"Stan Barr" wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 May 2004 05:55:51 GMT, JOE wrote:
That is SO cool! I'm sure it's worth the starting price, but too rich
for
me. Amazing that they had SPARK in airplanes - what would have
been the receiver? Surely a coherer detector... but maybe not???

There may not have been a receiver, a lot of early aircraft wireless was
one-way, for reporting fall-of-shot for artillery etc.



BC14 crystal receiver.

Peter

BC14 crystal receiver.


Yes but not in the plane. These were used for spotting
and were only one way transmissions.

I had a BC-14A made by Deforest that I sold to a collector
that lives in Italy. Too bad for me, it's wroth about 3 or 4 times
what I sold it for then.

Ron