[Lowfer] intersting old QSL card

[Lewis Denton]

Hi Ed,
Enjoyed the post,
brought back old times, I spent a lot of time listening on a BC-453 my self
.
Had the whole line and the rack they mounted on.
Also the BC- 348, 342 along with ANARC 13, used to love to hear that thing
load up, with all that clacky clack.
I used it on 40 mtrs and Army Mars.
also had the BC 122, (I believe) the VHF receivor along with the 6 ft. rack
mounted Xmiter.
with the 832 tubes.even had a pair of the 80 mtrs. Walkie Talkies.
(working).
Lewis  ( Wa4Lip)

PS:  Back in the 50's I worked on the Aircraft that used that Equipment.
C-97, C-54, C-124 and even had some of the RB-50 Recon. planes. full of
Cameras.that was the next generation of the B-29
Lewis
> I first got the interest to build a lowfer beacon after someone from
> SRI (?) spoke to our Hughes radio club about his experiences running
> really low frequency (as low as 8 kHz) transmitters in Antarctica during
> an expedition in the early 1970's.  He showed pictures of balloon-borne
> antennas and the loading coil they used and, as a side thought,
> mentioned that there were some guys playing around with beacons in the
> 160-190 kHz region.  A couple of years later (1976) I was stuck at home
> for a few weeks with a broken ankle and took the time to build a
> transmitter and keyer.  I had already converted a BC-453 to tune from
> 160 to 260 kHz and had heard a local beacon.  Tony, OVK/W6OVK in Long
> Beach, used to call CQ every day at noon.  When I finally got a
> transmitter going and answered him he went silent for several minutes
> and then came back explaining he'd been calling CQ for several years and
> this was his first reply.  Such single mindedness or stubborness or
> whatever.  Anyhow, over the next year or so we had a lot of QSO's on CW
> and, after I built a transverter, SSB and AM from my end, CW from his.
> Distance was only about 30 miles so signals were plenty good.
>
> Ed
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