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To: MrsEmmaPeel
No, ma'am. I haven't forgotten my training. I can still build a Colpitts oscillator from a triode, a #2 pencil, and the foil from a cigarette pack. (not much call for that these days)

And not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm not a young'un, you are just older than dirt.

/johnny

74 posted on 01/28/2011 11:04:42 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I can take an old ignition coil with cotact points, a battery and a small TV antenna and I can make Morse code appear on any car with an AM radio.

I remember when I was younger many a time when certain cars drove by that the AM radio in our car would pick up the RPM static from unshielded high voltage ignition systems.


90 posted on 01/29/2011 2:23:27 AM PST by Eye of Unk
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