>From: JWBarlow@...
>This sounds very interesting! I suggest you let Paul take a look at it so
he
>can build a similar module -- advertise it as "sounds from Vulcan,"
everyone
>will think it means Star Trek.
and funnily enough, when i fired the thing up this morning it sounded
totally different to what it did last night - for a while it was a-l-m-o-s-t
the Doctor Who Theme.
>Where did you get a pulse generator from a Vulcan bomber -- you didn't buy
>form a guy named Blofeld at some tech swap meet did you?
nope, it was an old guy (very old) and his cat who ran a small warehouse
down in the Don Valley (industrial wasteland cum shopping mall part of
Sheffield) - he must have been a radio ham who turned to the dark side (he
even had a radar tower on his roof), and started buying and selling stuff
from government auction. i don't think he ever sold a great deal - only
stuff to other radio hams. he retired about two or three years ago - and I
always wander what happened to his stock...
cheers
paul