ham radio?

Wouff-Hong (sp?) Boy, that's an obscure reference. When I was in high-school, (back in the 70's) I picked up a couple of big boxes of QST magazines at a ham auction. Most of 'em were from the 1940's and 50's, but they were _very_ interesting reading, especially if you were into tinkering with old world-war II receivers (like the ARC-5 series...) I ran across a number of articles that mentioned the Wouff-Hong. From what I can remember, it was a wierdly-shaped piece of wood with a couple of rusty bits of metal hanging from it (probably was a fragment of an old cart hitch or something along those lines) From what I can remember, someone at ARRL headquarters found this item lying around somewhere in a storage area, and hung it on the wall just for grins. Nobody knew what it actually was, but it became kind of a joke to threaten to use it on someone as a punishment instrument if they did something against the ham ethic. I haven't heard a reference to it since high-school reading foray into the ham-past. (until now, that is :-) -al- (KD4TTQ) -acorda(a)geocities.com