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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
« on: September 25, 2022, 1934 UTC »
From the December 1, 1929 Baltimore Sun

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Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2022, 1942 UTC »
This article says it was an attempt to get rid of older regenerative receivers. In addition to getting used receivers off the market as the first article mentioned.

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Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2022, 0012 UTC »
Huh...

I have an ol' curtain burner. If not maintained & is not paid attention to while using it, it'll start itself on fire.

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Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2022, 2307 UTC »
They'll have to pry my Philco from my cold dead hands.
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Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2022, 0307 UTC »
"They can have my spark-gap transmitter when they pry it from the cold, dead depths of the ocean floor."
--Titanic radioman Jack Phillips, probably.

"Okay, changed my mind, a bonfire sounds pretty good right about now."
--Titanic radioman Jack Phillips, definitely.
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Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2022, 1446 UTC »
Good ol' Wayne Green of "73 Magazine" once had a schematic of a spark gap transmitter in his mag with the proviso it wasn't for on air use. Wayne printed a lot of things like that. I think he was a troublemaker like his Canadian cousin, Red.
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Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2022, 0217 UTC »
It's all fun and games until a transmitter fire gets in the way of WOOD.

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/fire-is-not-good-for-wood
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