by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
What does a Spark Gap transmitter and crystal Radio do? The radios of Grantville, and what we brought with us, “salvage” radio design How does Radio work anyway, and why do we keep talking about the Maunder Minimum So what ARE they using if not sparks?...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
From a radio specialist’s perspective, Eric Flint could not have chosen a worse time to drop a town into than 1632. Just at the beginning of the period where there are telescopic observations of the heavens, approximately simultaneous with the trial of Galileo,...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
There are several parts to the radio FAQ. This part discusses Military/diplomatic communications in the CPE and the US. Another part discusses the barflies plans to build the Voice of America, a Giant AM radio station capable of being heard on little more than...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
Franconia (as a whole) Section 1. Outside the NewUS but inside the CPE: Brandenburg-Ansbach (Lutheran) (At the partition of 1541, 689 square miles; about 110,000 people) Brandenburg-Kulmbach-Bayreuth (Lutheran) (At the partition of 1541, about 660 square miles; about...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
From: “Virginia DeMarce” <virginiademarce@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Sep 23, 2002 5:24:24 PM US/Pacific Subject: Darlene, Jenny, and the whole Pilcher menage Here are Darlene and Jenny’s maiden/married names, along with an overview of: The Pilcher...
