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
This is how it all started, with a post from Eric Flint to the “Authors” conference in Baen’s Bar. This was before there was such a thing as a “1632 Tech Manual” conference, and the proposed title was “Fire in the Hole” (later...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
The following is subject to Eric’s approval, but he has incorporated most of the following to date…. Gayle Mason did most of her ham work on 80 meters, and while she liked QRP (low power), she had a legal limit amplifier using four big commercial radio...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
From: “Virginia DeMarce” <virginiademarce@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:33:05 PM US/Pacific Subject: Imperial Free Cities Germany’s political structure 1600-1630 (very approximate); 50 ecclesiastical princes 30 secular princes over 100...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
More Than You Wanted To Know About Vacuum Tubes “Leonard Hollar” <lhollar@battlefieldpress.com> wrote: What did Edison use to create the vacuum for his carbon filament light bulbs? Answer: It doesn’t matter. We’re not talking about light...
by Rick Boatright | Apr 6, 2015 | 1632 Tech
From: “Virginia DeMarce” <virginiademarce@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:26:33 -0600 Subject: Laity and literacy For pulling early modern Germans out of stereotypes, one of the more interesting things to read is Miriam Usher Chrisman, Lay...
