The first wireless (and wired, for this matter) tele-communications required skills to transmit and receive, mainly using dits and dahs! Then came Amplitude Modulation allowing phone communication. If you were able to talk or listen, you could operate a radio … or a phone. Car radios became popular with many portable units you could use at the beach. This evening was for devices that only handle AM (and by default CW): receivers, transmitters and transceivers … and the best stories! As usual, votes for the best display, and judge for the best story.
Another great night was had by all. The number of items was down a little but not the quality! Carmel took out a clean sweep with both the item [an unusual AM Highgain CB base station] and her story telling of how she dealt with RF trouble makers [including a reproduction of her original jammer].
Russel came in a close second with a Weston Boat [anchor] transceiver.
It was a little sad that Rod’s National Conelrad radio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONELRAD), Pye Morrocon hide tranny and Breville Gem pixie radio didn’t do a little better. With such stiff competition from items such as Horst’s boy hood radio [complete with a picture of him holding it as a young shaver], Mr Macks Ferris removable car beach radio, the Hurricane’s home brewed AM transmitter, Yves’ battery powered Pye Ranchero and Carmel’s amazing CB radios, such is life.
And that was just part of the fun!
Of course the club was the big winner with the usual amount of shrapnel being laid on the tables during the voting process. A big thank you to all who attended and brought items to show.
“…when I was a kid I made up an AM transmitter to piss off a local who kept hogging the CB call channel. It was a dead bug style, thrown into a bag with a 9v battery and short antenna, with a xtal on CH 11, the CB call channel. I snuck round his place one night and lobbed it up a tree. The next day he turned on his radio but got nothing but a strong carrier pegging his needle. I could hear him complaining to others on another channel how there is ‘someone parked nearby dropping a strong carrier blocking me. The battery lasted about three weeks. Better than a pin in the coax!”
Remember what Descartes said: “I think, therefore I AM”.
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