Hey Jumpiteerz!

Talk about funny things kids say, the Official Radio Station of Texas State University – San Marcos was giving the local Boys & Girls Club a tour of the KTSW radio station today and one of the kids asked how do you get the music up in the air? and posted it on Twitter.

There is no easy way to explain this to a kid but you can make a radio very easily.

Here’s what you need:

• Take a fresh 9-volt battery and a coin.
• Find an AM radio and tune it to an area of the dial where you hear static.
• Now hold the battery near the antenna and quickly tap the two terminals of the battery with the coin (so that you connect them together for an instant).
• You will hear a crackle in the radio that is caused by the connection and disconnection of the coin.

By tapping the terminals of a 9-volt battery with a coin, you can create radio waves that an AM radio can receive!

Your battery/coin combination is a radio transmitter! It’s not transmitting anything useful (just static), and it will not transmit very far (just a few inches, because it’s not optimized for distance). But if you use the static to tap out Morse code, you can actually communicate over several inches with this crude device!

You can learn more about how radio works as well as anything else you can imagine at the How Stuff Works website.

You can follow KTSW on Twitter @KTSW_899

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Hi to all! We have a fun discussion going on Twitter Moms and Facebook about one of the most unpredictable things moms and dads have to go through…Listening to their kids say the cutest things!

Here are a couple of our favorites so far:

Nancy from Twitter Moms:

I remember when my 4 year old daughter named Kelly after we had adopted a male cocker spaniel. I was bathing my daughter in the bath tub when suddenly the dog came running in, my daughter started screaming to the top of her lungs – “No mama, he can not come in!!” “But honey, I answered, he is only a dog!” “But mom, he is a BOY!!, and I am naked!”

Ahhh the cuttest thing ever!

 

Angela from Twitter Moms:

This is embarrassing! When our son was 3 and we were seated in a restaurant, he was excited to have his milk served with a straw. The other diners were talking quietly and he blurted out “Suck it good!” After my face probably turned purple, I managed to look at my husband sitting across the table with our son next to him. We could both hardly keep from laughing hysterically. A woman seated near us just sat with a big grin on her face. Great question.

So what’s your favorite story? Share your your story in the comments or join the discussion on Twitter Moms or Facebook!

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