Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Oct 21 2022 08:59:35 Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2347 for Friday, October 21st, 2022 Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2347, with a release date of Friday, October 21st, 2022 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. An emerging science and technology center gets a major financial boost. A new book takes a deeper look at QSL cards -- and some surprises for Halloween, as the holiday approaches. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2347, comes your way right now. ** BILLBOARD CART ** BOOST FOR MAKING TESLA LAB A GLOBAL SCIENCE CENTER JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week's report with news that the former laboratory of inventor Nikola Tesla has received major funding to further its development into a major science and technology center. Kevin Trotman, N5PRE, has that story. KEVIN: Designed by the noted architect Stanford White at the turn of the previous century and a welcoming place today for scientists, historians and amater radio operators, the former laboratory of 20th century innovator Nikola Tesla has been chosen to receive a $500,000 grant from the National Parks Service and the National Endowment of the Arts. The funds will be used to help pay for restoration of the Long Island, New York property and transform it into a museum and educational science center honoring the spirit of Tesla's groundbreaking work. Known as Wardenclyffe Lab, it became the home to many of Tesla's discoveries in radio and other aspects of technology. He had created the Long Island lab as a kind of "radio city" with the goal of transmitting electricity and information wirelessly. The site was especially well-known for a transmitter tower that was 187 feet high above ground and reached 120 feet below ground level. That tower is long since gone. This is Tesla's only surviving laboratory and it is a landmark, having been added to the US National Historic Register in 2018. Amateur radio has an active interest in the property as well and the site recently hosted the 75th anniversary celebration and special event station of the Suffolk County Radio Club. I'm Kevin Trotman, N5PRE. (LONG ISLAND BUSINESS.COM) ** BOOK SHOWCASES QSL CARDS' DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY JIM/ANCHOR: If you enjoy sending and receiving QSL cards, you're not alone. This next story from Jack Parker, W8ISH, celebrates the art of those still-popular cards. JACK: The legacy of Charles Hellman, W2RP, continues. At the time Charlie became a Silent Key in 2017, the 106-year-old New York amateur was considered the oldest amateur in the US and likely the longest licensed. Active almost right up to the year he died, Charlie amassed a collection of QSL cards that, so many years later, is now carrying a different message to the world, one about graphic design and communication between people. One hundred fifty cards in Charlie's collection, which were later purchased by a designer visiting a local antique shop, are now the subject of a soon-to-be published book on typography and graphics. Its title: "QSL: Do you Confirm Receipt of My Transmission?" The collection's owner, Roger Bova, made the cards available to Standards Manual, an independent publisher in Brooklyn, New York that specializes in books about design history. The book features the simple, bold design of the card from RBØHZ, confirming a 1986 contact on 20m, SSB. In contrast, there is a whimsical, cartoonish card from DM3EJ for a 1979 SSB contact on 10m. Many of the pages are full and rich and colorful. The publisher's cofounder, Jesse Reed, told PrintMag.com in a recent interview that the cards are as much a study in design as in communication in the age before the internet took hold. They are presented, in the book, in chronological order. No doubt Charlie, a retired New York City educator, might be pleased to know he is still providing a means for people everywhere to expand their knowledge. This is Jack Parker, W8ISH. (STANDARDS MANUAL, PRINTMAG.COM, QCWA) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (454:1/33) .