I was watching the Discovery Channel’s post-Apocalyptic show, The Colony-Season One, last night and was quite intrigued by the ‘Professor’s’ Spark Gap Transmitter project. Both he and the lady who is a rocket scientist worked to complete both a transmitter and receiver from spare junk left behind in an 80,000-foot warehouse they now called home.
I began seeing the importance of such a completed project. The transmitter immediately presented itself as a solution to communications needs for militias around the United States who might be able to communicate with one another by Morse code, if possible. Such a transmitter would allow militia members to quickly switch stations using the old technology to avoid the bad guys from listening to their communications. Continue reading “Spark Gap Transmitters and Receivers”