The FReeper Foxhole Studies Foxhole and POW Radios - November 6th, 2004

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[PhilDragoo]

Borden Radio Company
BUILD A CORNELL WW-II FOXHOLE RADIO

Several people wrote in to QST magazine about foxhole radios during World War II. Among those was young Lieutenant Paul M. Cornell, W8EFW, who wrote of a design he used in the Pacific in 1945. It was one of the first such articles that mentioned using a pencil lead for a contact. This Borden Radio Company kit is named after him in appreciation for his article in the September, 1945 issue of QST Magazine.

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Also, build McGuyver's transpacific fiber optic decrypto tap and satellite uplink using one (1) each Paper Clip, tomato soup can (it's the acid), a Dixie Chicks cassette pulled out and wrapped tightly around John Edward's neck brace (John Edwards not included).

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This afternoon Innovations (sponsored by Siemens) covered the development of the fiber optic cable, noting that more capacity exists than is being utilized, encouraging all patriots to blog more, post more graphics, use five servings of Blackberries a day.

PSAs being produced using celebrities, e.g., Jonnny Five, Data, holograms of Isaac Asimov.

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What Ronald Reagan was to the Cold War, so will George W. Bush be to the War on Terror. Now this:

[Chemist_Geek]

Ping to post 29!

[Chemist_Geek]

Shunt feeding the flagpole? A 7 MHz vertical?

[snippy_about_it]

So there is a flag on Mars after all. LOL.

[snippy_about_it]

Wow, great radio and really neat that you built one with spiderboy, he'll remember that always I bet.

You have a telegraph system too? Geez, all I ever had was a piece of string and two cans.

[snippy_about_it]

Ham radio has always sounded like fun.

[snippy_about_it]

a Dixie Chicks cassette pulled out and wrapped tightly around John Edward's neck brace

LOL.

[SAMWolf]

Ditto to what you said.

I hope there's a way we can get back at least some of that way of life in America.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Eastbound. In the day of the cell phone, Internet and satellite communcations, it's hard to believe that Morse Code isn't all that far in the past..

[SAMWolf]

Evening stand watie.

Free Dixie!

[SAMWolf]

Evening Matt

Those voting for comrade Jaruzelski, put your hands down and go away from against the wall!

Sounds like a typical Commie election.

[SAMWolf]

Evening DD

Cool!

[SAMWolf]

Evening Victoria.

Long may it stay that way. :-)

[SAMWolf]

You sure Joseph Pilsudski didn't have some "American" in him? He talked like one. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

I am packing up my boxes for the troops. I have three of them. I am also, adding an inventory list of contents for each box. They will be sent out Monday.

Bless you, Feather. And yes, Snippy had her Starbucks before we even started this morning. :-)

[SAMWolf]

Evening PE.

Saw a report that the Mars Rovers seem to have gotten some extra energy, Martians "filling her up"?

[SAMWolf]

Neat!Have I ever mentioned the Telegraph sytem we have in the house?

No you haven't, my house has advanced beyond the telegraph, we have a string and two cans, we're thinking of calling it the telephone. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

I remember that title, never read it though.

[SAMWolf]

They were definately in the thick of the action.