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September 1942 QST
 [Table
of Contents]These articles are scanned and OCRed from old editions of the
ARRL's QST magazine. Here is a list of the
QST articles I have already posted. As time permits, I will
be glad to scan articles for you. All copyrights (if any) are hereby acknowledged.
See all available vintage QST articles. Ravin (With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe) By Meyer Dolinko ONCE upon a midday dreary, while I pondered weak and weary In the class laboratory, idly tracing some old set; As I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of something gently rapping - rapping in my superhet. Ah - I sharply recollect it came so fast I'd ne'er expect it, But I quickly did detect it - and began to trouble shoot. Took my faithful long-nosed plier, poked into my amplifier, Deftly pulled upon a wire - one, or two - or four. Then I spent ten minutes praying, heard myself quite softly saying, "Quoth the speaker: 'Nevermore!'" Stunned and filled with indignation, I withdrew in consternation As the mystic oscillation kept on drumming in my ears. "Stray capacitance!" I muttered, but the word was hardly uttered When the speaker coughed and stuttered adding greatly to my fears. "Either this, or else distortion!" So I quickly seized a portion Of my set, and threw all caution out the door With a swiftly mounting fever and the patience of a beaver Swore I'd fix that damned receiver. Quoth the speaker: "Nevermore!" Now I looked up rather smartly, thought I had the answer, partly, For it was my shunt-feed Hartley that was troubling me - I guessed. Posted 3/24/2011 | ||||||
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