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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: I Sing the Body Smoke!
- Message-ID: <9212202354.26@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 04:54:11 GMT
- References: <1h0np7INNrf9@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <9212200245.24@rmkhome.UUCP> <1h2bdqINNk2h@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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- In article <1h2bdqINNk2h@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >In article <9212200245.24@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >>I think it's time to bring back spark gap transmitters. Due to the fact
- >>that my great grandfather was a patent attorney way back when, I have lots
- >>of vintage how to books on spark gap technology.
- >
- >No good... too much bandsplatter and you just can't get a clean note. What
- >you want is a continuous arc transmitter. Dunno who patented it, but Federal
- >Electric made some of the better ones up until about 1915 or so. With a
- >little bit of bandpass filtration it would probably even be legal to use on
- >the air today.
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- As in rotary spark gap transmitters?
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- Guess I'll have to dig out the old books.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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