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Title: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on September 25, 2022, 1934 UTC
From the December 1, 1929 Baltimore Sun

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Title: Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
Post by: ChrisSmolinski 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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Title: Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
Post by: skeezix 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.

Title: Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
Post by: Pigmeat on September 26, 2022, 2307 UTC
They'll have to pry my Philco from my cold dead hands.
Title: Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
Post by: Zoidberg 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.
Title: Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
Post by: Pigmeat 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.
Title: Re: Radio Sets Go Up In Flames As Celebration
Post by: Molvania Poacher 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 (https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/fire-is-not-good-for-wood)