convention (Radioactivity which is held in June - this week) and the Fallfest in October. Anyone coming to RA? I must be nuts as I am driving 600 miles and will get there on Thursday! The thing that keeps the membership up is the Journal - were it not for that the membership would probably be half. But it is a lot of work with three editors handling four issues a year. So the key (as we have seen for US) is monthly meetings with an auction, mini swap meet, presentation, and a really good monthly pub which accounts for probably half the numbers. This format works for MAARC, and each organization has something that works for them. I'm sure some of the NJ club members are also members of MAARC, and the reverse is true. I was a member of your club when I lived in Maryland and remember Tony Flanagan very fondly, as well as a number of others. It is a great hobby we share. 73s, Joe Koester/W4NSA -----Original Message----- From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Sica Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 3:02 PM To: Jim Whartenby Cc: NJARC Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ From antqradio at sbcglobal.net Tue Jun 12 17:19:48 2018 From: antqradio at sbcglobal.net (Jim Whartenby) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 21:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] Club history, was: Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1804484470.4483082.1528838388328@mail.yahoo.com> Just checked http://www.njarc.org/clubprograms.html?and the Broadcaster isn't listed as a membership benefit. ?The Tube, Resistor, Capacitor and Schematic programs are listed as membership benefits along with the Repair Clinic and this reflector. The NJARC constitution will have to be modified if the Broadcaster is made free on the 'net since it says in Article IV, B-4 that the newsletter is a benefit to a member in good standing which is, of course, one who pays their dues. ?The NJARC Constitution should be looked at anyway since a lot has changed over the last 20 years or so. ? Looking over some of the other items at http://www.njarc.org?particularity the "History of NJARC Officers" under "Club Information", I see a lot of blanks. ?In an effort to add some information, here are the club officers from inception up to when I was elected. According to the March, 1993, the first issue of the NJARC News, Volume 1, Number 1:President: Charles A. (Tony) FlanaganVice President: Michael HammerSecretary and Treasurer: Kathleen FlanaganTechnical Coordinator: Thomas ProvostSargent-at-Arms and Steward:?Don CruseNewsletter Editor: David SicaTrustees: Mark Mittleman and Ludwell Sibley This list was unchanged until Autumn, 1994 issue of NJARC News, Volume 2, Number 2 when Marv Beeferman became Sargent-At- Arms / Steward and was also named the Swapmeet Coordinator. ?Lud was also the guest editor for this issue. The next issue of NJARC News (that I have) is Winter 1994-1995, Volume 3, Number 1. ?Everything is as above except that the Swapmeet Coordinator is now Jim Fisher. The next issue (that I have) of NJARC News?is Summer 1995, Volume 4, Number 1. ?Everything is as above except that the Swapmeet Coordinator position is now back to Marv Beeferman. The next issue of the NJARC Newsletter was a change form the 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inch format to the current 8 1/2 by 11 inch format. ?Fall 1995, Volume 1, Issue 1 is the first to use of the name "Broadcaster" on the newsletter masthead. ?Editor is now a new chap named Marv Beeferman. ?Hope he makes the grade! The next list of NJARC Officers is in Broadcaster, Summer 1996, Volume 2 Issue 7.President: Jim WhartenbyVice President: Ludwell SibleySecretary: Marv BeefermanTreasurer: Gerald DowginSargent-At-Arms: Donald CruiseTrustee: Mark Mittleman If there is interest, I can go through my Broadcaster collection and fill in more of the history. ?I hope that this information gets added to the History of NJARC Officers on the web page. ?It has taken me a few hours to go through this exercise! On other issues of membership, this reflector currently has 258 members. ?Don't know how often this changes but I do remember a few people who have publicly resigned from the reflector over the years and the occasional post that says "new to the group" or some such phrase. ? So another question to be answered is: how did you find this reflector if you are not an NJARC member?Jim From: Jim Whartenby To: ROBERT FORTE Cc: Marv Njarc Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free I have a feeling that this maybe a solution in search of a problem. Perhaps it is time to survey new members and find out how they discovered NJARC and go from there. ?If I was to venture a guess, I think it would still be by word-of-mouth. ? Out of curiosity, how many dues paying members does NJARC currently have? ?If memory serves me well, membership has always hovered around 400 give or take. ?Is this still the norm? NJARC, in my mind, is an exceptional club. ?Most radio organizations I have had the pleasure to visit have nowhere near the membership or the variety of programs. ?The only club I have seen that comes anywhere near to the membership and breath of programs of NJARC is the Vintage Radio and Phonograph Society (VRPS) located in the Irving-Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. ? Anyone have first hand knowledge of other similar sized clubs? Jim From: ROBERT FORTE To: David Sica Cc: Marv Njarc Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free I GUESS IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHAT OUR GOAL IS. DOES KEEPING OUR BROADCASTER FREE ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS WITH ALL THE INFO IT GIVES, OR DO WE LIMIT THE CURRENT BROADCASTER TO DUES PAYING MEMBERS? IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT BACK ISSUES ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ANYWAY, I STILL AM OF THE OPINION THAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE ACCESS TO OUR NEWSLETTER, MEMBER OR NOT. IT IS A FORM OF ADVERTISEMENT. ?TO OUR MEETINGS, PARSIPPANY ?SWAP MEETS, TAILGATE SWAP MEET, ?REPAIR CLINICS, REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS (WHICH ARE NOT LIMITED TO CLUB MEMBERS, AS A FEW GUESTS ARE ALWAYS INTRODUCED BY RICH EVERY MONTH). YES, SOME PEOPLE WILL GAME THE SYSTEM, NOT PAY DUES BUT AVAIL THEMSELVES OF OUR LARGESSE, ?BUT IT IS NO DIFFERENT THAN GOING TO CHURCH, OR ANY FREE EVENT, WHERE SOMETHING IS GIVEN, AND DONATIONS ARE THEN REQUESTED. SOME WILL GIVE, SOME WILL NOT. DO WE KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM A CHURCH SERVICE, OR ANY COMMUNITY EVENT, BASED ON THEIR COMMITMENT TO PAYING, I THINK NOT. UNTIL WE LIMIT OUR MEETINGS, REPAIR CLINICS, SWAP MEETS TO MEMBERS ONLY, ?WITH A MEMBERSHIP CHECK AT THE DOOR, ?WE ARE LIMITING OURSELVES TO GROWTH, AS THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO ATTRACT NEW MEMBERS THAN BY SHOWING THE PERSPECTIVE NEW MEMBER ALL THE BENEFITS OF OUR CLUB. ?ROB FORTE On Jun 11, 2018, at 10:46 PM, David Sica wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Over a hundred back issues of the newsletter have been available on the website for some time now.? -- Dave On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Al Klase wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Rob, The long standing theory is that we have a number of faithful NJARC members, some in remote locations, whose primary participation is reading the Broadcaster.? I have personally done this in the past with other clubs, and remain a member of AWA. ? It's a little hard to judge the financial impact of freeing up the newsletter. I vote don't fix it if it ain't broke. Al On 6/9/2018 1:11 PM, ROBERT FORTE wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT JOHN.? WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? NONE AS I SEE IT. THOSE THAT LIKE THE CLUB WILL GLADLY FORK OVER $25/YEAR FOR DUES. AND WHAT IS THE ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-PAYING MEMBERS? DOES ANYONE CHECK MEMBERSHIP AT OUR MONTHLY MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, OR SWAP-MEETS?? NO.? SO LET THE WORLD SEE OUR BROADCASTER, LIKE ALL THE OTHER FREE POSTED VIDEOS. ROB On Jun 9, 2018, at 12:44 PM, John Dilks wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ To all and the BoardNewsletters should be free and posted on the club web page to attract new members.? If you want the club to grow, publicity works. And the newsletter is good publicity.-- ? 73, John Dilks, K2TQNWeb Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? 