The April QST article I liked appeared in about 1973. It was an article on a
zero-bandwidth audio filter. The schematic showed a "filter" connected
between the hot side of a phone jack to ground, and the bill of materials
listed the filter as a precise length of "common copper conductor". I had a
Princeton PhD in physics ask me where he could purchase some common copper
conductor. He took it fairly well when I pointed out that the article was
from an April issue.


"Jim - NN7K" wrote in message
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Dr Shorza Gitchigoomie also wrote about Useing "Negative Resistance" to do
the Contra Polar Energy thing. Funny, I could never get these to work the
way he described them (think was about 14
at the time)! That was CQ's premier "Engineer"!
Jim NN7K

Bill Turner wrote:

There was an article in QST about underground antennas. It might have
been an April fool's article but it was so long ago I don't remember
for sure. I was 14 or 15 and anything seemed possible. :-)
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