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When I was at primary school in the early 70's I never understood why they(my Grandfather and uncles) called the radio a whyliss! ...turn on the whyliss....did you hear the whyliss.....
Until 1980(12 years old) when I bought a ZC-1 Transceiver at a yard sale for 2 bucks(it took me and my best mate a while to carry it home while pushing our bikes with the other hand) and bought it home and my Dad and I got it working. It had blown fuses we fixed with tin foil,something I still carry in the tool kit to this day.
I was listening to all sorts of strange languages and conversations a 12 year old should not have heard(old style internet). I could only receive and not transmit very well,but could get a signal out sometimes using alligator clips and wire from my Dad's garage connected to the neighbours antenna for his ham radio(some things never change)....some of you will get that one.
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When my Grandfather saw it he said "you got yourself a real wire less",. That is when I worked out what a whyliss was.
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Just from a safety perspective, since no one wants to see you burn your car or something/someone else to the ground, fuses are there for a reason, and they blow for a reason. If a fuse blew, 99.8% of the time, it was a really good reason it blew, and replacing with aluminum foil (I don't know where you get tin foil), is a really bad thing to do, speaking as an electrical engineer. Lots of people have caused electrical fires doing that and lost their car or worse.
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