23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
4:19 a.m.
Dear Friends,
I am a little hazy on the exact details as it was a while ago but I remember seeing the 1938 film "Nancy Drew - Detective" based on the book of the same title.
Nancy and her boyfriend Ted get locked in the cellar of an old house by the bad guys. They cannot get out but looking around, they discover an old wireless spark-gap set. They get it working and transmit their location in morse code. The spark-gap transmitter causes interference to every radio in the neighborhood and someone realizes it is morse code and decodes the message. The police come and save them from the cellar and they help to find the bad guys.
Good thing that so many people knew morse code back then :)
73, Tony AA2TX