Dear all, as most electric power nets at that time were direct current, tapping the tram wires carrying 500 V DC had been a possibility to get higher plate voltages for tube transmitters than the loc
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 :) -- 73 es gd dx
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 that before the war he managed the tramway system for Cairo
