TEXT IS FROM MARCH 2009 QST PAGES 72 AND 79 ‰ QST DE W1AW ƒ ‰ NOW 5 WPM ‰ EXPERIMENT 74 RESONANT CIRCUITS N0AX RESONANT CIRCUITS ARE THE OLDEST OF ALL RADIO CIRCUITS. HERTZS TRANSMITTER, WITH WHICH HE DISCOVERED RADIO WAVES, WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A SPARK EXCITED RESONANT CIRCUIT AND THE ƒ QST DE W1AW ‰ RECEIVER A SIMILAR CIRCUIT COUPLED TO A SIMPLE DETECTOR. IN THIS ‰ FROM PAGE 79 ‰ W/VE N0KE 176,505 K5TR 1,085,448 HG5Y 871, ‰ END OF 5 WPM TEXT ‰ QST DE W1AW ƒ