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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:08:13 +0000
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John, my overactive imagination has tram coductors using the lanyard to
key transmissions back to base (and each other) by bouncing the trolley
wheel power pick-up off the overhead :)


On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 17:00 +0100, John Rabson wrote:
> On 20 Dec 2011, at 14:21CET, g4gvw wrote:
>=20
> =E2=80=A6
>=20
> > These techniques, I recall, could involve using [=E2=80=A6 ] DC power=
 supplies obtained
> > from his local town's street-lighting system.=20
>=20
> At one of the Belgian amateur radio conventions at Knokke (sometime in =
the 1960s) I met ST2AR (I think that was his call sign).   He told me tha=
t before the war he managed the tramway system for Cairo and used its ove=
rhead supply to power his transmitter. It was alleged that when he put th=
e key down the trams all slowed down.
>=20
> John F5VLF/G3PAI/ex ON5YB/ex ON8IU

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73 es gd dx de pat g4gvw
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(east coast, county of suffolk)