[Lowfer] Re: [Lowfer]

Ed Phillips [email protected]
Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:43:08 -0700


KD7JYK wrote:
> 
> Run HF, a few hundred watts, any frequency though I have had best luck
> around 18 MHz.  I have done well with as little as 10W but 300 nuked them.
> It also works to fry cell phones, light up flourescent bulbs, set off most
> every car, house and bank alarm within a few hundred yards, draw arcs off
> birds...  the list goes on.  Started having fun with this in the 80's with
> all the new junk on the market, it only gets more fun!
> 
> Kurt

	That doesn't always work.  Sometimes the neighbors about 3 houses away
hire a rock band which blasts out dreadful din until the early hours of
the morning.  I've tried pointing my 20M beam in that direction, firing
up the linear, and giving them a 1 kW blast.  Doesn't phase the damn
things!

Ed