Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

Nope but they did come looking for my younger brother in about 1949 0r
50. somebody gave him a "Tesla coil machine" and he used to come home
from school and "experiment" with it. Eventually there was a funny
looking panel truck driving around, had a big "ring" on the roof, and
one day a pleasant young guy rapped on the door and asked my mother if
anyone in the family was a radio operator. She showed him the Tesla
coil and he laughed. told her to tell her boy not to play with it when
people wanted to watch TV. It seems that my brother in his
"experiment" had attached an antenna to the coil and was broadcasting.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

Imagine this monster down your street...(c;

Tesla coilers are very serious people....scary.

Notice the huge power supply and, at the base of the coil, the massive
spark gap lit up white hot....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jV6Dhza2G0
Of course, that can't match what the power company boys can do...(c;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMTSDzU1Z4
...or the effects of the HAARP weapon.....

Marty wrote in news:_c-dnVbNmb-
:

I just did a bit of arithmetic, should have written 38,, sheesh how
time flies when your havin' fun!

Cheers
Martin



I tell the teens being 60 and single is like being 19, except you have
money....(c;]

"Larry" wrote in message
...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

Imagine this monster down your street...(c;

Tesla coilers are very serious people....scary.

Notice the huge power supply and, at the base of the coil, the massive
spark gap lit up white hot....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jV6Dhza2G0
Of course, that can't match what the power company boys can do...(c;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMTSDzU1Z4
..or the effects of the HAARP weapon.....


The Earth needs to be recharged from time to time. I'm glad someone is
seeing to it.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:38:09 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:32:19 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:29:40 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Interesting. I had always assumed that it was just a boat that someone
built for the movie company as the story was fiction so there wasn't,
I believed, an "original" African Queen"

In passenger and freight service from 1912 to 1968, if that is
original enough. British built of riveted steel, by the way.

Casady


But was it the boat in the movie, or was the movie boat a copy? Or a
whole different boat?

Just the one boat. Converted to Diesel for the movie, back to steam in
the US.

Casady

In article , jeff wrote:
Bruce in Bangkok wrote:
But was it the boat in the movie, or was the movie boat a copy? Or a
whole different boat?


Yes! That was the original boat. However, many of the shots were
special effects - a mockup, a water tank, models, etc. But for the
shots of an actual boat, that was it. Or so they claimed.

Here's another shot of it:

URL: http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l11/tel52/Pompano%20and%20Key%20Largo/African_Queen.jpg

Justin.

--
Justin C, by the sea.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:45:16 +0000, Larry wrote:

Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

Nope but they did come looking for my younger brother in about 1949 0r
50. somebody gave him a "Tesla coil machine" and he used to come home
from school and "experiment" with it. Eventually there was a funny
looking panel truck driving around, had a big "ring" on the roof, and
one day a pleasant young guy rapped on the door and asked my mother if
anyone in the family was a radio operator. She showed him the Tesla
coil and he laughed. told her to tell her boy not to play with it when
people wanted to watch TV. It seems that my brother in his
"experiment" had attached an antenna to the coil and was broadcasting.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30

Imagine this monster down your street...(c;

Tesla coilers are very serious people....scary.

Notice the huge power supply and, at the base of the coil, the massive
spark gap lit up white hot....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jV6Dhza2G0
Of course, that can't match what the power company boys can do...(c;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMTSDzU1Z4
..or the effects of the HAARP weapon.....


My brother's would light up a florescent tube (neon light, in the
argot of the day :-) by holding it on your hand and weaving it near
the secondary coil. It also produced some scary long sparks.

As I remember it my brother had rigged up a "pulser" for it by gluing
tin foil from a some cigarette wrapper on a phonograph record and
rigging two wire contractors to complete a circuit as the record
turned. The FCC guy said that was certainly interesting but probably
didn't contributed much to the T.V. viewer's enjoyment.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:26:36 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:38:09 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:32:19 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:29:40 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

Interesting. I had always assumed that it was just a boat that someone
built for the movie company as the story was fiction so there wasn't,
I believed, an "original" African Queen"

In passenger and freight service from 1912 to 1968, if that is
original enough. British built of riveted steel, by the way.

