[Elecraft] [K3] K3 on 500 kHz

[Rick Dettinger]

   I ordered a Palomar VLF converter a year ago from HRO and they had  
to refund my money.  They said that the VLF converter was no longer  
being made.  The Palomar Engineers web site seems to reflect this.   
They only show balun stuff, now.

73,

Rick Dettinger   K7MW


On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:

> Wayne Burdick wrote:
>> What I
>> meant was that you *could* make a transverter for these bands and
>> interface it to the K3 via KXV3 module. We don't have plans to  
>> offer one
>> ourselves.
>
> I've had a Palomar VLF Converter for years, works really great, and
> better with my K3.  Converts [allegedly] DC to 500 KHz to 3.5 to 4.0
> MHz.  LORAN-C noise here on the US Pacific Coast is a bit of a  
> problem,
> we're fairly close to Middletown CA which has a USCG LORAN station,  
> but
> the loop will null most of it out.  Seems to work good down to about  
> 12
> KHz, then things get mushy.  I think I've even heard the power line
> carrier current telemetry ... we have a 145KV line close to us and I
> know it carries it, we have hydroelectric plants above and below us  
> and
> I can see the chokes in the substations.  That said, I haven't had the
> Palomar on for about a year, maybe I'll hook it up again and see  
> what's
> there.  There was some word [maybe urban legends] that the CG was  
> going
> to shut down LORAN-C in the face of GPS.  I've heard the West Coast
> 500KHZ ham beacon several times, can't remember the call now.
>
> I really can't see why Elecraft would want to delve into such a low
> volume market when there are a number of cheap alternatives already  
> out
> there.  I'd rather they work on the solid-state amps :-)
>
> As a High School senior at 16, I got to work ships at sea on 500Kcs  
> from
> a coastal marine station as a relief operator.  The Holy Frequency is
> eerily silent these days compared to then, when it was a sort of
> world-wide party-line.  But, that was then and this is now.  LoFer is
> sort of fun for awhile, but I can't transmit there and the fun tends  
> to
> fade after I've identified all the NDB's I can hear.
>
> 73 and a Good New Year to all,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> Auburn CA USA
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