Obsolete phrases 2803
My grandparents retired a few years ago and were tossing their office furniture, including a 1916 Royal typewriter. I was like "*I* *W*A*N...
Power amp, tuning circuit, and other dumb radio stuff... yes. The "handset" would have consisted of the preamp, socket for keying and the 'secure' stuff like scrambler.
If you suspected that your wire was tapped, you could hook up a high voltage generator and blow their front ends. Infantry have a few of those generators; used for setting off detonators to make claymores go boooooooooooooooom.
With HF, the antenna is quite cheap compared to VHF-UHF. Can also be much harder to spot. Getting it up the trees requires a certain amount of skill that I didn't master in the few days of the course.
PCB ... point-capped-boss. :-)
I had about 30 job applications to defence research establishments up int the air at the time. About the same number to contractors to defence. This I didn't remember until last night when I cleaned out copies and records of over 200 job applications I made after completing degree studies at the end of 1982. 1983 was a bad year... spent it mostly "unemployed" doing part-time and contract work. -- "Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia ASCII ribbon campaign "Laws do not persuade just because X against HTML mail they threaten." and postings Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4BC - 65AD.
Ah, I've done alittleresearch into this: A homonym is a word that has the same pronunciation or spelling (or both) as another word...
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