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URL: From oldradio at comcast.net Tue Jun 12 18:08:10 2018 From: oldradio at comcast.net (John Dilks) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:08:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1213733674.643155.1528841290544@connect.xfinity.com> Thanks to all for your input. I have reviewed all suggestions and want to add the following.... Dave Sica (below) says membership is around 200. I have gone to the museum on several occasions in the last couple of years and in my estimation very few members contribute their time there. It appears that 10 or 12 regular, dedicated, members are doing all of the work, and are doing it well. Saturdays and Sundays I don't know. But you would think that with 200 members we should have more than 5% helping out. But at the auctions a higher percentage show up, perhaps 30-50, sometimes more and sometimes less? Still not the 200 mentioned. Perhaps at the radio show in Parsippany there is a better turn out of members, I don't know? Launching a publicity drive to attract new members and making our excellent newsletter available with dates and times of activities (old newsletters don't have current events listed) to invite them to show up and see for themselves. It costs nothing to provide newsletters from our web page. No printing of brochures, etc. Our volunteer force is ageing, I've noticed, and could use more help. Some may be working way (physically) too much for their age? Wouldn't it be nice to gain another 5, 10, or 15 volunteers? Perhaps some younger members? The president should launch a publicity drive and make it happen. Maybe he can recruit a new volunteer or two to help him do that. 73, John Dilks, K2TQN _________________________________________________________ The club has always hovered around 200 members, after fairly quickly ramping up to that level in our first year. That's a healthy number by any standards but I've always wondered why we seemed to level off there. I seem to recall that the New England Club hit around 800 members, at least for a while, back in its heyday. I think a couple of other clubs also have or had significantly more members than we do. And yeah, we do have an exceptionally good club, so I've never been able to figure out why that's so. -- Dave Sica -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mattr04 at hotmail.com Tue Jun 12 18:17:08 2018 From: mattr04 at hotmail.com (Matt Reynolds) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 22:17:08 +0000 Subject: [NJARC] Club history, was: Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: <1804484470.4483082.1528838388328@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com>, <1804484470.4483082.1528838388328@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I wanted to chime in and echo the sentiment that was given earlier that it's everyone's job to be mindful of the need to keep an eye open for new members. I think most new members that I am aware of found out from a friend who was already a member, or were a walk-in from one of our events (like a repair clinic or swap meet). I personally joined because of a Craiglist ad for one of our events. I know of at least one relatively new member who joined after stumbling upon club-uploaded Youtube videos (Scope Clinic). We are actively maintaining a Facebook club page to raise awareness there as well. There's a million options for entertainment these days. It's hard enough to get the attention of people that are already interested in our hobby, it's even harder to get people that aren't familiar with it interested. The more people that are helping to spread awareness, the better. 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URL: From antqradio at sbcglobal.net Wed Jun 13 15:57:46 2018 From: antqradio at sbcglobal.net (Jim Whartenby) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:57:46 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: <1213733674.643155.1528841290544@connect.xfinity.com> References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> <1213733674.643155.1528841290544@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <1565063880.5066467.1528919866067@mail.yahoo.com> JohnYes, this is the number one problem with clubs, groups, organizations, you name it; there are just a few dedicated individuals who do the majority of the work that the rest of the group benefits from. ? This was an ongoing problem that we, as club officers, faced when NJARC was just over 4 years old. ?It was next to impossible to form a committee to do the ground work for a swapmeet. ?So the executive board took the lead. ?Seems that no one minded buying or selling at the swapmeet but gaining the experience of actually running one was a job that no one wanted to take. So 25 years on, the venue might have changed but the problems of motivating people have not. Perhaps it is like serving in the military, few do and the rest enjoy the fruits of the sacrifice. ?Those who don't serve seem to think that thanking those who did is all that is required to balance the scale, so to speak. ?I'm willing to bet that the majority of the museum docents are veterans; any takers? More on this topic later,Jim From: John Dilks To: David Sica Cc: NJARC Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free ?Thanks to all for your input. I have reviewed all suggestions and want to add the following.... Dave Sica (below) says membership is around 200.I have gone to the museum on several occasions in the last couple of years and in my estimation very few members contribute their time there.? It appears that 10 or 12 regular, dedicated, members are doing all of the work, and are doing it well.? Saturdays and Sundays I don't know.But you would think that with 200 members we should have more than 5% helping out.But at the auctions a higher percentage show up, perhaps 30-50, sometimes more and sometimes less? Still not the 200 mentioned. Perhaps at the radio show in Parsippany there is a better turn out of members, I don't know?Launching a publicity drive to attract new members and making our excellent newsletter available with dates and times of activities (old newsletters don't have current events listed) to invite them to show up and see for themselves.? It costs nothing to provide newsletters from our web page. No printing of brochures, etc.Our volunteer force is ageing, I've noticed, and could use more help. Some may be working way (physically) too much for their age?? Wouldn't it be nice to gain another 5, 10, or 15 volunteers? Perhaps some younger members?The president should launch a publicity drive and make it happen. Maybe he can recruit a new volunteer or two to help him do that.73, John Dilks, K2TQN _________________________________________________________ The club has always hovered around 200 members, after fairly quickly ramping up to that level in our first year. That's a healthy number by any standards but I've always wondered why we seemed to level off there. I seem to recall that the New England Club hit around 800 members, at least for a while, back in its heyday. I think a couple of other clubs also have or had significantly more members than we do. 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URL: From tsedergran0954 at gmail.com Wed Jun 13 16:08:22 2018 From: tsedergran0954 at gmail.com (thomas sedergran) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:08:22 -0700 Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: <1565063880.5066467.1528919866067@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> <1213733674.643155.1528841290544@connect.xfinity.com> <1565063880.5066467.1528919866067@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Perhaps the NJARC could offer incentives, such as a vintage collectible, after a docent puts in a certain number of hours. This is done at the La Brea Tar Pits. After a set number of hours, the docent (volunteer) gets a fossil found at the site. Best regards, Tom Sedergran NJARC RTM Docent On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:57 PM, Jim Whartenby wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > John > Yes, this is the number one problem with clubs, groups, organizations, you > name it; there are just a few dedicated individuals who do the majority of > the work that the rest of the group benefits from. > > This was an ongoing problem that we, as club officers, faced when NJARC > was just over 4 years old. It was next to impossible to form a committee > to do the ground work for a swapmeet. So the executive board took the > lead. Seems that no one minded buying or selling at the swapmeet but > gaining the experience of actually running one was a job that no one wanted > to take. > > So 25 years on, the venue might have changed but the problems of > motivating people have not. > > Perhaps it is like serving in the military, few do and the rest enjoy the > fruits of the sacrifice. Those who don't serve seem to think that thanking > those who did is all that is required to balance the scale, so to speak. I'm > willing to bet that the majority of the museum docents are veterans; any > takers? > > More on this topic later, > Jim > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* John Dilks > *To:* David Sica > *Cc:* NJARC > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 12, 2018 5:08 PM > *Subject:* Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free > > > Thanks to all for your input. I have reviewed all suggestions and want to > add the following.... > Dave Sica (below) says membership is around 200. > I have gone to the museum on several occasions in the last couple of years > and in my estimation very few members contribute their time there. It > appears that 10 or 12 regular, dedicated, members are doing all of the > work, and are doing it well. Saturdays and Sundays I don't know. > But you would think that with 200 members we should have more than 5% > helping out. > But at the auctions a higher percentage show up, perhaps 30-50, sometimes > more and sometimes less? Still not the 200 mentioned. Perhaps at the radio > show in Parsippany there is a better turn out of members, I don't know? > Launching a publicity drive to attract new members and making our > excellent newsletter available with dates and times of activities (old > newsletters don't have current events listed) to invite them to show up and > see for themselves. It costs nothing to provide newsletters from our web > page. No printing of brochures, etc. > Our volunteer force is ageing, I've noticed, and could use more help. Some > may be working way (physically) too much for their age? Wouldn't it be > nice to gain another 5, 10, or 15 volunteers? Perhaps some younger members? > The president should launch a publicity drive and make it happen. Maybe he > can recruit a new volunteer or two to help him do that. > 73, John