J.B.,
Great story!
I often wonder which contact was more fun, the one with the Ford coil and
oatmeal box or the one with the latest $4000. ricebox with DSP?
--
73 Warren K2ORS/WD2XGJ
FN42hi
http://www.w4dex.com/wd2xgj.htm
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "J. B. Weazle McCreath" <[email protected]>
> 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
>
>
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