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From: "captbrian" <captbrian@ukonline.co.uk>
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:05:06 +0100
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Ok. With no authority whatsoever I now declare a Spark Transmitting Amnesty.

Quite a few have followed my confessing  to working spark as a teenager
...
_let's hear from the rest._

 I think the kind of mind that did it is the kind of mind that  enjoys this
list.  50 years later

Bryan G3GVB


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----- Original Message -----
From: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle@hurontel.on.ca>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: 28 June 2006 02:10
Subject: Re:LF:Spark


> Hi Warren, LFers,
>
> I had to think about your comments for a few minutes, but I would have
> to say it's the rigs I've built by hand that have given me the biggest and
> best thrills.  My very first homebrew receiver, which I still have, was a
> simple 1N34 detector followed by a 2N107 audio stage into a pair of
> "head crusher" 2000 ohm 'phones.  I still recall 50 years later the thrill
> of hearing WLS in Chicago as the first signal it picked up.  I built all
of
> it save for cutting the wood for the "chassis" and front panel, as my dad
> thought a seven-year-old and a table saw wasn't a good combination!
>
> 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL
> Solar and wind powered
> EN93dr
>
>
>
>
>
>
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