Dilks, K2TQN > > > _________________________________________________________ > The club has always hovered around 200 members, after fairly quickly > ramping up to that level in our first year. That's a healthy number by any > standards but I've always wondered why we seemed to level off there. I seem > to recall that the New England Club hit around 800 members, at least for a > while, back in its heyday. I think a couple of other clubs also have or had > significantly more members than we do. And yeah, we do have an > exceptionally good club, so I've never been able to figure out why that's > so. > > -- Dave Sica > > > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mattr04 at hotmail.com Wed Jun 13 16:46:42 2018 From: mattr04 at hotmail.com (Matt Reynolds) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:46:42 +0000 Subject: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free In-Reply-To: References: <2024464968.545548.1528562674307@connect.xfinity.com> <2CE2B2E2-BFFF-4F56-8ED2-6BAE586EED70@gmail.com> <6c4a821b-edbf-9147-5760-bdccf3f19485@ar88.net> <85923076.4247208.1528817014120@mail.yahoo.com> <1213733674.643155.1528841290544@connect.xfinity.com> <1565063880.5066467.1528919866067@mail.yahoo.com>, Message-ID: If I had to venture to guess, low volunteer participation rate is a problem with all social, service, and special interest clubs. It seems to be an unfortunate constant across many organizations. Just examples from my own personal life: My whole path through Eagle Scout within my troop there were always very few of the adults of the many kids in the troop that were active leadership\volunteer participants. Same could be said of the various roles within the troop on behalf of the scouts themselves (quartermaster, patrol leader, etc.). 4-H was the same, it was very hard to get people to participate in the service-related work, or to hold the leadership roles within the club (president, secretary, treasurer, etc.). I'm in an automobile enthusiast club in addition to the NJARC. Very few members actively participate in organizing the events, setting up the events, or are willing to hold offices despite a membership size similar in numbers to the NJARC, though attendance to our events is fairly good. I'm sure there is a psychological or sociological reason as to why this occurs, but regardless of the cause, the result seems to be the same from club to club. The minority of an organization work very hard, put in more time and effort, and sacrifice more of their personal time to allow the majority to enjoy the organization and what it has to offer. We have a very hard working core group of volunteers in the club, in the museum, at IA, etc. Not only should their efforts be praised and credit gave where it's due, but it's important to be mindful of what they do, and how much they give, and to ask whether they can use more help. It's never too late to pitch in (more). Matt ________________________________ From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of thomas sedergran Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 4:08:22 PM To: Jim Whartenby Cc: njarc at mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [NJARC] Newsletters should be free Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jamespdoranjr at aol.com Wed Jun 13 17:19:30 2018 From: jamespdoranjr at aol.com (jamespdoranjr at aol.com) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 17:19:30 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] NJARC Digest, Vol 170, Issue 17 In-Reply-To: <408646777.96520.1528921435054@connect.xfinity.com> References: <408646777.96520.1528921435054@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <3AF9B5C8-8AB7-41E3-B0B4-1111E8ADDF7E@aol.com> I?m a newbie (within the last year) here, and a layman/consumer when it come to the technology, so I have followed this discussion with interest but kept quiet till now. I?d be happy to volunteer some time, however, if the occasional services of a novice newcomer were of any value. Like Ed, I just need to know: what are the needs and opportunities, and the qualifications required? Is there training? Is there a signup roster? Who do I volunteer to? What?s the time commitment? Happy to help as I can. Jim Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 13, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Ed Papson wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > 06/13/2018 > > > > The specific duties for volunteering at the museum might have been > > shared previously or are on the NJARC website. > > > > To make it easy, what exactly is required? When? and for how long? > > > > Regards, > > ed > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oldradio at comcast.net Wed Jun 13 20:18:40 2018 From: oldradio at comcast.net (John Dilks) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:18:40 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NJARC] Volunteering at Infoage & NJARC Museum In-Reply-To: <3AF9B5C8-8AB7-41E3-B0B4-1111E8ADDF7E@aol.com> References: <408646777.96520.1528921435054@connect.xfinity.com> <3AF9B5C8-8AB7-41E3-B0B4-1111E8ADDF7E@aol.com> Message-ID: <1121910462.111491.1528935520492@connect.xfinity.com> James and Ed, and everyone else, To me, the easy way is to visit the museum on a Wednesday if you can. Wednesdays are work days and you will find at least 10 members there doing just about everything. Let them know you want to volunteer and they will tell you everything. As far as I know Saturdays and Sundays the docents show the museum to visitors, and try to answer any questions they have. (If you can't make Wednesdays, ask at a meeting or visit the museum on a weekend.) One of the real exciting functions (my favorite) is to participate in a donation pickup. Some have been large clean outs of estate radio collections. There have been some that required several truck or utility trailer loads brought back to Infoage. Other opportunities are with the gang at the repair clinics. And during the meetings and auctions. And writing stories for the newsletter. Take photos at all the events. Almost anything you can do will help. And you will go home a happy person and undoubtedly will have learned something new that day. Just ask and you will have fun. As we get older the toys are bigger and more numerous. #Toomuchstuff! 73, John Dilks, K2TQN Web Site - www.k2tqn.com __ Retired - Now writing for Electric Radio Magazine _____ Former Editor Vintage Radio Column, QST Magazine 2000-2014 ________ Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again > > > > 06/13/2018 > > > > > > The specific duties for volunteering at the museum might have been > > > > shared previously or are on the NJARC website. > > > > > > To make it easy, what exactly is required? When? and for how long? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > edOn June 13, 2018 at 5:19 PM Jamespdoranjr--- via NJARC wrote: > > > > > > Just remember > > Reply = Poster > > Reply All = Everyone > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > I?m a newbie (within the last year) here, and a layman/consumer when it come to the technology, so I have followed this discussion with interest but kept quiet till now. I?d be happy to volunteer some time, however, if the occasional services of a novice newcomer were of any value. Like Ed, I just need to know: what are the needs and opportunities, and the qualifications required? Is there training? Is there a signup roster? Who do I volunteer to? What?s the time commitment? Happy to help as I can. > > > > Jim > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Jun 13, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Ed Papson wrote: > > > > > > > Just remember > > > Reply = Poster > > > Reply All = Everyone > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ark at ar88.net Thu Jun 14 12:03:32 2018 From: ark at ar88.net (Al Klase) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:03:32 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Volunteering at Infoage & NJARC Museum In-Reply-To: <1121910462.111491.1528935520492@connect.xfinity.com> References: <408646777.96520.1528921435054@connect.xfinity.com> <3AF9B5C8-8AB7-41E3-B0B4-1111E8ADDF7E@aol.com> <1121910462.111491.1528935520492@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <451c46f3-ab3a-650a-a60a-96f69e7c2879@ar88.net> Folks, Allow me to weigh in on this topic as a charter member of the Radio Technology Museum staff.? The staff is made up of those who show up and pitch in.? There are a lot of ways one can contribute:? General maintenance, designing and constructing displays, restoring specific equipment, and serving as a docent.? The latter is perhaps the most needed and time critical. InfoAge is open to the public almost every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday from 1-5 PM.? We've managed to man the Museum virtually every scheduled day for almost 10 years.? However, some times it's a problem, and we'd like to have a pool of docents big enough that one would only have to serve maybe once a month or so. Being a docent is fun, and does not require a lot of specific knowledge.? You are simply serving as host for the visitors.? You can show them the things that you like and understand.? We all come at the radio hobby from different directions.? There is a formal docent's handbook, but you can pick up a/*LOT */from just reading the signage. Yes, the museum staff may appear to be something of a clique, but it's a worthwhile and rewarding one.? John is absolutely correct, Wednesday is work day at the RTM, as well as a day we're open to the public.? If you want to better understand this institution, show up about 11AM on any Wednesday.? You can come to lunch with the gang, and we'll see if we can put you