[Lowfer] Lowfer transceiver by Dave Curry

[PAUL DAULTON]

In the ARRL search there was an article by Steve Ford(qst editor) in the
 late 70's or early80's
listing many cw beacons. He said there were some 200 lowfer experimenters.
  Lyle Kohler had
audio bites of cw beacons up to 800 miles on his site. My hats off to
 those guys who made contacts
with earphones before we had ARGO, Spectran and other stuff.
Maybe we all need to write Steve Ford and campaign for more mention in
 QST. Interest in 600, 1750, and 2200
meters is contagous. I get a lot of inquirys on 75 meters . this is one of
 the last frontiers, much easier technically
than microwaves.
I've only had DSL for 4 months, so I have been playing catchup on the
 history of lowfer experimentation. Really
enjoyed thread last summer when some of the guys here wrote about their
 early experiences. Compared to other
projects, I've had more bang for the buck on the lowfer operation than
 other things I've tried.
73 Paul k5wms
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike-WE0H <we0h at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:43:57 -0600
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands"
 <lowfer at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Lowfer transceiver by Dave Curry
 
 
Running good Lowfer antennas & power will get you daytime coverage about  
150-200 miles with audible CW. I don't know about SSB or other modes.  
Night time of course will go further but how far?  
 
The west coast guys talked about their SSB round tables they had  
scheduled out. Surely if enough Lowfer guys got moving on building SSB  
rigs or transverter's, that SSB could work out for at least regional
 QSO's.  
 
Mike  
WE0H  
 
 
 
PAUL wrote:  
>  
> I did a site search on www.arrl.org <http://www.arrl.org> for  
> "lowfer" and came up with and article by  
>  
> Dave Curry in April 1994 QST about a cw tranceiver.Members can  
> download this.  
>  
>  
>  
> In Aug 1982 QEX there is an article about a transverter for 1750  
> meters. My friend Dave w5dsb is  
>  
> looking for that cd. Maybe some of you have that c/d.  
>  
>  
>  
> I have an unfinished Bitx board from FAR circuits. I built it with  
> 9.0mhz if. I am going to try it out  
>  
> with a Nocal DDS and a lowpass front end to see how well it performs.  
> If it works I may order an  
>  
> epson programmable osc for the master osc( apx 9.1845) Cheap way to do  
> SSB, psk, wolf and other  
>  
> modes. Google Bitx-20 or go to link on FAR circuits web site. I  
> believe lowfer freq would be very  
>  
> practical for local communications.  
>  
>  
>  
> Paul k5wms  
>  
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