To: factoryrat
7.1 MHz is a good place to play. Math is easy, antennas are easy, coils are quick to wind, and receivers are actually easier than some other frequencies.
I'm not talking xtal controlled tube transmitters. Spark gap transmitters and cat's whisker receivers.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
7145 used to be the hang out spot for all the pirate shortwavers.
22 posted on
07/07/2012 9:47:23 PM PDT by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: JRandomFreeper
“Spark gap transmitters”
Did you ever see a real spark gap transmitter?
I did.
Knew a Ham who actually operated one before they were outlawed.
48 posted on
07/07/2012 10:14:42 PM PDT by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: JRandomFreeper
Dang son. Cat whisker receivers, I used to build them and sell them in the 5th grade back when God was a baby.
183 posted on
07/08/2012 8:17:34 AM PDT by
nanook
(Thomas Jefferson had it right.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Old school, very nice. I have some of those parts laying around wating to be put to good use. Brush up on your CW mode, and hope to hear you on the air. Just because it’s old, doesn’t mean it’s obsolete!
262 posted on
07/11/2012 9:37:46 PM PDT by
factoryrat
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