Re: Magloop Antenna Using ebay LNA
I still have part of a small box of 4-247s if anyone fancies building a loop.
A total of >40,000 transistors were handed out, free, around the world. That's not a misprint. And the world swallowed them up without a trace. Nary a burp! I've kept an eye open for any surfacing anywhere just out of curiosity. All I kept myself was a couple of hundred, and yes, I've actually used them in real projects. They were lifetime buy parts for the calibrator boards of RF power meters, and when the plant was closed down there was no plan to transfer old products out East, so a boss asked me if I could find a better home for them than landfill which was their only alternate fate.
The free aspect was morally necessary, but a psychological mistake, I fear.
David
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Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done
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