We might be cut from the same cloth. A while ago I was bored and built a crystal radio (similar to below). It's kinda the perfect thing for bathroom reading.
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We might be cut from the same cloth. A while ago I was bored and built a crystal radio (similar to below). It's kinda the perfect thing for bathroom reading.
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Josh Simonds
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Dustin Gaddis
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Why do people feel the need to list all of their bikes in their signature?
I had knob and tube in parts of my Cleveland house. fwiw, in spite of looks it is not as dangerous as one thinks, as the wires that could cause a short are not close to each other (as they are in a modern 2-3 conductor wire). Fires weren't caused by mice chewing through a single wire, more likely from bad circuit breakers and boxes (well-documented) or overloaded circuits that someone "upgraded" to a higher amperage without recalling that lower amp circuits are set thus to protect the wires, not to see how much juice can be ran through them
Trod Harland, Pickle Expediter
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin
Getting radio stations through the internet is easy, but some of us (okay, maybe just me) get great pleasure out of pulling in stations by moving a dial. I'm one of them and it's why I still have my MR-78 tuner. Crazy as it sounds, I even enjoy a little static at times. It reminds me of the days when my dad and I listened to the Red Sox games together.
My antenna choice is a simple di-pole type (t-shaped as tee-aitch-pee-eee mentioned). I have experimented with di-pole antennas of my own and my best success was re purposing a hula-hoop and some wire to tune in very specific FM frequencies on the low end of the dial.
Don't worry, I have a back up hula hoop for using it the proper way.
My dad listened to the St. Louis Cardinals on the radio while sitting in the car out in the driveway because the car radio had better reception than the radios in the house. Our neighbors told me years later they thought my parents were having marital issues.
Actually what Todd said...you can Broadcast via the grid. Ask me how I know. For one glorious year I was the afternoon DJ for KMAC, a carrier current station broadcasting via the campus electrical grid. This is where I learned the true value of Whipping Post.
Josh Simonds
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A very cool story about an important astronomical discovery made out in the middle of nowhere, because they wanted to be as far away from radio signals as possible:
Astronomers Glimpse Signposts of Universe's First Stars - Scientific American
Here you go >>> United States National Radio Quiet Zone - Wikipedia
First time I was there and sitting in a cafe sipping coffee. Had to read a newspaper instead of googling "manipedi near me". #brutal
Josh Simonds
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