[Thursday] Steam Up

[w1nzr at cs.com]

I think it was a very successful Steam-up. I ran an impromptu experiment of starting a restoration on a piece of museum equipment (BC 348 WW2 radio receiver) by removing it's dynamotor to check the 80 year old bearings and re-grease them. I did this on the table across where Ken and Tom were operating N1EPJ, the Massie ham radio club station. Over the course of the day, I disassembled and serviced the dynamotor and quite a few people stoped and inquired as to what I was doing, which started numerous interesting conversations.... SO, we had a busy day at PJ with Craig, Ken, Tom and myself interacting with the visitors all day......
BB


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From: Craig Moody via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
To: Arzoo623 WebRight <arzoo623 at webrightservices.net>
Cc: Michael Thompson via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
Sent: Sun, Oct 6, 2019 8:57 am
Subject: Re: [Thursday] Steam Up

The Wireless Building and Massie Station were very much alive yesterday as well. People enjoyed watching us trying to make radio contacts whether we succeeded or not. The Morse code table drew an enthusiastic and interested crowd all day long. I didn’t get out much, but the atmosphere seemed perfect for a Fall Steamup day!
Craig
On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 11:16 AM Arzoo623 WebRight via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

Those headphones wires were made by shoelace companies in Rhode Island in the 20’s Crescent Braid for instance. The casing is very similar to a shoelace.
Len

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On Oct 6, 2019, at 10:51 AM, Chris Prata <chrisprata at live.com> wrote:


I also agree that yesterday went very well!
I was able to attend one of Ernie's full presentations, and some of the Fitchburg and some of the Corliss as well.
I'd like to transcribe what is presented for all the major exhibits and create an outline as well as a timeline for future presenters, steam and wireless. 
May have mentioned that recently I spent an afternoon with a very experienced retired radio and TV technician (regarding resurrecting a TRF set I picked up)  who had a wealth of information about how equipment was made going all the way back to the turn of the century what it was used for what the norms were, just a ton of interesting and fascinating details.
For example how those softy soft headset wires were made and how to terminate them is a topic in itself. 
Wish I had taken notes.
But that kind of information, properly documented not only keeps it from getting lost but then can comprise a nice organized menu of topics including how much time each topic may take.
Maybe it's just my IBM Data Center experience but it's very helpful to have presentation topics documented in an organized way for future staff, and possibly even including citations for any visiting researchers.












On October 6, 2019 10:21:09 AM Michael Thompson via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org> wrote:
Overall I think that it went very well.

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