[GreenKeys] CFH (was ELF in Canada...)

[Duncan Brown]

Ken,

I have copied "CFH Halifax" test transmissions on HF RTTY in recent 
years. Are  they still on the air??

(sad to see that the Sackville, NB antenna farm is no longer.)

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 26-Jul-17 09:42, Kenneth Gartland wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Back in the early 60's LF and ELF was very active
> on the East coast of Canada...
>
> It was located in Newport Corner's, Nova Scotia,
> only a few miles as the crow flies from my QTH
> in Windsor, N.S.
>
> The call sign was 'CFH'...
>
> Some of the transmitters were located in Albro Lake
> N.S., but the main LF and ELF antennas/transmitters
> were in Newport...
>
> This was an incredibly powerful station...
>
> I was in the RCAF Air Cadet Squadron at the time
> studying for my amateur ticket, and my instructor,
> VE1PP,  had arranged for the radio class for a tour
> thru the main facility...
>
> It was an adventure never forgotten...
>
> The Navy guys there never had many visitors
> to this site, and as you can imagine, a very classfied
> place...
>
> We were treated very well, and shown areas and equipment
> most people wud never see...
>
> Our Navy Escort fellow took great delight in having
> us hold standard fluorescent tubes, anywhere in the
> room and we cud see the tubes flickering from the
> keying of the transmitter...
>
> There was an intense amount of RF energy in the room,
> you cud sense its' presence...
>
> On most of the transmission lines, fluorescent tubes
> were fastened on, and you cud see them keying in step
> with the code being transmitted...
>
> To this day, I have never seen transmitter tubes so big!
>
> Outside, the main antenna was "Star" Shaped, supended
> by, I think, 5 towers 550'  high...
>
> Apparently, the signal(s) from these transmitters
> cud be heard anywhere in the world...
>
> When I lived in Windsor, the signal strength was so
> strong, it wud literally "Swamp" out most BCB receivers...
>
> The CFH call sign cud be clearly be heard all over
> the dial...
>
> Trying to do any serious DX'ing was challenging
> as the interference was continual...
>
> I generally kept to the higher HF frequencies
> to do meaningful DX...
>
> Thinking back, this visit to the transmitter facility
> further motivated me to get my ticket...(VE1-HMQ)
>
> Thanks for listening...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ken
> VE3-HMQ
> i-Telex 61663
>
>
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