[Boatanchors] Coke as a detector - was: Foxhole Radios

Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:25:13 -0500

W8DAS DE WA3IVX
Steve, that is a very important part of the receiver, don't ya know!! 
Those people bent over their mirrors are trying to get VHF and UHF 
(Maybe even the cm freqs as well ;-). The mirror thickness acts as a 
very effective tuning capacitor for them to get "tuned up"  at those 
high freqs. When one combines that capacitance with the natural tuned 
cavity of their sinuses, the whole front end works fine, if a little 
fast in the tuning. The detector, however, shuts down, or operates 
extremely erratically,  and so far, for some reason, these experimenters 
don't seem to care.  --hi--

I'm sorry, I simply couldn't resist that one--
73 de Greg Moore WA3IVX

[email protected] wrote:

>When I mentioned the recent messages regarding unusual detectors on the list, 
>a friend of mine pointed out...
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>"Ok, so a blue razor blade works well and now coke, just what I need. 
>A razor blade and some coke."
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>I bet all those people bent over their mirrors have no idea!
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>Steve  WD8DAS
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