Hi Byron, A "touch lamp" is a lamp that is turned ON and OFF by touching ... usually a table lamp of some sort ... with the base / stand responding to the capacity of one's hand for the switching action. Basically the lamp has a free-running oscillator that is "detuned" when the lamp is touched, causing the switching action. I'm aware of some that operate in the 80M range.
Once took a crew on a 400+ mile round-trip ... Montana's a big state ... to respond to a ham's line noise complaint. After much searching, involving switching off the power to an entire block, and then to individual houses, found two touch-lamps in the bedroom of his parent's house next door. (;-) Some light dimmers are noise generators, also. 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP elecraftcov...@rfwave.net http://tinyurl.com/7lm3m5 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html