[Lowfer] Lowfer Survey...

Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:31:29 -0500

How about asking what they know already about Lowfers. Change your nickname
and ask as if you were a newbie. You might get a ton of mail that way. If
not, they don't care and off to another group you go.

Mike>WE0H
http://www.we0h.us/lf.html

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Bill Ashlock
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Lowfer Survey...

All,

Mike R and John Ds comments on Lowfer types and who is listening to our
beacon signals got me to wondering how to spread the word to non-Lowfer,
electronics-related groups, about the simplicity of tuning in and viewing
our QRSS signals. I figure that the more signal reports from differing
locations, the merrier - and maybe some might even take on transmitting as
well. Read on...

I subscribe to [email protected], an active group interested in
discussing various aspects of their Icom R75s and I figured this would be a
good starting point since the R75 receiver meets all the requirements for a
good Lowfer receiver. I composed what I thought was a good introduction to
QRSSing, covering the use of using ARGO, the need to set up more than a
long-wire antenna, and gave the URL to Mitch's site which has the nifty
sixpack of signals that he captured earlier in the week. I asked for return
questions on details for setting this up, figuring there would be quite a
few interested, but guess what? 24 hours later - no replies!

I'd appreciate any thoughts on this or other ideas on how to 'spread the
word'. Is it possible that most of the SWLs all ready know all about
available digital receiving techniques for copying Lowfer signals and just
aren't interested?

Bill (In an evangelistic mode)