to work. Don't be shy, Al On 6/13/2018 8:18 PM, John Dilks wrote: > > James and Ed, and everyone else, > > > To me, the easy way is to visit the museum on a Wednesday if you can.? > Wednesdays are work days and you will find at least 10 members there > doing just about everything.? Let them know you want to volunteer and > they will tell you everything. As far as I know Saturdays and Sundays > the docents show the museum to visitors, and try to answer any > questions they have. (If you can't make Wednesdays, ask at a meeting > or visit the museum on a weekend.) > > > One of the real exciting functions (my favorite) is to participate in > a donation pickup. Some have been large clean outs of estate radio > collections. There have been some that required several truck or > utility trailer loads brought back to Infoage. > > > Other opportunities are with the gang at the repair clinics. And > during the meetings and auctions. And writing stories for the > newsletter. Take photos at all the events.? Almost anything you can do > will help.? And you will go home a happy person and undoubtedly will > have learned something new that day. > > > Just ask and you will have fun.? As we get older the toys are bigger > and more numerous. #Toomuchstuff! > > > *73, John Dilks, K2TQN* > > -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klancer2 at comcast.net Thu Jun 14 17:36:53 2018 From: klancer2 at comcast.net (Harry Klancer) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:36:53 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] How to Volunteer - (was NJARC] NJARC Digest, Vol 170, Issue 17) In-Reply-To: <408646777.96520.1528921435054@connect.xfinity.com> References: <408646777.96520.1528921435054@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <9a2ca576-9456-b64f-c69a-e96e06415450@comcast.net> Ed (and others), Thanks for asking. There are a number of ways to volunteer at the museum. You can do as much or as little as you are interested in doing. Following are four specific opportunities: 1.? General work around the museum on the Wednesday workdays. There are usually 6 1o 10 people there, and lots to do ranging from reorganizing displays to setting up new ones to moving items between storage and the museum to repairing radios and other museum 'stuff' in the repair shop, to ... you get the idea. We are usually there from 10 am to 5 pm, or any part of that that you can do. 2.? Working at swapmeets. For example, the next one is our outdoor tailgate at InfoAge on Saturday, July 21. We need folks ahead of time to mark out tailgate spaces in the lawn, put out signs, check people in on the morning of, collect money at the gate and provide directions, work at the coffee/bagels table, and so on. 3.? Work at the quarterly repair clinics. You can bring your tools and work as an expert if you are adept at it (schedule ahead of time with Richard Lee), or else just help manage the thing and help out in general. 4. Work as a Docent (tour guide) in the museum on our open days: Saturdays and Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm. Visitors to the museum range from people who remember the technology to those for whom it's a total mystery. Some visitors want a guided tour, and some just like to walk around and read the signage themselves. Occasionally, we also encounter a real expert who can tell US a lot about our displays. Many of the visiting groups are families with kids of various ages. We have a number of hands-on items, (and some hands-off things too) so the Docent has to be watchful of the artifacts. There is a Docent Handbook that was written some years ago that includes: a)? a general description of the job of the Docent, b)? where things such as bathrooms and doors are located, c)? procedures for opening and closing the museum, d)? the kinds of questions you might likely be asked, and so on. e)? a little history of the site The current handbook also includes some description of the displays, and history of some of the technologies. However, we have significantly reorganized the museum since that was written, so some parts of what we have now are not explained in the handbook. (We are currently writing some quick-guide material for some of the newer displays). However, if you just browse around in the museum and read the signage, you'll have a good head start. You can be a Docent as often or as seldom as is convenient for you. I send out a email request before the beginning of each month, and aggregate the responses and try to fill all the dates in a month based on those responses. If you would like to be on the request list, just send me an email and I will add you to the list. [we used to send requests to the NJARC membership. crickets ...] As for Docent training, we do not have a formal process - the usual way we handle this is to make sure you have a Docent Handbook and any other prep material ahead of time, and to schedule you to work with an experienced Docent for your first few times. Then we get you a door key, a security code and an InfoAge shirt. Any other questions, send to me, Al Klase or Ray Chase and one of us will get back to you. ??????????????????????????????? Harry Klancer ??????????????????????????????? klancer2 at comcast.net On 6/13/2018 4:23 PM, Ed Papson wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > 06/13/2018 > > > The specific duties for volunteering at the museum might have been > > shared previously or are on the NJARC website. > > > To make it easy, what exactly is required? When? and for how long? > > > Regards, > > ed > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dave.sica at njarc.org Thu Jun 14 23:54:34 2018 From: dave.sica at njarc.org (David Sica) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:54:34 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] How to Volunteer - (was NJARC] NJARC Digest, Vol 170, Issue 17) In-Reply-To: <9a2ca576-9456-b64f-c69a-e96e06415450@comcast.net> References: <408646777.96520.1528921435054@connect.xfinity.com> <9a2ca576-9456-b64f-c69a-e96e06415450@comcast.net> Message-ID: The most current version of the Docent Manual can always be found via a link at the very bottom of the home page of our website www.njarc.org. On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 5:55 PM Harry Klancer wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Ed (and others), > > Thanks for asking. There are a number of ways to volunteer at the > museum. You can do as much or as little as you are interested in > doing. Following are four specific opportunities: > > 1. General work around the museum on the Wednesday workdays. > There are usually 6 1o 10 people there, and lots to do ranging from > reorganizing displays to setting up new ones to moving items > between storage and the museum to repairing radios and other > museum 'stuff' in the repair shop, to ... you get the idea. We are > usually there from 10 am to 5 pm, or any part of that that you can do. > > 2. Working at swapmeets. For example, the next one is our outdoor > tailgate at InfoAge on Saturday, July 21. We need folks ahead of time to > mark out > tailgate spaces in the lawn, put out signs, check people in on the > morning of, collect money at the gate and provide directions, work at > the coffee/bagels table, and so on. > > 3. Work at the quarterly repair clinics. You can bring your tools and work > as an expert if you are adept at it (schedule ahead of time with Richard > Lee), > or else just help manage the thing and help out in general. > > 4. Work as a Docent (tour guide) in the museum on our open days: > Saturdays and Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm. Visitors to the museum > range from people who remember the technology to those for whom it's > a total mystery. Some visitors want a guided tour, and some just like to > walk around and read the signage themselves. Occasionally, we also > encounter a real expert who can tell US a lot about our displays. Many of > the visiting groups are families with kids of various ages. We have a > number > of hands-on items, (and some hands-off things too) so the Docent has to be > watchful of the artifacts. > > There is a Docent Handbook that was written some years ago that includes: > a) a general description of the job of the Docent, > b) where things such as bathrooms and doors are located, > c) procedures for opening and closing the museum, > d) the kinds of questions you might likely be asked, and so on. > e) a little history of the site > The current handbook also includes some description of the displays, > and history of some of the technologies. However, we have significantly > reorganized the museum since that was written, so some parts of what we > have now are not explained in the handbook. (We are currently writing > some quick-guide material for some of the newer displays). However, if you > just browse around in the museum and read the signage, you'll have a good > head start. > > You can be a Docent as often or as seldom as is convenient for you. I send > out > a email request before the beginning of each month, and aggregate the > responses > and try to fill all the dates in a month based on those responses. If you > would > like to be on the request list, just send me an email and I will add you > to the list. > [we used to send requests to the NJARC membership. crickets ...] > > As for Docent training, we do not have a formal process - the usual way we > handle this is to make sure you have a Docent Handbook and any other > prep material ahead of time, and to schedule you to work with an > experienced Docent > for your first few times. Then we get you a door key, a security code and > an > InfoAge shirt. > > Any other questions, send to me, Al Klase or Ray Chase and one of us will > get back to you. > > Harry Klancer > klancer2 at comcast.net > > > On 6/13/2018 4:23 PM, Ed Papson wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > > 06/13/2018 > > > The specific duties for volunteering at the museum might have been > > shared previously or are on the NJARC website. > > > To make it easy, what exactly is required? 