[K6NCG] Mousetrap

[Terry]

Another memory -

During my days in the 'ham' barracks, I built a number of pieces of ham 
gear, including the phasing exciter from the handbook. I had to buy 
quite a few of the parts, but many came from the free stock in the 
shack. Anyway, I also built a small super-regenerative receiver for 
listening to aircraft. It so happened that it covered some of the TV 
frequencies as well, including the ones often watched in the TV room 
upstairs. So I'd drop in to watch TV with the receiver hidden under a 
towel, and after a few minutes, I'd tune it so that the picture went 
haywire. Someone would go up and play with the fine tuning, to no avail, 
and then I'd go up and slap the side of the set. Magically, the picture 
would clear right up. Pretty soon, the other guys would follow that 
procedure when the mysterious interference occurred. Sometimes it would 
work for them, and... sometimes it wouldn't!

I also seem to remember us using some sort of RF oscillator to mess with 
the personal radios of the non-hams we shared the barracks space with.

Terry K8TP

On 6/5/2013 6:01 AM, Bill Crowley wrote:
> Hey guys!
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> It's great to see some activity again on the K6NCG reflector.  Let's keep it rolling: Here's my contribution:
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> When I was part of K6NCG (1964-65), we had our own barracks section, up on the second floor of one of the buildings.  Because there were not very many of us, we had lots of empty racks, and we tended to use the empty ones as places to lay our clothes at night.  Someone (we assumed from some other part of the base) discovered this, and started coming in during the night and stealing the loose change from pants pockets.  I don't remember who, but one of the gang dug out a humongous capacitor (I'd guess the same one used in Mike Mitchell's mouse trap), wired a couple of quarters separated by a piece of carboard to a pair of leads, hooked them to the cap, and put the quarters into a pair of jeans.  One night we heard a loud electrical snap, followed by a screech, and someone making a rapid exit.  We never had the burglary problem again!
>   
> BTW, after I retired, the XYL and I took a cross-country trip in the motorhome in 2009, including a visit with Pete, WA6UDU, and his lovely bride Connie, KA6FTE, at TI.  I also got together with Pete at Dayton in 2011.
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> 73,
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> Bill, K1NIT
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