This is certainly a distraction from the purpose of this list, but the
comment about the oven microwave crowd caught my eye.  My understanding
was that microwaves in general had poor frequency control, and household
microwave magnetrons in particular.  How has the mentioned group
harnessed these things for communications??

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> Tinkering with UHF and expecting results the first time over is not
> realistic. Pick up a video + audio modulator from a defunct VCR (or as a
> spare part) and power it as advertised. This and a whip stub antenna will
> work over 10 feet or so and it's mostly legal everywhere. If you need
> more, invest $60 and buy a video sender, also legal. On the illegal side,
> you might soon want to join the oven microwave magnetron crowd ;)
>
> Peter
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