XPost: alt.slack, alt.slack.goathead   
   From: snipeco.2@gmail.com   
      
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   [...]   
   > > Back in ~'62 when I joined the local radio club, they had a stash of   
   > > NPN 2N706a rejects.  Only ~25% were completely dud, another 25%   
   > > sub-par and the remaining half were just slightly below spec.  I was   
   > > given a fistful of them to play with.  Among other things, I built a two   
   > > metre converter in a two-ounce tobacco tin using them.   
   > >   
   >   
   > we made crystal sets whenever we found the stuff needed   
   >   
      
   Cool, I did too.  The hardest thing to find was enough wire for the   
   antenna.  You need a good, long, wire to catch those ether-waves.   
      
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