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Subj: Re: Re: G8PZT > Lying or igrent?
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From: G8PZT@GB7PZT.#24.GBR.EU (Paula)
To: TV@WW
Subject: Re: Re: G8PZT > Lying or igrent?
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Hi Warren et al,
I didn't realise that vibrators didn't care whether it was AC or DC. I was
too young at the time, and I wouldn't have had access to a
transformer anyhow.
Incidentally I still have the old car radio. The vibrator wore out
long ago, and was replaced with a power transistor multivibrator.
Yes I realise that radio piracy is still alive and well, but I think
we were mainly thinking about the medium wave pirate ships.
73, Paula
------- Original Message -------
>From: KB2VXA
>To: TV@WW
>Sent:
>Subject: Re: G8PZT > Lying or igrent?
>From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
>To : TV@WW
>
>Hi Paula and the Pirates,
>
>Neither could I afford a decent radio and didn't have much luck with crystal
>sets having two powerful stations in the area, one 5KW and the other 50KW
so
>they clobbered all else. Some of the kids from the poor side of town were
>using car radios scrounged from the local scrap yard, I tried a few and
the
>1956 Buick Sonomatic worked best, better still when connected to the 50'
wire
>I strung up for the crystal sets. Tube/valve heaters and vibrators can't
tell
>AC from DC so I powered it with the filament winding of a TV power
>transformer, later I eliminated the vibrator since it was AC to begin with.
>Those old radios were sensitive and selective, perfect for DXing around
the
>AM broadcast band since they had to receive distant stations on a whip
>antenna and separate them, today AM is an afterthought and radios suck.
>
>Like I hinted at in another bull, BBC-1 didn't kill the pirates nor did
the
>RA or Ofcom, pirate radio is alive and well underground. Tune around, you
>just might find one.
>
>Ah, those military surplus stores! We had an Army/Navy store nearby back
in
>the day but the REAL honey hole was Cortland Street in lower Manhattan's
>financial district, the general area of the Twin Towers that replaced what
we
>fondly remember as Radio Row. We bowed to Empire being the landmark of
our
>Mecca that could be seen for miles, drool, pant pant, drool.
>
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>73 de Warren
>
>Station powered by JCP&L atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
>
>Message timed by NIST: 09:38 on 2013-Jul-26 GMT
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