K3NEM Finds a New Home

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Downsizing and Relocating Your Club

The National Electronics Museum

• Created by Westinghouse employees to honor the company’s development of RADAR in World War II - - 501(c)(3)
• Supported by Westinghouse and Northrop Grumman
• Small fulltime staff supported by a cadre of volunteers
• An operating ham radio station and an active radio club (ARCNEM)
• Outdoor displays of RADAR and the Westinghouse test plane
• Seven indoor galleries (15,000 square feet)

Sabreliner and First Gallery

Seven Galleries in Linthicum

• Hands-on and early discoveries
• Wired to Wireless communications
• WWII RADAR
• Transition to solid state RADARs
• Jamming devices
• SONAR
• Space

Activities

• Visitors
• Researchers
• STEM teaching and school field trips
• Special tours - - for example Honor Flight, schools, clubs
• Special events – swap meets, Rubik’s cube, radio boats
• Ham radio licensing -
• Ham radio events – Pearl Harbor/D-Day/Titanic/enigma/FD

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Where should NEM go?

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• Lobby to stay where we are?
• Go out of business?
• Find commercial space?
• Partner with someone else?

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• Yikes - - Three years to search and find a location

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The ARCNEM Transition Questions

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• Can the ARCNEM stay with the Museum or should it go it alone?

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• ARCNEM evaluated several potential club site locations.

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• Where and how to move a robust, successful, museum with its staff, equipment, and programs to a new location?

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• How will the club fit into the new scheme?

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The Computer Museum at System Source

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• Private Museum in Hunt Valley, MD
• Displays of the history of computer technology
• Open to visitors and group tours
• Quarterly tech repair weekends and swap meets
• Mutually supporting mission, subject matter, and audience

Counting Machines

UNIVAC�front and back

DEC and CRAY

Personal Computers�IBM and MAC

Fixing the Old Stuff Teaching the Kids

The New NEM

• Smaller space and no outside displays
• Still laying out exhibits
• Recruiting volunteers as docents
• The Ham interests have helped shape the transition

New NEM Space in Transition

Displays are coming along

The Old K3NEM Spark Gap�before and after

Ham Shack operating at WFD

The new Ham Shack checklist

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😀 Space

😀 RF noise

😕 Antenna

😁 Pearl Harbor event 2023

😁 Winter Field Day

🙁 Second operating station

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😢 Membership

😄 Partnership

😳 Finances

🤔 Volunteers

🧑‍🎓 Ham Licensing

🧑‍💻 STEM

NEM and K3NEM are Opening this Fall

We’ve come a long way – �And there’s a long way to go

• We welcome new members
• We have an open operating station
• We have terrific displays of old and new electronics
• You should take some time to see both the analog and digital historical museums
• We would be pleased to arrange a tour of both museums for CARA

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NEM Warehouse Sale

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Friday March 8 - Saturday 9th from 10am-3pm

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BWI Logistics Warehouse & Transportation:

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4733 Trident Court, Halethorpe, MD 21227

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We Need Volunteers

• Tour Guides & Educators

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• Artifact Handlers: Cataloging + Inventory

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• Gallery Setup: Electrical, Carpentry, Mover Skills needed

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• Offsite Warehouse Inventory + Artifact Sales

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Information and Addresses

National Electronics Museum

338 Clubhouse Road

Hunt Valley, MD 21031

www.NationalElectronicsMuseum.org

www.K3NEM.org

GPS = 39.486481, -76.663266

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Computer Museum at System Source

338 Clubhouse Road

Hunt Valley, MD 21031

www.museum.syssrc.com

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