Good Day All,
Well, I've read a LOT of tales of tragic near-misses here that truly would
fall under the category of "...accident". But how about a near-fatal,
near-miss occurance that surely deserves to be preceded by the header of
"STOPID"...?!
It was 1976, & the budding, relatively newbie H
My shocking story dates back to November, 1960, the night of the
Kennedy-Nixon election.
I had stayed up to the wee hours listening to election returns on the radio.
In the meantime I decided to work on my transmitter, a homebrew pair of
807's, which I was attempting to modulate with a hi-fi am
tertainment value.
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From: John Lawson
To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service
Sent: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:53 pm
Subject: [AMRadio] Shocking Stories (was: amazed...)
I lived in a coastal cany
I lived in a coastal canyon for many years. Right after I got my ticket,
I amassed the typical 'impossible dream of electronic childhood' - a nice
Collins S-Line set-up.
Before I had any antenna smarts, I stretched an enormous long-wire down
to one end of my property, very nearly 500 fee
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