Re: Off the roof

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 7/1/01 2:40:31 PM Central Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< Maybe this shooting sparks off an antenna in the roof thing is not a good
 idea...
  Cheers,
 Terry >>

I dunno, Terry. 
Back in grade school a few of us budding hams living within a few city blocks 
of eachother
decided to practice the code by keying a door buzzer. We wrapped a few turns 
of wire     around a  buzzer coil and with one end of this secondary tied to 
an opened coat hanger stuck out the window and the other end grounded we were 
loud and clear all over the low end of the broadcast band. This was during 
THE war and it was great fun until one kid spotted a black van with a loop 
antenna cruising the neighborhood. 
Spark gap transmitters are a strct no-no. Loading one into a roof antenna 
sounds like
pretty good evidence of intent.

Cheers,
Ralph Zekelman