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URL: From ark at ar88.net Fri Jun 15 20:33:04 2018 From: ark at ar88.net (Al Klase) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 20:33:04 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening Message-ID: Folks, SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to about 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle Donald's Hallicrafters S-20R. I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some listening. It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming in your direction in English.? A quick listen can make you thing that there nothing left but religious broadcasters. There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century.? Digital receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories are quite helpful.? And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. Here are some suggestions.? I'm listening to former pirate radio operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. ?WWCR - 9350 ?Rock 23:30Z ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters ?WRMI ? 9395 ?Rock 23:30Z ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) ?CFRX 6070 Toronto ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 ?1 KW 24/7 ?R. Romania Int.9370 ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z And some links: ?SHORT-WANE.INFO ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php ?Prime Time Shortwave ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ ?Shortwave AM ?http://shortwave.am/ If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here.? Let us know what your listening to. I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. TURN YOUR RADIO ON! Regards, Al -- Al Klase ? 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But he was really pissed later on when FCC knocked on our door at 11PM when I was bootlegging CB. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Al Klase wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Folks, > > SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to about 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle Donald's Hallicrafters S-20R. > > I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some listening. > > It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming in your direction in English. A quick listen can make you thing that there nothing left but religious broadcasters. > > There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century. Digital receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories are quite helpful. And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. > > Here are some suggestions. I'm listening to former pirate radio operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. > > ?WWCR - 9350 > ?Rock 23:30Z > ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters > ?WRMI ? 9395 > ?Rock 23:30Z > ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) > ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. > ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) > ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends > ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 > ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) > ?CFRX 6070 Toronto > ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 > ?1 KW 24/7 > ?R. Romania Int. 9370 > ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z > > > And some links: > > > > ?SHORT-WANE.INFO > ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php > ?Prime Time Shortwave > ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ > ?Shortwave AM > ?http://shortwave.am/ > > If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here. Let us know what your listening to. > I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. > > TURN YOUR RADIO ON! > > Regards, > Al > > -- > Al Klase ? N3FRQ > Jersey City, NJ > http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trainbee at aol.com Fri Jun 15 22:37:43 2018 From: trainbee at aol.com (TrainBee) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:37:43 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <16406749f4a-c90-165e3@webjas-vad165.srv.aolmail.net> Hi Al, Thanks for bringing this up. I found WRMI last year when tuning around on my Zenith TO. They have an assortment of programming. The Rock programming is generally on in the evenings from Friday to Sunday. A few weeks ago they went dark for a few days. If you don't hear them from time to time, keep trying. They have a pretty good website and are always looking for QSL reports. I'm sure you know this, and have done it, but one of the things that can be fun for everyone is to send a QSL (Reception Report) to the station you are listening to. WRMI prefers that you do this on their website, but you could send them a card to see what you get back. A thought on that is a Club QSL card from the listening station at InfoAge. Regards, Joe Devonshire AB1YO -----Original Message----- From: Al Klase To: NJARC Sent: Fri, Jun 15, 2018 8:34 pm Subject: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Folks, SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to about 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle Donald's Hallicrafters S-20R. I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some listening. It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming in your direction in English. A quick listen can make you thing that there nothing left but religious broadcasters. There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century. Digital receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories are quite helpful. And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. Here are some suggestions. I'm listening to former pirate radio operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. ?WWCR - 9350 ?Rock 23:30Z ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters ?WRMI ? 9395 ?Rock 23:30Z ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) ?CFRX 6070 Toronto ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 ?1 KW 24/7 ?R. Romania Int. 9370 ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z And some links: ?SHORT-WANE.INFO ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php ?Prime Time Shortwave ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ ?Shortwave AM ?http://shortwave.am/ If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here. Let us know what your listening to. I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. TURN YOUR RADIO ON! Regards, Al -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ark at ar88.net Sat Jun 16 10:24:08 2018 From: ark at ar88.net (Al Klase) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 10:24:08 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <515c8237-ac75-b200-758d-e44faaec0060@ar88.net> Hi Pete, Yes, Havana Cuba is alive and well on shortwave.? I heard them on a crystal set a couple of months ago. I got a chuckle out of your FBI story.? Back in the same era, some of my friends and I discovered that you could send a note to the major space-program suppliers, and get nice pictures of their products.? I remember one really vice piece on the X-15 rocket plane.? One of our guys got carried away.? He had a short form letter set up as a post-card-size rubber stamp, and mailed a bunch of them.? Sure enough, the FBI came around to see what was going on. Good listening, Al On 6/15/2018 9:10 PM, Pete via NJARC wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Radio Havana Cuba has been a mainstay for years and easy to hear on 6 > mhz every night till midnight. ?Arnie Coro CO2KK does a short 10 > minute too on ham radio topics. And still good old fashioned communist > propaganda and Anti American commentary bring back memories of Radio > Moscow. > > Speaking of which when I was 15 or so I was visited by the FBI asking > why I was writing so many letters to communist counties - Hungary, > East Germany, Russia, Czechoslavkia, ?etc. ?they even had reply > letters to me which they opened. > > My father was not pleased with that. He was pissed at me and not the > Feds. ?But he was really pissed later on when FCC knocked on our door > at 11PM when I was bootlegging CB. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 15, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Al Klase > wrote: > >> Just remember >> Reply = Poster >> Reply All = Everyone >> >> _________________________________________________________ >> Folks, >> >> SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to >> about 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle >> Donald's Hallicrafters S-20R. >> >> I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave >> broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some >> listening. >> >> It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a >> Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming >> in your direction in English.? A quick listen can make you thing that >> there nothing left but religious broadcasters. >> >> There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century.? Digital >> receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories >> are quite helpful.? And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. >> >> Here are some suggestions.? I'm listening to former pirate radio >> operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. >> >> ?WWCR - 9350 >> ?Rock 23:30Z >> ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters >> ?WRMI ? 