"Michael Coslo" wrote ...
Bill, I don't know if you remember the program on Discovery channel where
teams of people were let loose in a junkyard with a task of building some
sort of contraption from materials they had to scrounge
within the yard.

"Junkyard Wars" (US) / "Scrapheap Challenge" (UK)
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0169491/
One of my favorite shows. It it were still on, I would keep my
TVRO subscription, otherwise, 120 channels and literally
nothing worth watching. :-(


Imagine the fun of setting groups of hams down with instructions that they
would have to put together a power source and power their radios from non
standard materials. First group on the air wins - or some other criteria
of course - Power, reliability, etc.

I like it. Could be combined/cooridnated with Field Day events(?)