Great Story, Gotta add mine. in the 1963 I was in Junior High & smitten by a Popular communications "DIY" Article "Build a Home Brew 160 Meters Xmtr" and Built it, Had to also build a RF Signal Generator (Dad Bought me EICO Kit) (It was AM transformer) And finally got a Xtal from Oklahoma City, plopped my Radio on 1590 KCs, 10 Watts AM, I also had the Knight Kit Phono Oscillator, I could Turn Off Neighbours AM Radios listening to KAAY 1090 in Little Rock from a 1/2 Mile across the Cotton Fields around my house, then when they knew it was "Bernay" the 4 foot Handgrenade, They didn't Stomp me...I was the Hot Licks Guitar Kid in Saline County, Arkansas!
The off side was, whenever the local Sheriff or City Police had any Problem with their (35 MHz) Radios, I Was First Person Called, in case I was doing Mad Science on River Street! I was 14 Years Old. Had all kinds of Wires in the Elm Trees and Tall Oak Trees around the Home.
I Had read about a Pirate Radio Man who could not get Local Radio Stations to give him Air Time, in Pop'comm. He built his own Radio Station, got busted. He had written a book "Mytheology" I think he was in Ohio.
I became a Hater of Television when JFK was shot, I was watching on TV, and started building Knight Kit SW Radios, and became certain that "Television Was Why Johnny K Was Killed" I figured Nixon Lost because JFK looked Better on TV" therefore: Television was 666 Image of Beast!
Sounds Crazy for a 14-15 Year Old Kid.....well, it was. I am 66 Years old NOW & I know I Was Correct, in a Twisted Way, after my Family took me to Uncle Edward L. Bernays Furneal (He died at 103 Years) I study a little about Freud & My Uncle, & My Grandmother Was a Administrator of Recrational Therapy at VA Hospitals & State Mental Hospitals, so I grew up a Book Worm & Offish Kid, only 1/2 Jewish (Wrong Half) I had no Connection, no Bar Mitzvah , raised Epicopal, I Felt More Akin to the Voices on Short Waves, fom Far Wawy Places.....HCJB Quito Equidor, I Write Them for QSL.....put KITO, EQUIDOR on Enveloupe...LOL. I got QSL back anyway! I love radio, short wave radio. I have a 10 Meter Station (HTX100, Astron Power Supply, MFJ 931 Grounder, 1/4 Diaploe, but my Senior Apartemet is Inside Window into Well, All Building is Full of RF and Alumin Sidinf, I cannot even get 11 Meter RECEPTION, or AM BC Rception in my Aparment.
Why am I wriying all this? What is this FOERUM?
Of, LuLu Style 10 W Carrier AM Xmtr! Yeah...
I guess I am Oft Off Topic....(A PUN there!) My Old Brain is Lame....) Maybe Insane, Poets Often Speak in Thyime
Drunk of Wine, when Clocks Have No Time, DX is FINE! 73 de W5AWG
I've been building my own transmitters since 1980.
1980's era radio scanner to operate as a wideband transmitter.
everything that receives, transmits, albeit extremely low emissions without modifications though.
the best was when I was 13 on a school bus trip and the kid in the seat to my left was listening to the FM radio on his walkman, I took out my "modified" walkman and tuned around slowly until I heard his cut off (he had it loud on his headphones), I need not tell you that when I told him I was doing it, he got extremely mad, yelling like a child and tried valiantly to get the bus attendant to stop me but hey, I just have a walkman and I'm listening to the radio