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Another memory of TA28, Rod: I recall that somebody on the course had
a clever simple circuit for a one transistor FM TX. ISTR that it might
even have been you?
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On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 13:56:01 +0100, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:

Another memory of TA28, Rod: I recall that somebody on the course had
a clever simple circuit for a one transistor FM TX. ISTR that it might
even have been you?

I couldn't possibly confirm or deny. :-)

I think every TA course then had its own pirate radio station, some of
them legendary for coverage range, one chap reputedly having been
kicked out for transmitting on medium wave as far as Birmingham. Ours,
with a TX powered by a PP3 battery, was only just detectable at the
front gate, but I think we had the best audio quality.

Rod.
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On 2026/7/3 13:56:1, Sn!pe wrote:

Another memory of TA28, Rod: I recall that somebody on the course had
a clever simple circuit for a one transistor FM TX. ISTR that it might
even have been you?

I remember such a thing from school in the 1970s; it involved a fairly
crude one-transistor oscillator, that possibly even worked by parasitic
pickup, i. e. shouldn't have worked at all. (2N2219A was it?) Ours had a
second transistor - BC108 possibly - but that was just to amplify a
microphone input. I do remember it involved a coil that was three or
four turns round a Biro, and a 3 or 4 inch aerial. IIRR, there were only
about two or three other components - maybe two R and a C? I know kits
were available - especially in US - to make such things, on about a
squinch of PCB.
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