<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:09 PM, ITechGeek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:itg@itechgeek.com" target="_blank">itg@itechgeek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Am I the only one who wonders what parts of a CAT can be used in a radio?</div></div>
</blockquote><div><br><pre>From Radio Bygones magazine:
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"Radio historian Lawrence A. Pizzella WR6K notes anecdotal stories of
shipboard wireless operators in the second decade of the 20th century
achieving amplification using a silicon carbide (carborundum) crystal
<b>and two cat's whiskers."<br></b></pre><pre>-quoted in "Transistor's Secret History", by John Radio<br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsf-blabber/2013-October/006954.html">http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsf-blabber/2013-October/006954.html</a><br>
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