I remember that Benjamin Franklin was a short wave listener -- his radio used a rusty key as the detector. His resonant circuit included a Leyden Jar capacitor. He quit this hobby though when, during an electrical storm, his lightning protection failed and destroyed his rig. Embarrassed about making such foolish mistakes, he invented an entirely different story to account for his being out in the storm flying a kite.
73, phil, K7PEH On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:31 PM, K8JHR <[email protected]> wrote: > Short wave listeners use kites and baloons to hold up long wire antennas all > the time. I did this long before becoming a ham. > > ------------------ K8JHR -------------------------- > > On 6/26/2014 7:24 PM, Slava Baytalskiy wrote: >> I wonder if anyone's ever used a kite in a field to keep a wire "up". > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
