[Fists] A pardner at the Circle-A Ranch...

Sat, 13 Dec 2003 02:06:19 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of Cheryl W. Ring
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 7:54 PM
> To: Fred Adsit; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Fists] Circle-A in Morse Code
> Importance: High
> So we can say to ARRL:  DAH-DAAAAAAAAH-DI-DI-DAAAAAAAAH-DAAAAAAAAAAAH
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>
> We used to stretch out the dashes!  It was used in the old days of crystal
> detectors so that the other operators would have their ears hurt when we
> turned on the high power spark transmitter.
>
> 73
>
> David Ring
> N1EA

David - I'm very interested in the history or radio. So your statement
really piqued my interest: At what job did you operate a high power spark
transmitter which was received by crystal sets?

73,

Mark W1EOF