On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:00:47 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Al Klein wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:49:48 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Can you say "Yes, I ar wun"?

Can't you spell any better than that?

A spelling flame! I'm vanquished!

Not really, I just hate needless abbreviations, and even more so as
my vision gets worse.

It wasn't an abbreviation, it was a comment. From an old poster we
had in high school - "Six munce ago I cun't evun spel injunere, now I
ar wun."

I had planned to go to college and get my degree, but my time in
the Army threw those plans out the window.

Then I'm glad I chose the Navy.

You're playing "mine is bigger than yours.")

One told me he would use parts from his TV set, that the
horizontal output tube and a few other parts would put him on the air.

There have been many people on the air thanks to a 6BG6 or similar.

He didn't even know that his six month old TV only had one tube, and
I've never seen a transmitter built from a CRT and salvaged, unmarked
SMD parts.

Interesting idea, though - a CRT as a final with an inherent monitor.
I wonder how much RF output you can drive a CRT to. And, if you made
it AM, would that be "focused" modulation? Or, if you were listening
to the flyback, "high sing modulation"?

I never built anything like that, but I did repair some electronics
for the manager of the planetarium at the Orlando Science Center years
ago.

I'll take a stab - a Minolta projector? I doubt it's a Zeiss.

What about the people locked out by CW requirements who wanted to
design and test RF equipment?

That was the whole idea behind the Tech ticket - minimal CW that
anyone could get to in a few weeks and enough written exam to prove
that you knew electronics. Anyone who can design or test RF equipment
should be able to draw a few schematics.