Yup, CB and amateur radio are in decline since the mobile phone came out.
People used to use it for communicating over distance, now its much easier to punch some numbers and get someone on the horn, than hoping the other party has his radio on. Only the really enthused stayed with it.

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Ha ha! yup, very true :lol: i wasnt actually serious about doing it. You know what is odd? There is a fry's electronics store right by where I live and out in the front they have two MASSIVE jacob's ladders (50ft tall) with an arc that stretches about 3 or 4 ft. Funny thing is, they have no faraday cage on it! Its just encased in glass that is tinted, maybe to keep UV from getting out or something. Hmm, maybe it is lead lined glass.

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What if it arced trough the glass? Truble for the shop ovner.

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I think that that is as much protection as you need, because the arc mainly stays between the rods. and glass is a very good isolator.

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Oh yea none of the rods is grounded so its no problem.

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Haha, very funny fact: my problem was the apostrophy :? :lol: ... It was directing me to non-related websites... When I took it off, it found the horror-like moives stuff... Pretty cool, actually...

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hi,
does it need to be dc or ac to work? i want to do this project as well (not on a hood of a car though) will a flyback ttransformer out of a computer moniter work.

thanks, daniel.

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What's a flyback transformer?

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a flyback transformer is like any other transformer exept it has something in it that makes the seconary coil spike insted of a continues output (hence the name "flyback") it is used in tv's and computer moniters to get the 30Kv needed to get the radiation. i hope this is right ops: but i don't know much about them.

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Same as the frys by my house they also have something else in there that is crazy but I forgot what it is

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It was you when you were there. :lol:

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That actually was a good one audioguru
unlike some of your other jokes.
:lol:

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You don't like my jokes about USA?
Tonight's American news reported that a lot of the looting in evacuated New Orleans after the hurricane was done by their cops.
They stole a generator and fridge from a hospital to keep their stolen beer cool. They got plenty of Rolex watches and other expensive stuff.
It is not a joke! (but I am still laughing)

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But they will also have to steal some fuel for the generatoir from time to time.

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They were seen and reported to the highest authority - rest assured.

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