[Qcwa] Joining QCWA

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Thu, 09 May 2002 17:40:29 -0400


On Thursday 09 May 2002 17:03, Joseph Fenn wrote:
> Wow I see the text is flowing again in the old reflector!
> Nice to see all the activity even if it took an ignoramus
> to get it started.     Hows this for a change of pace.
> What receiver involved an oatmeal box??

Crystal Detector receiver. Built one as a kid.

> What transceiver worked equally well as an xmtr and/or rcvr
> but had only 1 tube and used an old telephone button to
> modulate it?

I don't remember where it was described, but it was a regen 
receiver/transmitter and I think it was on the old 5 meter band.

> What was known as loop modulation in the good ole 160 meter days!


Couple carbon mike to output tank..good for RF burns on the lips.

>                         Joe (aka kilroy)

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