“Once, when the Commander was selling automobiles, he drove a new car straight up the steps of a Grant Park statue as a publicity stunt,”legendarySun Timescolumnist Irv Kupcinet wrote in his memoirKup’s Chicago.“Another time, he publicized his short-wave radios by traveling north into th...
but if you hate it that much, why did you give it to me in the first place? Major: Well... that mask was originally created for use in another mission. An agent was supposed to disguise himself as a Soviet officer and sneak into an enemy installation. We had it all set to go,...
Most of the older (tube type, and AM only) radios had a loop inside the back panel. Quite different from the loop stick, but similar electrical properties. Car antennas don’t match the wavelengths for AM broadcast. Never have. That’s a case where matching matters less for receivers. (...
as they left Motor Transport at CHP, the relay boxes were all in the low band rooftop antenna line. The initial series of relay boxes were custom made by the CHP and State of California DGS shops, while the later boxes were made by Antenna Specialists Co. as a special...
Some shops will charge you for empty boxes and in my experience, you can find great boxes for under $10. My source & happy place! Every week at the Owl Shop AB1DQ’s not so secret stash Online sources for cigar boxes include eBay and Etsy as well as craft suppliers such as Michael...
to print numerous copies of a document at home with an inkjet or laser printer, or to go to the local copy store and print them there. But this hasn’t always been the case. 80 years ago, printing in quantity was more or less a secret art practiced only by professional print shops....