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From: k2ors@comcast.net (Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ)
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org, <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Cc: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle@hurontel.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:34:39 +0000
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Subject: Re: LF: Spark
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J.B.,

  Great story!
I often wonder which contact was more fun, the one with the Ford coil and oatmeal box or the one with the latest $4000. ricebox with DSP?


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73 Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ
FN42hi
http://www.w4dex.com/wd2xgj.htm

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <weazle@hurontel.on.ca>
> Hello LFers,
> 
> OK, if we're all going to confess, I'll throw in my bit as well.
> As a kid I had (and still have!) a "Ford Coil"  and I made a
> transmitter.  I successfully spanned the 18 miles between
> our cottage at Kintail and a friend's home in Goderich with
> it, using about a mile of abandoned rural telephone line as
> the antenna.  The "tuning coil" was wound on an oatmeal
> container and used a sliding wiper...crude but it worked.
> 
> 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL
> Solar and wind powered
> EN93dr
> 
> 
>