[time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing

Larry McDavid lmcdavid at lmceng.com
Sat Jun 28 05:46:57 UTC 2014


C. L. Stong wrote The Amateur Scientist articles in Scientific American 
magazine for many years, throughout the 1940s - 1960s and later period. 
As a child, I read these avidly and built many of the things he 
described. I did not know he was a ham!

All The Amateur Scientist articles are available on a CD. I particularly 
remember building a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer (well, a 
simple one) in the late 1950s from one of his articles.

Scientific American magazine today is a mere shadow of its former self, 
due mainly to a new publisher imported from Popular Science magazine. 
There is no longer an Amateur Scientist article in each issue.

Larry W6FUB


On 6/27/2014 9:34 PM, DaveH wrote:
> The only C.L. Stong (W2PFM - great call!!!) article that I could find at QST
> came up in an archive search:  "How to Cook a Ham" from March 1947
>
> A story about not having safety interlocks and getting zapped.
>
> http://p1k.arrl.org/pubs_archive/28044
>
> You need to be an ARRL member to access the file.
>
> I also searched for "Lightning" and found nothing about detecting nearby
> strikes, only about protection. Searched from around 1980 back through 1940.
>
> Same for e-field.
>
> Dave
> KF7VNE
...

-- 
Best wishes,

Larry McDavid W6FUB
Anaheim, California  (SE of Los Angeles, near Disneyland)



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