[Boatanchors] WTB: Knightkit T-60 Transmitter

Robert Nickels ranickel at comcast.net
Sun Jun 21 15:08:21 EDT 2020


On 6/21/2020 1:49 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> Lots of hams got into trouble with the T60.

My high school science club advisor precluded that.   The "ham radio 
group" (me and two buddies) weren't licensed yet but we'd fire the T-60 
up into a light bulb dummy load and listen to ourselves on the Lafayette 
HE-30 receiver.   Until the physics teacher became aware that light 
bulbs can radiate a signal for some distance, and we lived about an hour 
away from the Grand Island Nebraska monitoring station.

End of experiments.  I put my T-60 on the air for one of the AM nets now 
and then and it does OK.    Cute rig,  and nowadays many of us use a 
tuner of some sort that would add sufficient filtering (if anyone was 
listening).

73, Bob W9RAN



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