In fourth grade (1952) a camp counselor had built a voice radio transmitter
that put out a signal on the broadcast band that we could hear all over the
campground. Was it illegal? HELL yes, it put out almost a watt into a
random wire antenna. Could it be heard a couple of miles away? HELL no. It
was a watt into a junk antenna.

That illegal transmitter put this kid into a 50 year career as an
electronics engineer with a lot of stops along the way.

My advice ... build a VOICE transmitter that has a couple of miles range and
let the kids have fun with it.

Licenses, we don't need no steenking licenses...

Jim


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All,

I have a situation, and would like some opinions rather than flames on
how to handle it. My wife teaches at a public school just off the
Easter Arizona Navajo reservation. Lately, a junior school science
teacher is starting up a science club and has asked me to provide for
the amateur radio side of the club and be its control operator.

RST Engineering wrote:
That illegal transmitter put this kid into a 50 year career as an
electronics engineer with a lot of stops along the way.

My advice ... build a VOICE transmitter that has a couple of miles range and
let the kids have fun with it.

Licenses, we don't need no steenking licenses...

Jim



Andy writes:

And remember, it is much easier to ask for forgiveness than
for permission....

Do what you gotta do, but don't advertise. There is always someone
around who will try to make a big thing about it. And for goodness
sakes, don't tell anyone involved that what they are doing is illegal.
(Also, I would advise against posting this on newsgroups :))) )

Andy

AndyS wrote:

...
And remember, it is much easier to ask for forgiveness than
for permission....

Do what you gotta do, but don't advertise. There is always someone
around who will try to make a big thing about it. And for goodness
sakes, don't tell anyone involved that what they are doing is illegal.
(Also, I would advise against posting this on newsgroups :))) )

Andy


AndyS:

To sum that up? "If all else fails play dumb?"

Hey, it has worked for me in the past! chuckle

Regards,
JS

RST Engineering wrote:


That illegal transmitter put this kid into a 50 year career as an
electronics engineer with a lot of stops along the way.

My advice ... build a VOICE transmitter that has a couple of miles range and
let the kids have fun with it.

Licenses, we don't need no steenking licenses...

Jim


And they say the American spirit is dead? They say the men have all
been "feminized" in America? They say the pointy-head attorneys have
brain washed everyone with threats of litigation? They say the
multi-dollar corporations now run the people like a heard of sheep under
thought control?

Hmmm, I wonder ... grin

Warmest regards,
JS