[Thursday] Engine show

[Randall Snow]

Regarding the Seaport for the weekend,  I think it went pretty well.  We
had a good amount of interest in the Shipman engine.  It ran beautifully
for the majority of the two days.  Some of the Seaport organization team
were particularly interested as they had never heard of the Shipman, and
were glad to see something new, and have to do a bit of research on it
themselves.  It was unfortunate that it rained so much on Saturday, but
Sunday was very nice.  Scott and his team were nice enough to put the
engine under a tent between their water pumping engine and the steering
gear.  The tent was great for staying out of the rain, but I also think
people thought it was off limits and were sometimes hesitant to come into
the tent.  I took a pile of flyers and put them on the model table inside
for people to grab as well as handing them out outside.  All in all I think
it was a great weekend, and has me thinking about what more we could do for
outreach.

Randy

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 9:02 AM Randall Snow <
pleaseleaveamessage4me at gmail.com> wrote:

> Craig,
>
> I had the thought the other day that perhaps we could put an announcement
> out there from Massie about the Steam Up.  It would be particularly
> effective if there was some known frequency that was heavily used locally,
> but that is certainly outside my realm.  Cooler still would be hooking up
> some piece of equipment similar to the Creed transmitter.... if we have
> anything... that could broadcast a message repeatedly.  Then we post a
> video of that to the YouTube channel.
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:25 PM Craig Moody via Thursday <
> thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
>
>> Just to update all of the newer volunteers, our Massie Station secured a
>> new call sign last year of N1EPJ. We are listed as the Massie Wireless
>> Radio Club. We had the four members necessary to be considered a club.
>> Anyone who would also like to be listed as a member, please let me know.
>>
>> As amateur radio station, N1EPJ is operational. Last year we also
>> replaced the collapsed antenna. We now have an OCF (off-center-fed) dipole
>> for use on the amateur bands.
>>
>> I am still in the process of obtaining new QSL cards to send out to any
>> contacts we make from the Massie Station. It’s not a necessary thing these
>> days but the cards help to preserve the old-school method of acknowledging
>> contacts, as does the station logbook. It’s a nice way to see an account of
>> the activity of the station.
>>
>> Although station activity has been minimal since becoming operational
>> again, my plan was, and still is, to get on the air for an hour or so early
>> Thursday mornings before getting busy with projects. Also, it is quite
>> feasible that we could operate Massie as a Field Day station with a bunch
>> of hams next June. Field Day to amateur radio is like what Steam up is to
>> the Museum. It’s a big radio weekend.
>>
>> Along those lines, a remote station at Point Judith would be cool. We can
>> talk about that on Thursday.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Craig
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 6:27 PM Chris Prata via Thursday <
>> thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> this is good and I will take this opportunity to remind that we may have
>>> a project in the hopper to make PJ able to transmit again legally and have
>>> a remote site running (perhaps at point judith site with a modern rig, or
>>> even semi modern 40's tube set) to show messaging back and forth which I
>>> think would be a GREAT action exhibit...
>>>
>>> we could even have a skype running to show PJ site as it keys message
>>> back to EG PJ station!
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Thursday <thursday-bounces at newsm.org> on behalf of Ernie via
>>> Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
>>> *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2019 5:07 PM
>>> *To:* Thursday Group <thursday at newsm.org>; Timothy Straw <
>>> steamdillo at gmail.com>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Thursday] Engine show
>>>
>>> Small exhibitor turn out.
>>> Lots of museum visitors on Sunday as it was a good day weather wise.
>>> I am told it poured most of Sat afternoon.
>>> However from our (NEWSM) standpoint it was good. Lots of interest in
>>> events at our museum. Especially upcoming Steamup.
>>>
>>> I noticed at our last Open Saturday and at Mystic Seaport on Sunday the
>>> interest level seems to be higher with the female gender than the guys.
>>> Both Steam and Wireless however a little more towards the wireless side
>>> of our collection. Talking about wireless history and especially PJ.
>>>
>>> Ernie
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, August 19, 2019, 4:44:44 PM EDT, Timothy Straw via Thursday <
>>> thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> How did things go at Mystic Seaport?
>>> Tim
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