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
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_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" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
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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