[Lowfer] VLF

[Dale Rice]

There may be other methods,



"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
--Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio.



>
> 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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