[time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing
DaveH
info at blackmountainforge.com
Sat Jun 28 18:09:16 UTC 2014
A PDF of the 1960 book can be found here:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/projects_for_the_amateur_scienti
st.pdf
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Larry McDavid
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 22:47
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran, GPS, Lightning, Timing
>
> 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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