[ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] Command key ?

[Bob Macklin]

We were shown how to wrap a shorted turn around the end of the cigarette,
draw an arc then puff like hell. And we would catch hell if we broke tha
magnatron.

But you could only pull this stunt in the classroom. There was no smoking on
the flightline and we used dummy loads in the shop.

I remember one evening at Langly where we drove the maintenance guy changing
floresents in the hanger nuts. He freaked when the tubes he was carring lit
up.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ/7
Seattle, Wa.

"REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hanz" <AAF-Radio-1 at cox.net>
To: "ARC-5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>;
<Military1944 at aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] Command key ?


> Heh, heh...ya know, the question about provoking an arc with a pencil is
> something I bet every ham has tried at least once in his life.  It is
> reminiscent of touching a hot stove after your mom said not to do it.
> :-)   Did you tune on the basis of the length of the arc?
>
> Bob Macklin wrote:
>
> >When I was i radar school in 1952 we were taught how to light a cigarette
> >off the radar antenna. Three years later we were taught why you should
not
> >track the gas truck with the FC radar in high power mode.
> >
> >>Trivia question.  How many out there used to use a wooden pencil to pull
an arc on the ART-13 when tuning the antenna?  I always did until one day I
tried to use a mechanical pencil...boy did that hurt
> >>
>
>