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Thread ID: 102856 2009-09-04 00:21:00 Radio Waves: Anyone used them? maccrazy (6741) PC World Chat
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806752 2009-09-04 00:21:00 Hi guys,

I'm looking at having an iPhone adapter installed in my car. I came across a business called Radio Waves (http://www.radio-waves.co.nz) who sells the necessary adapter - can't find anyone else that sells it.

Does anyone have any experience with them? Specifically, using them for installation.

Thanks
maccrazy (6741)
806753 2009-09-04 21:31:00 Does anyone have any experience with them?
Thanks

We use radio waves in the US all the time .

From CB radio service all the way up to cooking our food in a little magic white box with a window on front of it .

Why, in MY day, we captured radio waves with a cat's whisker, a germanium crystal, some wound copper wire, an oatmeal container and some crystal earphones .

Why - we could actually HEAR things on the radio waves that way!

I just think of the day when it all gets improved and can be used for something good instead of just entertainment .

Maybe I'll build another crystal radio and see if I can find Jack Benny and Little John And Sparky and see what they've been up to all these years .
SurferJoe46 (51)
806754 2009-09-05 00:49:00 Not sure what you mean by adapter for an iPhone...

They have bluetooth so any head-deck that has it will be able to work it hands free... Or did you mean something else?
Cato (6936)
806755 2009-09-05 00:49:00 We use radio waves in the US all the time.

From CB radio service all the way up to cooking our food in a little magic white box with a window on front of it.

Why, in MY day, we captured radio waves with a cat's whisker, a germanium crystal, some wound copper wire, an oatmeal container and some crystal earphones.

Why - we could actually HEAR things on the radio waves that way!

I just think of the day when it all gets improved and can be used for something good instead of just entertainment.

Maybe I'll build another crystal radio and see if I can find Jack Benny and Little John And Sparky and see what they've been up to all these years.

They didn't have crystal earphones in my day, we had to use high impedance earphones. SG Brown were reckoned to be good!

Edit: high impedance earphones used a steel diaphragm activated by ironed cored coils in near contact, said coils wound with many turns of fine wire.............
Terry Porritt (14)
806756 2009-09-05 00:53:00 www.originaloldradio.com feersumendjinn (64)
806757 2009-09-05 01:06:00 . originaloldradio . com/big_john_and_sparky . html" target="_blank">www . originaloldradio . com

OK - OK! It was BIG John & Sparky!

It was a long time ago and I was smaller too .
SurferJoe46 (51)
806758 2009-09-05 01:26:00 Wasn't trying to prove you wrong SJ, just thought you might like some nostalgia.
I don't think that series was ever played here though.
feersumendjinn (64)
806759 2009-09-05 01:29:00 Now you done it!

I like that site and am copying the Amos 'n' Andy Show from 1936 on the Lux Radio Theater.
SurferJoe46 (51)
806760 2009-09-05 01:38:00 I am proud to say I have absolutely no idea what you old people are talking about. :p Cato (6936)
806761 2009-09-05 04:16:00 I am proud to say I have absolutely no idea what you old people are talking about. :p

X2 :ban:xmouth:
gary67 (56)
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