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  • … that a single LDMOS transistor, running from around 50 volts, can produce more than a kilowatt at HF?
  • … that a National NC-173 receiver was carried on Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki raft expedition in 1947?
  • … that in auroral propagation, two stations point their antennas toward the aurora rather than at each other?
  • … that a ground-mounted vertical whose SWR gets a little worse as radials are added is usually improving?
  • … that MARS stations once relayed radio calls from service members in Antarctica onto the telephone network, connecting them with their families?
  • … that fox hunters build cheap Yagis with elements cut from a steel tape measure, which fold out of the way of branches and spring back?