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Speaking of stories...
Telecolor3007's statement that he is writing a story (the reason he asked about remotely controlled bombs) reminds me of a story I am currently writing, and have been writing since perhaps the 1980s. The story has several subplots and is about 700 pages long (more or less) at this point; however, I mention in a part of the story I wrote about eleven years ago a fictional Hawaiian radio station, KNLS-AM 1040 in an equally fictitious Hawaiian resort town I call Nookyolani, in which the disk jockey could control everything in the studio, except the transmitter, simply by dancing around the room. I came up with the idea for this a decade or so before the Kinect sensor for Xbox 360 came on the market, but I'm not worried about Sony stealing my idea since my story is not and will not be copyrighted.
BTW, I remember the Carl and Jerry stories in Popular Electronics. One of my favorites was titled "Therry and the Pirates", in which Carl (the more athletic one) wore a theremin on his back during one of his high school's basketball games, and the thing kept sounding off with loud feedback-like noises through the gymnasium's PA system (which Jerry controlled from the school's audio control booth). I didn't look at the index linked to in this thread to see if that particular C&J story is listed there, but I'll look again later on. If it is listed and is hyperlinked (many of the listed C&J stories aren't), I'd like to read it again, as I seem to have forgotten what role the theremin played.
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Jeff, WB8NHV
Collecting, restoring and enjoying vintage Zenith radios since 2002
Zenith. Gone, but not forgotten.
Last edited by Jeffhs; 03-14-2011 at 08:41 PM.
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