9395 >> ?Rock 23:30Z >> ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) >> ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. >> ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) >> ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends >> ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 >> ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) >> ?CFRX 6070 Toronto >> ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 >> ?1 KW 24/7 >> ?R. Romania Int.9370 >> ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z >> >> >> And some links: >> >> >> >> ?SHORT-WANE.INFO >> ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php >> ?Prime Time Shortwave >> ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ >> ?Shortwave AM >> ?http://shortwave.am/ >> >> If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here.? Let us know >> what your listening to. >> I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. >> >> TURN YOUR RADIO ON! >> >> Regards, >> Al >> >> -- >> Al Klase ? N3FRQ >> Jersey City, NJ >> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> NJARC mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ark at ar88.net Sat Jun 16 10:40:27 2018 From: ark at ar88.net (Al Klase) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 10:40:27 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening In-Reply-To: <16406749f4a-c90-165e3@webjas-vad165.srv.aolmail.net> References: <16406749f4a-c90-165e3@webjas-vad165.srv.aolmail.net> Message-ID: <4db18a65-b6ad-c91a-a886-d8e4a023ee00@ar88.net> Hi Joe, I never got very far into the QSL scene, but I do have a Deutsche Welle sticker on one of my cabinets.? We may be able to free up a little wall space for some SWL QSL's in the short-wave display. Currently we don't explain SWL very well. Yes, we'll have to produce some QSL cards once the ham station is set up at the Museum.? The we'll need a budget for postage. ? We are licensed a W2RTM.? We'll call that a good start. Al On 6/15/2018 10:37 PM, TrainBee via NJARC wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Hi Al, > > ? ? Thanks for bringing this up.? I found WRMI last year when tuning > around on my Zenith TO.? They have an assortment of programming.? The > Rock programming is generally on in the evenings from Friday to > Sunday.? ?A few weeks ago they went dark for a few days.? If you don't > hear them from time to time, keep trying.? They have a pretty good > website and are always looking for QSL reports. > > ? ? I'm sure you know this, and have done it, but one of the things > that can be fun for everyone is to send a QSL (Reception Report) to > the station you are listening to.? WRMI prefers that you do this on > their website, but you could send them a card to see what you get back. > > ? ? A thought on that is a Club QSL card from the listening station at > InfoAge. > > Regards, > Joe Devonshire? ? AB1YO > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Klase > To: NJARC > Sent: Fri, Jun 15, 2018 8:34 pm > Subject: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Folks, > > SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to > about 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle > Donald's Hallicrafters S-20R. > > I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave > broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some > listening. > > It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a > Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming in > your direction in English.? A quick listen can make you thing that > there nothing left but religious broadcasters. > > There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century.? Digital > receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories > are quite helpful.? And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. > > Here are some suggestions.? I'm listening to former pirate radio > operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. > > ?WWCR - 9350 > ?Rock 23:30Z > ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters > ?WRMI ? 9395 > ?Rock 23:30Z > ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) > ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. > ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) > ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends > ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 > ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) > ?CFRX 6070 Toronto > ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 > ?1 KW 24/7 > ?R. Romania Int.9370 > ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z > > > And some links: > > > > ?SHORT-WANE.INFO > ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php > ?Prime Time Shortwave > ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ > ?Shortwave AM > ?http://shortwave.am/ > > If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here. Let us know what > your listening to. > I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. > > TURN YOUR RADIO ON! > > Regards, > Al > > -- > Al Klase ? N3FRQ > Jersey City, NJ > http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Back in the same era, some of my friends and I discovered that you could send a note to the major space-program suppliers, and get nice pictures of their products.? I remember one really vice piece on the X-15 rocket plane.? One of our guys got carried away.? He had a short form letter set up as a post-card-size rubber stamp, and mailed a bunch of them.? Sure enough, the FBI came around to see what was going on. Good listening, Al On 6/15/2018 9:10 PM, Pete via NJARC wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Radio Havana Cuba has been a mainstay for years and easy to hear on 6 mhz every night till midnight. ?Arnie Coro CO2KK does a short 10 minute too on ham radio topics. And still good old fashioned communist propaganda and Anti American commentary bring back memories of Radio Moscow.? Speaking of which when I was 15 or so I was visited by the FBI asking why I was writing so many letters to communist counties - Hungary, East Germany, Russia, Czechoslavkia, ?etc. ?they even had reply letters to me which they opened. ?? My father was not pleased with that. He was pissed at me and not the Feds. ?But he was really pissed later on when FCC knocked on our door at 11PM when I was bootlegging CB.? Sent from my iPhone On Jun 15, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Al Klase wrote: Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ Folks, SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to about 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle Donald's Hallicrafters S-20R. I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some listening. It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming in your direction in English.? A quick listen can make you thing that there nothing left but religious broadcasters. There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century.? Digital receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories are quite helpful.? And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. Here are some suggestions.? I'm listening to former pirate radio operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. ?WWCR - 9350 ?Rock 23:30Z ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters ?WRMI ? 9395 ?Rock 23:30Z ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) ?CFRX 6070 Toronto ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 ?1 KW 24/7 ?R. Romania Int.? 9370 ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z And some links: ?SHORT-WANE.INFO ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php ?Prime Time Shortwave ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ ?Shortwave AM ?http://shortwave.am/ If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here.? Let us know what your listening to. I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. TURN YOUR RADIO ON! Regards, Al -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alan.wolke at gmail.com Sat Jun 16 15:14:10 2018 From: alan.wolke at gmail.com (Alan Wolke) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 15:14:10 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] NJARC Digest, Vol 170, Issue 21 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I?ve also come across some ?Golden Age of Radio? programs occasionally on 5890. Old variety programs, comedies, etc. Alan On Friday, June 15, 2018, wrote: > Send NJARC mailing list submissions to > njarc at mailman.qth.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > njarc-request at mailman.qth.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > njarc-owner at mailman.qth.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of NJARC digest..." > > > Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org > _______________________________________________ > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Short Wave Listening (Pete) > 2. Re: Short Wave Listening (TrainBee) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:10:26 -0400 > From: Pete > To: Al Klase > Cc: NJARC at MAILMAN.QTH.NET > Subject: Re: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Radio Havana Cuba has been a mainstay for years and easy to hear on 6 mhz > every night till midnight. Arnie Coro CO2KK does a short 10 minute too on > ham radio topics. And still good old fashioned communist propaganda and > Anti American commentary bring back memories of Radio Moscow. > > Speaking of which when I was 15 or so I was visited by the FBI asking why > I was writing so many letters to communist counties - Hungary, East > Germany, Russia, Czechoslavkia, etc. they even had reply letters to me > which they opened. > > My father was not pleased with that. He was pissed at me and not the > Feds. But he was really pissed later on when FCC knocked on our door at > 11PM when I was bootlegging CB. