[ARC5] [Milsurplus] If You Need a Regulated Low B+ Supply

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

I like to listen to LF and VLF stations and beacons and have noticed the noise level going up over the years. I periodically loose power and have a couple of gel cells ready in the shack to power up my receivers, active whips and loops during the outage. I guess this is a case of turning lemons into lemonade.

We lost power for 12 hours Wednesday night to Thursday morning during the snowstorm. I spend a couple of hours listeneing below the 540khz and picked up lots of beacons that would have normally be obscured by the QRN.
 
I got hooked on the LF bands years ago when I picked up a BC-453-B. I traded that a couple of these sets for a BC-779 (Super Pro) to an Elmer of mine who worked at RCA Radio Central on Long Island. He was thinking of becoming a Radio Officer. He used two command sets to listen to both sides of 600 meter QSO's.

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: Kenneth G. Gordon 
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:15:05 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus]  If You Need a Regulated Low B+ Supply

On 15 Feb 2010 at 8:04, Bill Cromwell wrote:

> That's almost an entirely different topic. I have found that everything
> digital contributes to the demise of weak signal reception.

Indeed!