I was interested by the first post "He has a strong interest and aptitude for analog and RF" last night I caught the end of "Mythbusters" on the Discovery channel (I warned I was going off topic) and the geeky chaps were trying to blow up/start a fire at a gas station with a cellphone (again in non US English ..trying to ignite a petrol pump with a mobile phone). Well of course they couldn't do it (pity they didn't try throwing the phone on the ground to get a short cct and a spark though, seems more plausible, or maybe they did?). But they were using Leyden Jars in their tests and so I was perusing the internet looking for one
http://www.arcsandsparks.com/default.html Very interesting website, they even have crystal radios for sale. I pointed this artefact out (which I thought every wiggly signal engineering type had built as a youth) to a young tech in the lab and he said...."what's one of them?" So my question! How does someone get a starting interest in RF these days? It cannot be the mathematics, that near on kills it. Maybe there are teenagers today who can frequency shift a Nokia with a bent spoon and chewing gum..... Jim This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
