It's my birthday...

....56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

Congratulations.


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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Graham." wrote in message
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...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

Does the antiquity of the radio-cake say something about you?

Bill

"Graham." wrote in message
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...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

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Graham.

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what no FM...take it back.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0100
"Graham." wrote:

...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

Damned youngsters, taking over t'internet.
Like the cake though.

R.

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

That's the first radio I've seen where the output is measured not in
watts but in candlepower.

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

That's the first radio I've seen where the output is measured not in
watts but in candlepower.


That's the first genuinely witty thing I've heard this week.

Bill

On 28 Aug, 15:54, "Bill Wright" wrote:
"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message

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On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

That's the first radio I've seen where the output is measured not in
watts but in candlepower.

That's the first genuinely witty thing I've heard this week.

Bill

Off topic but - Does anybody else remember an issue of Wireless World
in the late 40's or 50's with a photograph of a Russian oil-lamp cum
radio?
The lamp chimney was surrounded by thermo-couples which powered the
radio. I don't know how much HT it generated.
Presumably for use miles from civilisation.

Gives a new meaning to son-et-lumiere.

Harry

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

That's the first radio I've seen where the output is measured not in
watts but in candlepower.

That's the first genuinely witty thing I've heard this week.

Bill

Off topic but - Does anybody else remember an issue of Wireless World
in the late 40's or 50's with a photograph of a Russian oil-lamp cum
radio?
The lamp chimney was surrounded by thermo-couples which powered the
radio. I don't know how much HT it generated.
Presumably for use miles from civilisation.

Gives a new meaning to son-et-lumiere.

Harry

No, I'm not that old :-)
But David H Wild in uk.railway mentioned something
uncannily similar
http://snipurl.com/rgoac
(Google Groups archive, Post #69)

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On 28 Aug, 19:59, "Graham." wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:48:06 +0100, "Graham." wrote:

...56 today
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/infoweb/cake.jpg

That's the first radio I've seen where the output is measured not in
watts but in candlepower.

That's the first genuinely witty thing I've heard this week.

Bill

Off topic but - Does anybody else remember an issue of Wireless World
in the late 40's or 50's with a photograph of a Russian oil-lamp cum
radio?
The lamp chimney was surrounded by thermo-couples which powered the
radio. *I don't know how much HT it generated.
Presumably for use miles from civilisation.

Gives a new meaning to son-et-lumiere.

Harry

No, I'm not that old :-)
But David H Wild in uk.railway mentioned something
uncannily similarhttp://snipurl.com/rgoac
(Google Groups archive, Post *#69)

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Clearly the Russian one is the same thing - and the 1950's date fits
the idea that the radio was transistor, much more feasible than
battery valves..
I made my first transistor superhet in 1955 or 6. Before that I had
experimented with straight transistor sets.

I was amused by the pioneering gas-powered radio - it reminds me that
my mother at one time when I was little used a gas smoothing iron - a
fearsome thing with a flexible hose connected to a gas fire outlet.

I am 77 so my memory of dates so long ago is a bit hit and miss! I
started reading Wireless World in war time, c. 1943 and it started a
firm life-long electronic engineering interest; my working life was
spent with (mainly) mainframe computers, first on the engineering side
then on software and systems
"Cathode Ray" (Scroggie) and W.T. Cocking were great teachers. I made
my first TV when Holme Moss opened, c. 1950, with a VCR97 green
phosphor electrostatic tube.

Harry