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 15, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Al Klase wrote: > > > > Just remember > > Reply = Poster > > Reply All = Everyone > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Folks, > > > > SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to about > 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle Donald's > Hallicrafters S-20R. > > > > I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave > broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some > listening. > > > > It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a > Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming in your > direction in English. A quick listen can make you thing that there nothing > left but religious broadcasters. > > > > There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century. Digital > receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories are > quite helpful. And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. > > > > Here are some suggestions. I'm listening to former pirate radio > operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. > > > > ?WWCR - 9350 > > ?Rock 23:30Z > > ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters > > ?WRMI ? 9395 > > ?Rock 23:30Z > > ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) > > ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. > > ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) > > ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends > > ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 > > ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) > > ?CFRX 6070 Toronto > > ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 > > ?1 KW 24/7 > > ?R. Romania Int. 9370 > > ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z > > > > > > And some links: > > > > > > > > ?SHORT-WANE.INFO > > ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php > > ?Prime Time Shortwave > > ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ > > ?Shortwave AM > > ?http://shortwave.am/ > > > > If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here. Let us know what > your listening to. > > I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. > > > > TURN YOUR RADIO ON! > > > > Regards, > > Al > > > > -- > > Al Klase ? N3FRQ > > Jersey City, NJ > > http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > NJARC mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: attachments/20180615/42e04237/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:37:43 -0400 > From: TrainBee > To: ark at ar88.net, NJARC at MAILMAN.QTH.NET > Subject: Re: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening > Message-ID: <16406749f4a-c90-165e3 at webjas-vad165.srv.aolmail.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Al, > > > Thanks for bringing this up. I found WRMI last year when tuning > around on my Zenith TO. They have an assortment of programming. The Rock > programming is generally on in the evenings from Friday to Sunday. A few > weeks ago they went dark for a few days. If you don't hear them from time > to time, keep trying. They have a pretty good website and are always > looking for QSL reports. > > > I'm sure you know this, and have done it, but one of the things that > can be fun for everyone is to send a QSL (Reception Report) to the station > you are listening to. WRMI prefers that you do this on their website, but > you could send them a card to see what you get back. > > > A thought on that is a Club QSL card from the listening station at > InfoAge. > > > > Regards, > Joe Devonshire AB1YO > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Al Klase > To: NJARC > Sent: Fri, Jun 15, 2018 8:34 pm > Subject: [NJARC] Short Wave Listening > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > Folks, > > SWL has been an important influence in my life all the way back to > about 1958 when I had the first opportunity to play with my Uncle > Donald's Hallicrafters S-20R. > > I recent years I've been bemoaning the demise of short-wave > broadcasting, but recently I resolved to stop complaining and do some > listening. > > It's not like the old days, when you could tune down the band with a > Knight Kit Ocean Hopper, and easily hear most of the world, beaming in > your direction in English. A quick listen can make you thing that there > nothing left but religious broadcasters. > > There's still SWL'ing to be done here in the 21st Century. Digital > receivers are really helpful to get to the desired freq, and memories > are quite helpful. And, there are a lot of helpful resources on the Web. > > Here are some suggestions. I'm listening to former pirate radio > operator, Alan Wiener, who went ligit and operates WBCQ (7490) as I type. > > > ?WWCR - 9350 > > ?Rock 23:30Z > > ?Brokered time to foreign broadcasters > > ?WRMI ? 9395 > > ?Rock 23:30Z > > ?WTWW ? 5085 (evenings) > > ?Watch for Ham Radio related programs. > > ?WBCQ ? 7490 (evenings) > > ?Rock music and other secular stuff. ? Especially Weekends > > ?Radio New Zealand Int. ? 13,840 > > ?20:51 - 23:58Z (except Saturday?) > > ?CFRX 6070 Toronto > > ?SW outlet of CFRB - News Talk 1010 > > ?1 KW 24/7 > > ?R. Romania Int. 9370 > > ?00:00-00:57Z & 03:00-03:57Z > > > And some links: > > > > > ?SHORT-WANE.INFO > > ?http://www.short-wave.info/index.php > > ?Prime Time Shortwave > > ?https://www.primetimeshortwave.com/ > > ?Shortwave AM > > ?http://shortwave.am/ > > If this floats yo boat, we can discuss further here. Let us know > what your listening to. > I can even set up a webpage to support our activities. > > TURN YOUR RADIO ON! > > Regards, > Al > > > -- > Al Klase ? N3FRQ > Jersey City, NJ > http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: attachments/20180615/88b4de29/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > NJARC at mailman.qth.net > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > > > End of NJARC Digest, Vol 170, Issue 21 > ************************************** > -- ------------------------------------- Alan Wolke - W2AEW http://www.youtube.com/w2aew ARRL Life Member - Technical Coordinator for NNJ Section -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It?s public material - hand it over and mind ya business. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2018, at 5:28 PM, Comcast Email John wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Thanks Alex, > The paranoid appreciate this link. But in requesting, -- this might start another investigation? ???. Oh woah is me! To do or not to do? Maybe I'll just use somebody elses name. > > 73, John -- Sent from my Tablet > > On Jun 16, 2018 5:18 PM, Alex Magoun wrote: > Joe, and the rest of you dangerous American citizens, > > No time like the present for a FOIA: https://rightsanddissent.org/resource/how-to-submit-a-foia-request/. > > best, Alex > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I don't think the GT's will make any real difference.? The input capacitances on the 6K7/6K7GT are just slightly different, so you might want to touch up the IF tuning. The metal base shell on the GT's is connected to pin 1, so the shields are functional. Al On 6/18/2018 2:11 PM, William S Zukowski wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > Repairing a Belmont 686 where both the 6K7 (IF amp) and 6Q7 (2d det., > 1st audio) have bee replaced with GT tubes and metal shields slipped > over the tube onto the metal base. > > The radio is very alive, but I have not yet done an alignment. Any > opinions on the tubes?? Replace with metal tubes, leave the shields on > / off? > > Considering their functions, I really don't think this is an issue? > > Thanks, > Bill > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- Al Klase ? N3FRQ Jersey City, NJ http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: dkfdpbfgngldabck.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 15685 bytes Desc: not available URL: From oldradio at comcast.net Sat Jun 23 06:36:43 2018 From: oldradio at comcast.net (John Dilks) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:36:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NJARC] What is this strange thing? Message-ID: <21291403.46529.1529750203680@connect.xfinity.com> 73, John Dilks, K2TQN Web Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 491169 bytes Desc: not available URL: From wvanstev at optonline.net Sat Jun 23 11:00:01 2018 From: wvanstev at optonline.net (Bill VanSteveninck) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:00:01 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Pictures on email submissions Message-ID: <5C4C3085-B07F-4F7F-ADB2-C3242FFF8587@optonline.net> Why is it, that most of the time, pictures don?t show show up in my emails? For example; this little box, with the question mark in it, shows up instead: Today's Topics: 1. What is this strange thing? (John Dilks)?. 