If I have to do it from scratch, including building batteries, it might take a day, not counting cigarette and coffee breaks and lunch.
Got Morse?
/johnny
You rock!
Are you a DXer?
I think you would be handy to have as a neighbor. ;>)
Got Morse?
Yep and better.
Could you hook up a 110 baud teletype to it?
Extra class license......Radio operater in the Coast Guard....let’s roll.....(as in mobile).
If the goobermint blocks communications I will be tappin code on the 7.62mm band..... Somebody will hear me.
Good point on sparkgap. I carry a germanium 134 an use the old crystal ear bud as I like to teach folks how to make foxhole radios from junk . Crude resistors from 2 paper clips and lead pencil scribble on a scrap piece of paper ...slide em close or far to get what ya need etc.
I try to know a little bit about everything and a lot aboutnothin except that what pays my way through life. Uncle Sugar gave us skills we never forget. Socialists are advised.... We will use em to save this republic.
Stay Safe ...
US Army Signal Corps (radio/crypto tech) veteran and Eagle Scout here. Morse and Semaphore.
Wolverines!
With all due respect to ham radio operators, your ability is almost worthless in the context of modern communication.
I can pick up a telephone and call someone or drive and tell them, but its not the same as FreeRepublic, emails, social networking, the radio/TV station, or texting.
The idea of controlling communication is not to control everything, just the rapid/mass forms that everyone uses and relies on.
Yep -- and the old Radio School Morse cheer:
Radio!
Radio!
Rah! Rah! RAH!Di di dit!
Di di di dit!
Di dit!
DAH!!
Today, I'd use a germanium diode, a tunable ferrite-core coil and add a variable capacitor for selectivity. And I might figure out a better antenna than the bedsprings I used as a kid... '-)