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Posted: 28 May 2016 12:10 PM PDT
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Episode 95 - H.P. "Pete" Friedrichs - AC7ZL From his first long nose
pliers, at the age of six, to his private use of the chemistry lab at his
junior high-school, Pete Friedrichs, AC7ZL, has had a fascination with
technology, chemistry, and radio. Often this is old but amazing technology
that he recreates with the remnants of discarded objects. Pete is a
renaissance man whose study and fabrication of "simple" technology rivals
that of some of America's great inventors. He is a published author of
books based on his experiments, as well as fiction and ghost stories. AC7ZL
is Eric's guest on QSO Today. Show
Notes Listen to Podcast
AC7ZL Links:HP Friedrichs Home
PageYouTube ChannelCold War QRP: A Case of Discone FeverArtisan Ideas -
RadioPetes First Book: The Voice of the Crystal, by H.P. FriedrichsPetes
second book: Instruments of Amplification, By H.P. FriedrichsMarvelous
Magnetic Machines, You-Tube VideoPetes authors fiction: Rileys Way, by H.P.
FriedrichsNumbers, Neighbors, and Nobody's Business, by H.P. Friedrichs
Scott Adams - Dilbert - The Knack

First License: 2003, Zero to Extra in one afternoon

Amateur radio operators the first hackers and social networks

First Rig: Yaesu FT-817

Current Rigs: Icom IC-178 HF TransceiverKenwood TS-520 HF
TransceiverElecraft K1 - HF Transceiver Kit, 2 BandARC 5 - military surplus
receivers and transmitters, WW2 vintageBC348 US Government receiver for the
Air Force. First produced in 1936.
Favorite modes: CW and digital modes

Boys 2nd Book of Radio and Electronics, By Alfred P. Morgan

ARRL 2016 Handbook for Radio Communications

Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

Cuprous oxide diodes on the top of a copper pipe cap

"Crystal radio is like a sail boat - it takes you where you want to go
without power"

"One energy source controlling another"

Brown amplifying relay - uses a resistive element not a switching element

Wagon Wheel - how to build one

Homemade vacuum tubes

How to make laboratory glassware

Ignition coil out of 72 Ford Pinto

Lincoln Laboratory at MIT

Welch Pump

Ugly construction electronic

Circuit board router mill

Practical Wireless Telegraphy, by Elmer Bucher

Popular Electronics Magazine, archives

HF disk cone antenna

Titan Missile Museum, Tucson, Arizona

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Yaesu FT-817 QRP HF/VHF/UHF Transceiver US Army BC-348
Receiver
Vintage WW2
AC7AL Bell Jar Audion H.P. Friedrich's Brown Amplifying
Relay