You "can" tune my Heath DX-60 with a light bulb :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Taylor [mailto:ntaylor@INAME.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 12:09 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT] Interactive Laser/Neon Light?


The radio operator on World War II B-29 bombers tuned their AN/ART-13
HF transmitters with a fluorescent tube or a neon bulb tied near the
antenna lead.

 - Nick -

Agnes en Henk Tobbe wrote:
>
> >I have sometimes taken a Neon-bulb based AC voltage tester and only
plugged
> >the one lead into the hot side and left the other side floating in
the air.
>
> The older radio amateurs - the ones from the era before the standing
wave
> ratio meters became polular - tuned the output stage of a transmitter
by
> holding a neon lamp with one end near or touching the antenna.
> When brightest tuning and loading was optimal....
>
> VK2GWK - HENK
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