X-GM-THRID: 1207376736057165112 X-Gmail-Labels: rsgb lf X-Gmail-Received: 94a914d6e73d7cf5cffbcff7b815cb7c79684bcf Delivered-To: daveyxm@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.249.17 with SMTP id w17cs205912qbh; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.242.14 with SMTP id p14mr107203nfh; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from post.thorcom.com (post.thorcom.com [193.82.116.20]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id q27si7623131nfc.2006.06.27.14.36.22; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 193.82.116.20 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org) Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 4.14) id 1FvLAa-0005hs-VM for rs_out_1@blacksheep.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:32:28 +0100 Received: from [193.82.116.32] (helo=relay1.thorcom.net) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1FvLAa-0005hj-KV for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:32:28 +0100 Received: from fish4.hurontel.on.ca ([216.46.140.6]) by relay1.thorcom.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1FvLAW-0003QS-Ta for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:32:28 +0100 Received: from server (unknown [10.105.128.27]) by fish4.hurontel.on.ca (Spam Firewall) with SMTP id 6CB51EBA1A for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:32:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <004b01c69a27$d5742ac0$0b01a8c0@server> From: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" To: Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:25:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at hurontel.on.ca X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) X-Spam-Report: autolearn=disabled,AWL=-0.812 Subject: LF: Spark Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on post.thorcom.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes Sender: owner-rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: rs_out_1@blacksheep.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6329 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