In article , "Clint"
rattlehead@computronDOTnet writes:

spurious analogies are in the PCTA handbook, bill.

Clint
KB5ZHT

Heh heh heh...too bad that "spark" is outlawed.

PCTA types would demand that ALL hams know "spark" theory and
operating skills if it was still legal... :-)

LHA

Oh, MAN! GOOD POINT!!!!
that's what I like about forums, enough people share ideas and group X
thinks of things that group Y didn't, and vica versa... just where IS
the PCTA's emphasis on "basics" and such, when the very basic
beginning is not only NOT pushed upon them, but outlawed?

Oh, it's TOO sweet!!!!!!

Well, that's how it goes. Every amateur must know morse in order to save
the next Titanic or something. Morse is used "countless times" in national
emergencies. It is the next most basic radio communications thing, etc.
["countless" is apt because the number of actual emergency comms done
by on-off-keying modes is zero, zilch, nada...unless the self-promoters
think that Health and Welfare messages are "emergencies."]

"Spark" or damped-wave RFI generators could only be used in any kind of
communications by an on-off keying mode. Wasn't possible to AM it or
FM it, or PM it or much of anything else except on-off kind of thing.

Somewhere about now, Rev. Jim is going to come up with the famous 1906
first-known AM application...and conveniently fail to note that such was
done on a rather large alternator generator (definitely not a "spark" xmtr)
and using a water-cooled microphone. Not really practical except it proved
AM was possible and receivable on a crystal receiving set or coherer.

Beep, beep

LHA.