[Lowfer] Experimental antenna?

[KD7JYK]

From what I few many Military and Government entities do this, though at
much lower frequencies than where we operate.  I seem to re-call hearing
about a Soviet system that pours something like 60,000,000,W into the earth
and gets an ERP of about 3W.  I did some searching on the internet a few
years ago and found several references to this, but I have no bookmarks of
where I found the info.

Kurt

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----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick MacKinnon <pat2002@foxhollow.ca>
To: <lowfer@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 19:21
Subject: [Lowfer] Experimental antenna?


> I've been a ham for 15 years, but very new to this list, and will probably
> brew up a lowfer transmitting rig/antenna this summer. Forgive this newbie
> question, but:
>
> Has anyone tried water drilling two parallel copper pipes into the earth
and
> using this as a transmitting antenna? It just seems to me that would be a
> very effective way of inducing LF currents into the ground. (A fellow ham
> told me he recently attended a club presentation on VLF and he stated the
> earth itself carries the signal. Is this true or did he mis-hear
something?)
> [or am I so far off base here I'm in for the flaming of a lifetime?
> remember: please be kind, I'm new to this! :)  ]
>
> Thanks!
> Pat, VE3PMK
> London, ON, Canada
>
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