CONFESSION TIME I LOVE IT John...When I was 16 I was a Ham Radio Instructor at a Boys Camp in Maine. The owner wanted to make a Radio Station and I used the same Lafayette transmitter as you did except I had it on a 175 foot longwire. It covered the whole camp no problem...Had two turntables a Mike and a sorta mixer. Everyday from 11AM till 2 PM WZAK was on the air. We had a visit from a CE from a local Radio station that we were making it 10 miles away and he came to the camp to find out who did this. Man I thought he was going to turn me in to the FCC but he just warned me to take the big antenna off and keep it in the camp. WZAK was on the air for 5 years that I know of. I thought for sure I would loose my Ham Ticket...
Bob W1PE By the way That CE gave us an old Western Electric Console to use!!!! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Lyles Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:32 PM To: amradio@mailman.qth.net Subject: [AMRadio] wireless Confession time? I had a Laf-a-Lot (Lafayette) 2 tube wireless broadcaster, hot chassis and all, which I connected to a wire and made it out to one block away. I had a junky turntable, a really old Mike, and a couple of toggle switches as my mixer. Only had a few 45 rpm records back then, so my programming was rather limited. Everything was fine until I connected the input jack of the transmitter to the speaker jack of my Knight Kit Star Roamer, trying to rebroadcast shortwave over medium wave. The sparks flew as i grounded the chassis of the transmitter, not having correctly polarized outlets in my parents 100 year old house. Next I tried ham radio, that seemed to be the ticket.... 73 John K5PRO > > Coverage, coverage, coverage! What memories you had me remember. > > Anyone else do the "Cutting Edge" in the AM bands? > > > > 73 Robert W4RL ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Partner Website: http://www.amfone.net Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:AMRadio@mailman.qth.net To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
