Radio won't stop playing Christmas music

[Meat Plow]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:20:21 +0000, vjp2.at wrote:

Some have argued the Biblical Ark of Covenant was in fact designed to
receieve radio signals.

Yeah the first Extra Terrestrial Boom Box.





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[Jack Myers]

Mark Zenier <mzenier@eskimo.com> wrote:

In article <if7g3s$dkd$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:
By "mechanism", I meant what was going on electrically. How was the signal
picked up, demodulated, and fed to the speaker at sufficient level to be
audible?

One example, back about 20 years ago, a friend on the Olympic Peninsula
had an old Knight Kit tube stereo amp. It was able to pick up ...
KGEI near San Francisco ... a really strong signal in the 6 Mhz band.

Interesting, that. I also had a Knight Kit FM receiver of that vintage.
El Centro, California was a deep fringe area at that time and radio
frequency interference from KGEI was a real nuisance. The detector used
some crazy feedback circuit to make a narrow-band IF strip track the
wide-band broadcast signal. (Oh, if I had known then what I know now.)
I always figured the signal on the 25 meter was getting into the IF
but maybe the tall antenna and feedline were resonating at 6 MHz.

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Jack Myers / Westminster, California, USA
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[Jeff Liebermann]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:38:25 +0000 (UTC), Meat Plow
<mhywatt@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:20:21 +0000, vjp2.at wrote:

Some have argued the Biblical Ark of Covenant was in fact designed to
receieve radio signals.

Yeah the first Extra Terrestrial Boom Box.

Electrostatic loudspeaker perhaps? It's the wrong shape and size, but
it might be possible with sufficiently thin gold leaf. The problem is
that it would be really fragile, and not suitable for dragging across
the desert.

The traditional inscription on the ark was translated to:
"No User Serviceable Parts Inside".

Ever since touching the arc electrocuted and killed Uzzah, inumerable
safety organizations have gone on a rampage producing draconian safety
rules and regulations. Because of the obvious high voltage, the boom
box ark was probably based on tubes, not semiconductors.

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