... some years ago there was a beautiful story in the CQ of two young ham
radio operators who find some old radio gear in the attic, that once was the
shack of the father of one of the two boys. They manage to switch on the
gear, tune a surprisingly quiet 40 m band and have a few very nice QSOs, all
with W1, W3, W7 stations with two letter suffixes. When they start to look
up the adresses of their QSO partners in the callbook to exchange QSLs, they
realize that none of the callsigns exists ... they are all sk ... they try
to swich on the gear again to verify their findings but it is silent forever
...
73
Geri, DK8KW (W1KW, one of those callsigns that once belonged to Perce Allen,
a ham who passed away long long time ago ...)
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:51 PM
Subject: LF: LDE ...
In April 2004, I published a well documented article in Radio-REF, the
french amateur magazine, to explain that the amateur satellite AO-40 had
just caught some very long delay echoes coming from radio transmissions
performed around 1910/1920.
I alleged that the radio signals were stored for more than 80 years in
some very highly ionized clouds swanning around in the magnetosphere.
I tweeked some true formulas describing the speed of waves in plasma just
to show why the radio transmissions were trapped such a long time long in
the magnetosphere and I added some original audio records (still
downloadable on http://www.amsat-france.org, "Pages techniques",
"Enregistrements AO-40")like 1890 songs, 1914 political speeches,etc).
Printing nice formulas with plenty square roots, proposing audio files on
the Net and exhibiting a lot of technical and scientific arguments triggered
a tremendous avalanche of mail, e-mails and phone calls at home from people
believing that all this stuff was really true.
Never seen that before.
Enhanced reality is better that reality, as usual ...
73 de Jean-Louis F6AGR
P.S.: The original sounds from 1890 and 1910 voices I used were really
existing, but were copied them from inestimable antique phonograph wax
cylinders
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