Thanks for the reply, I like hearing about some of the more novel radio stuff being done. Modern consumer electronics really did spoil people for understanding a lot of this stuff, it's a shame. I'd like to one day build some of this stuff myself from scratch, but I think the level of my technical ability right now would be a spark gap transmitter and a foxhole receiver, lol. As an aside, the stories of radio and amateur radio seems like a folklore of its own. It's not all written down, but you hear some interesting stories by word of mouth every once in a while.