[Lowfer] Equip Advise??????????

[Kristjan Ragnarson]

OK Troops - here's an OT (licensed in '54) thinking about going down instead 
of up into the
freqs that give me a headache just thinking about them. Just retired as R/O 
from merchant
marine and thinking about VLF. At the moment, interested mostly in SWL (or 
should I say
LWL?) as opposed to running TX/RX on VLF. If things prove interesting, will 
upgrade
later. Would also like to look into the "whistlers" and such. Now living on 
a large
lake so a good ground is pretty much assumed. Can put up up to 500 ft of 
wire for
antennas.
   Anyway, in regards to the Palomar VLF converter, anyone have 
praises/damnations?
What, if any, advantage of converting to 3.5-4.0 mhz as opposed to 4.0 -4.5 
mhz? I am of the
opinion that the 4.0-4.5 mhz readout on a receiver would make the mental 
arithmetic easier.
     Any other suggestions as to gear? Years ago, had a Collins R-389 when I 
was in Navy
(retired as RMC) and now regret getting rid of it.
     Here I would be feeding the Palomar (or any other gear) into any of the 
following gear:
1) Kenwood TS-830S
2) JRC NRD-525
3) R-390
4) R-388/51J3 (with a military panadaptor)
     Would appreciate any suggestions/hints/etc. on the Palomar or any other 
gear. At this
point, am just in the shopping around stage.
    Please reply to my personal email address of --- penguino@atlantic.net 
---
73 & TIA
Walt (N4GL)


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