73, John Dilks, K2TQN Bill Van Steveninck (HARPS) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oldradio at comcast.net Sat Jun 23 11:22:44 2018 From: oldradio at comcast.net (John Dilks) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:22:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NJARC] Pictures on email submissions In-Reply-To: <5C4C3085-B07F-4F7F-ADB2-C3242FFF8587@optonline.net> References: <5C4C3085-B07F-4F7F-ADB2-C3242FFF8587@optonline.net> Message-ID: <516421272.49706.1529767364358@connect.xfinity.com> Hi Bill, The last photo was a PNG file. This one below is a JPG file. If you see my QSL photo then ... It may be your email viewer does not show PNG files, and does show JPG files (I'm assuming?) Try changing your viewer,that may help? 73, John Dilks, K2TQN Web Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. > On June 23, 2018 at 11:00 AM Bill VanSteveninck wrote: > > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Why is it, that most of the time, pictures don?t show show up in my emails? > > For example; this little box, with the question mark in it, shows up instead: > > Today's Topics: > 1. What is this strange thing? (John Dilks)?. > > > > > 73, John Dilks, K2TQN > > > Bill Van Steveninck (HARPS)______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth .net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Instead of using my Apple browser, I went to my email provider, Optimum, and looked at my emails there. I downloaded ?downloads.? I must admit, I was surprised not to see a piece of hardware. Bill Van Steveninck? Thanks for the lightning response. >> >> Today's Topics: >> What is this strange thing? (John Dilks)?. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oldradio at comcast.net Sat Jun 23 14:26:22 2018 From: oldradio at comcast.net (John Dilks) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:26:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NJARC] Picture recovered In-Reply-To: <41B6E3D4-F9D7-430D-922B-4E3B259F3D3B@optonline.net> References: <41B6E3D4-F9D7-430D-922B-4E3B259F3D3B@optonline.net> Message-ID: <1784223403.52182.1529778382127@connect.xfinity.com> Hi Bill, Glad we figured it out. On no hardware, I guess I thought it extra funny (or not) was that at work in my job back in 1963 with Western Electric, some of the wise guys always tried to hand the soldering iron over - hot end first. We found ways to get even (like hide their car keys -or- go in their car and turn everything on when they were still inside work; wipers, radio with volume all the way up, direction signals on, etc. Panic for them when they started their car. They got the message.) later and they usually stopped. If you were thin-skinned, you didn't last long there. I made it 38 years. ? 73, John Dilks, K2TQN Web Site - www.k2tqn.com Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. > On June 23, 2018 at 12:24 PM Bill VanSteveninck wrote: > > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > Did manage to see image. Instead of using my Apple browser, I went to my email provider, > > Optimum, and looked at my emails there. I downloaded ?downloads.? I must admit, I was > > surprised not to see a piece of hardware. Bill Van Steveninck? Thanks for the lightning response. > > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > > > > 1. What is this strange thing? (John Dilks)?. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth .net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmalvasi at aol.com Sat Jun 23 14:47:22 2018 From: pmalvasi at aol.com (Pete) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:47:22 +0200 Subject: [NJARC] What is this strange thing? In-Reply-To: <21291403.46529.1529750203680@connect.xfinity.com> References: <21291403.46529.1529750203680@connect.xfinity.com> Message-ID: <6BB5334E-803A-41A8-B3EE-94EEF9975CC8@aol.com> Haha. Usually I smell burning shirt first and wonder ... then Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2018, at 12:36 PM, John Dilks wrote: > > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > > > > 73, John Dilks, K2TQN > > Web Site - www.k2tqn.com > Having fun smelling hot rosin and solder again. > > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Do you intend to use solid or stranded wire? ?Is the plan to use different wire colors or use a single wire color? ?I have roll of white wire, 18 AWG stranded, which is probably a lifetime supply for me. ?How much do you think you will need?Jim From: Jfrankd To: njarc at mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 9:38 PM Subject: [NJARC] Help needed What is the recommendation on rewiring an 80 year old radio.? Is 300 volt rated wire ok or should 600 volt wire be used?? Power supply voltage is 260VDC. ? ?Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html | | Virus-free. www.avast.com | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mike269sparks at aol.com Wed Jun 27 23:41:19 2018 From: mike269sparks at aol.com (mike269sparks at aol.com) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:41:19 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Rewire a 80 year old radio Message-ID: <164447b2892-c93-1085e@webjas-vac033.srv.aolmail.net> 300 volt is more than enough Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From antqradio at sbcglobal.net Thu Jun 28 15:21:27 2018 From: antqradio at sbcglobal.net (Jim Whartenby) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:21:27 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] Covering on wood cases References: <1974550731.3895897.1530213687892.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1974550731.3895897.1530213687892@mail.yahoo.com> I have a Heathkit TT-1 which had it's lid crushed and it evidently was exposed to moisture in basement or shed storage. ?The chassis looks pretty good, no rust or corrosion is evident. ?The broken bits of wood have been repaired with good old Elmer's glue. ? All that is left to do is replace the covering. ?Does anyone know of a suitable replacement? ?Don't even know what the covering is called! ?Looks like a cross between paper and fabric. ?None of the corners are folded so I wonder if the fabric is put on wet or damp?Any help or suggestions welcome,Jim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I ultimately cheaped out and never recovered my amp (was going to go with tweed tolex and snazz it up a bit), but I bailed and moved on to one of my other thousand projects\interests\hobbies and forgot about it. Matt ________________________________ From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Jim Whartenby Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:21:27 PM To: NJARC at mailman.qth.net Subject: [NJARC] Covering on wood cases Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From davesica at gmail.com Thu Jun 28 23:49:19 2018 From: davesica at gmail.com (David Sica) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:49:19 -0400 Subject: [NJARC] Covering on wood cases In-Reply-To: <1974550731.3895897.1530213687892@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1974550731.3895897.1530213687892.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1974550731.3895897.1530213687892@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I remembered reading this a while back about recovering a TransOceanic: http://elmphotography.com/radios/ZTOrecover.pdf Also: http://www.antiqueradio.com/restore_1-97.html http://gn4radios.com/shop/reproduction-parts/ Good luck with it! -- Dave On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 3:23 PM Jim Whartenby wrote: > Just remember > Reply = Poster > Reply All = Everyone > > _________________________________________________________ > I have a Heathkit TT-1 which had it's lid crushed and it evidently was > exposed to moisture in basement or shed storage. The chassis looks pretty > good, no rust or corrosion is evident. The broken bits of wood have been > repaired with good old Elmer's glue. > > All that is left to do is replace the covering. Does anyone know of a > suitable replacement? Don't even know what the covering is called! Looks > like a cross between paper and fabric. None of the corners are folded so I > wonder if the fabric is put on wet or damp? > Any help or suggestions welcome, > Jim > ______________________________________________________________ > NJARC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From antqradio at sbcglobal.net Fri Jun 29 02:27:52 2018 From: antqradio at sbcglobal.net (Jim Whartenby) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [NJARC] Covering on wood cases In-Reply-To: References: <1974550731.3895897.1530213687892.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1974550731.3895897.1530213687892@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1738637834.144340.1530253672074@mail.yahoo.com> MattThanks for the heads up. ?Now looking through Youtube videos to get an idea on how to do the job!Thanks,Jim From: Matt Reynolds To: "NJARC at mailman.qth.net" ; Jim Whartenby Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [NJARC] Covering on wood cases #yiv5161033777 #yiv5161033777 -- P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv5161033777 Jim, I went down a similar path a few years ago when I was working on restoring a PA amp.? The fabric was torn and ugly and I was going to replace it and recover it myself. I can't tell from the few pictures I found on google images if it's the same stuff on the TT1, but if it's similar to the covering on things like PA Amps and portal record players, you might have luck from guitar amp restoration shops.? They call the material Tolex. I ultimately cheaped out and never recovered my amp (was going to go with tweed tolex and snazz it up a bit), but I bailed and moved on to one of my other thousand projects\interests\hobbies and forgot about it. Matt From: njarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Jim Whartenby Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 3:21:27 PM To: NJARC at mailman.qth.net Subject: [NJARC] Covering on wood cases?Just remember Reply = Poster Reply All = Everyone _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ NJARC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/njarc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:NJARC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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