[Lowfer] VLF

[Eric Vogel]

One of the best paces to start is http://www.vlf.it/

Eric

--- Original Message ---
From: "John Andrews" <w1tag@charter.net>
To: <lowfer@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] VLF

>Eric,
>
>> Reading on the message board about receiving GBR, 
etc.  What kind of
>> equipment were you guys using for this and other 
signals below 30 kc?
>
>Dogs. Clip a long wire onto their tail, and adjust 
the ears for perfect
>reception. Dogs with long floppy ears are preferred 
for ease of adjustment.
>Back in the '60s you could get them to bark in Morse 
code. Now they just
>tweedle. Poodles are useless because they have RF 
chokes in their tails.
>
>Lacking a canine radio, the three most popular 
approaches are:
>
>1. Boat anchor receivers that tune down there.
>
>2. LF converters used with HF receivers (that's what 
I use -- the converter
>is hombrew).
>
>3. Graft an antenna onto a sound card input and use 
something in software to
>visually or aurally tune in the signal.
>
>John Andrews
>
>
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Eric Vogel