Casady


But was it the boat in the movie, or was the movie boat a copy? Or a
whole different boat?

Just the one boat. Converted to Diesel for the movie, back to steam in
the US.

Casady


Was any of the movie story true, or even partly true? The sinking of
the German boat, for example?

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)

Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

The FCC guy said that was certainly interesting but probably
didn't contributed much to the T.V. viewer's enjoyment.



FCC guys are no fun at all with TV viewers breathin' down his neck
bitching up a storm....

FCC showed up at my house to inspect the 1500 watt ham station from a
neighbor's complaint. We went through the motions on the Collins S-line
I was running at the time, the finest equipment of the day. After
coffee and donuts (Hey! He's a cop..of sorts!) I invited the FCC guy to
the neighbor's house so he could take Polaroids of the complainant's
television antenna, a pair of 99c rabbit ears duct taped to a branch of
the oak tree over her porch with several pieces of twinlead duct taped
together to reach the 13" Korean PoS $79 TV she watched...when she
could.

FCC sent her a letter and put it in with the TVI handbook they publish
for Crap TV owners explaining how she needed to get a real TV antenna or
connect to the cable system to solve her problem.

Now told her TV, not my $8000 ham station, was at fault, she decided to
shoot at me with a .22 pistol that barely missed me.

Her next visit was from the Charleston County Sheriff. They dug the
bullet out of my wall for evidence and charged her with Attempted Murder
and a couple of concealed weapons charges. Her brother came and emptied
her stuff out of the house so I guess she wasn't coming back and we
never saw her again.

I had my neighborhood kids climb up and take down the problem antenna so
some other idiot with a pistol didn't hook it to HIS TV.....

If you want to be responsible for every blown light bulb, home appliance
and TV cable outage....erect a 60' tower in your yard with a big ham
radio antenna on it. You don't need a license or transmitter......

"Don't **** me off or I'll turn that antenna around and point it at
YOU!"....the ray gun effect.

Everybody loves ham radio right after a hurricane when the phones are
dead and they can't call anyone....

"Larry" wrote in message
...
Bruce in Bangkok wrote in
:

The FCC guy said that was certainly interesting but probably
didn't contributed much to the T.V. viewer's enjoyment.



FCC guys are no fun at all with TV viewers breathin' down his neck
bitching up a storm....

FCC showed up at my house to inspect the 1500 watt ham station from a
neighbor's complaint. We went through the motions on the Collins S-line
I was running at the time, the finest equipment of the day. After
coffee and donuts (Hey! He's a cop..of sorts!) I invited the FCC guy to
the neighbor's house so he could take Polaroids of the complainant's
television antenna, a pair of 99c rabbit ears duct taped to a branch of
the oak tree over her porch with several pieces of twinlead duct taped
together to reach the 13" Korean PoS $79 TV she watched...when she
could.

FCC sent her a letter and put it in with the TVI handbook they publish
for Crap TV owners explaining how she needed to get a real TV antenna or
connect to the cable system to solve her problem.

Now told her TV, not my $8000 ham station, was at fault, she decided to
shoot at me with a .22 pistol that barely missed me.

Her next visit was from the Charleston County Sheriff. They dug the
bullet out of my wall for evidence and charged her with Attempted Murder
and a couple of concealed weapons charges. Her brother came and emptied
her stuff out of the house so I guess she wasn't coming back and we
never saw her again.

I had my neighborhood kids climb up and take down the problem antenna so
some other idiot with a pistol didn't hook it to HIS TV.....

If you want to be responsible for every blown light bulb, home appliance
and TV cable outage....erect a 60' tower in your yard with a big ham
radio antenna on it. You don't need a license or transmitter......

"Don't **** me off or I'll turn that antenna around and point it at
YOU!"....the ray gun effect.

Everybody loves ham radio right after a hurricane when the phones are
dead and they can't call anyone....



Wow... you live in a great neighborhood!


--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:46:42 +0000, Larry wrote:

I tell the teens being 60 and single is like being 19, except you have
money....(c;]

Not quite. Have you tried getting a date with an 18 y/o babe?