Rocket Radio - first impression

[Mark M.]

At 21:38 11/26/1999 -0000, Terry Perdue wrote:
>Well, I bought one at Restoration Hardware today. It's pretty similar in
>construction to what I remember of the original, but the sensitivity is
>pretty disappointing. I've connected it to everything I can find that ought
>to act as an antenna, including a 20M dipole, phone line, metal parts of
>lamps, etc., and at best picked up one very faint station - at night! ...

Terry...

If I remember correctly, mine worked best connected to the metal finger
stop on a dial telephone.

I haven't seen one of those for a while...

73...   Mark   AA7TA

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