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Re: Is My Revalation Accurate? (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 08:34:59 -0400
From: John Heck <jkh-at-lexis-nexis-dot-com>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Is My Revalation Accurate? (fwd)
Spark gap transmitters continued to be actively used by hams, though
continuously discouraged by the ARRL, until well into the late twenties.
Ships at sea continued to carry spark gap xmtrs until into the thirties as
backup units in case of problems with the tube gear. The last spark gap
transmission, after the mode was oficially outlawed by the FCC, occured
sometime in 1932 or 1933. I don't have the exact date at hand but if it
is really necessary I can scrounge it up.
John
th> Make that about 1926, and spark was dead much earlier than that.
> As for your thoughts, I have often thought it would be interesting if
> someone (else!) would organize "spark transmitter night" on which
> real afficienados would stay up till about three in the morning and
> then fire up their transmitters and have at it. If the event
> didn't last too long (and if the gaps were muffled enough not to
> fill the night with din) it would be all over before anyone not
> "in the know" could figure out what happened. Perhaps once a
> year???
>
> Ed
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