Cool. I'll be waiting to see some videos of what ya do with it@Gadsden, found some on fleabay
Heathkit made the best. I built one of their communication laser kits in high school. It was a 1mW Helium Neon modulatable job that you could beam whatever audio you wanted to the receiver. Pretty cool for a 15 year old to play with, in the 80s.Anyone remember building the transistor radio kit from radio shack or Tandy?
That’s exactly what I did.Yep, I used to put one under my pillow so I could listen to the radio without my parents knowing.
I remember living in Moore in the '80's. We got KOMA radio over the phone line, when you picked up the receiver. Wasn't real loud.
I used to know a guy who grew up in Moore who said their fridge picked up KOMA. He said you could hear it loud and clear when you opened the door.I remember living in Moore in the '80's. We got KOMA radio over the phone line, when you picked up the receiver. Wasn't real loud.
I listened to KOMA in my teens and into my college years, and I remember hearing people call in from Canada and Mexico, talking about listening to them.Pretty interesting. I can remember hearing it loud and clear in the 70's day or night in Bartlesville.
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Radio signals are very odd. Especially AM the way it can bounce off the ionosphere. I grew up in Denver, and KOA was a clear channel station that ruled the night there (and elsewhere).
Incidentally, I used to run an FM station in Tulsa, which at the time was a small 3K watts, but it was the only tower in Tulsa proper. We received a postcard from a DX'er (a long distance-listener that scans the dial looking for the furthest signal they can pull in) in Maine once who identified what we were playing one night about 11:45pm until we signed-off at midnight. We couldn't cover all of the Metro, be we managed to get to Maine that night. FM is usually a line-of-sight type of signal, but something must have been just right that night. When I wrote him back verifying that the info was correct (they always want a response sent back on letterhead), I neglected to ask what his receiving gear was. Probably wasn't the little transistor radio that I used to sneak into Elementary school to listen to the World Series.
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