Some of the older guys here have told me about using carrier current during
that time.
And some bootleg operation on 5 meters.
Also if I remember correctly in England they had an no antenna class of
license.
There was a specific prefix for them G3 maybe?
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Interesting info on Powerline transmissions by Utility companies,I was CE at
Ole Miss college station WCBH in 60's using carrier currrent and we ran pair
of 814's into coax which fed individual coupling units for each building
feeding the 220 vac entrance line .The buildings leaked
Greetings all: I have spent considerable time operating carrier current of
various kinds over the years. I studied all of the old QST articles about the
subject and duplicated quite a few of the subjects. Most of them were for AM
Phone operation. (there was a lot of incidental FM also and FM
Early wireless intercom units actually used carrier current. If you and
your neighbor had the same intercom equipment, and were on the same service
transformer, things could become interesting, as you had an instant
listening Tom in each other's houses.
The units I played with transmitted
Carrier current radio was the topic of a neat story in the Oct. 2007
issue of Popular Communications magazine called The Carrier Current
Ghost. A BC band dx-er in Rhode Island who recently returned to the
hobby noticed this consistent unmodulated carrier on 580 khz. He was
able to narrow
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