Our friends over at the SolderSmoke Daily News recently posted this fun piece from a January 1921 issue of Radio News:
This is great! I’ve often thought a proper ground needed daily watering. And we know it must work: Mars is some serious DX! Professor Nutty T. Wyrlus was way ahead of his time.
Click here to check out the original post at the SolderSmoke Daily News.
For those who haven’t experienced it, listening to your first station with a totally passive crystal set is really magical. I never got Mars though!
Ha ha!
Reminds me of the time long ago , about 50 years (!) as an enthusiastic SWL I wanted better reception on a Pye 39/JH ( ?) multiband up-market receiver with excellent bandspread . So with a crocodile clip I connected the receiver to a telephone wire close by. Result excellent reception .
For a while . About a week later a knock on the door revealed the postman standing there . I was requested to remove the connection to the telephone wire immediately . Strange voices and noise were being heard at the exchange end ! Back to climbing the local trees then .
Des Walsh EI5CD