From Leigh WA5ZNU via the fpqrp mailing list:
Don’t forget International Toroid Day, August 29th 0000-2359 Zulu time. That starts tomorrow evening in the US.
Special event station W1T honors the 176th anniversary of the invention of the toroid by Michael Faraday, and will be operated by many toroid luminaries, including W8DIZ, the Toroid King. Please see the Intl. Toroid Day website for operating times, frequencies, and modes or listen for the call “CQ T” (long dash) or “CQ Toroid Day.”
For a suggested Toroid Day snack, please see the Evil Scientis website. I’m also told that you can wind red licorice around donuts, yum.
I bagged W1T last night. :)
Update 9/7/07:
I got this cool QSL yesterday. The drawings are from Faraday’s notebooks in which he describes the toroid.
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