[Lowfer] Re: Oh, CRAP! or - " "HI, " the beacon heard 'round the world"

[Tom Norris]

One of the easiest signals to monitor in that band is "HI" somewhere  
up east - it's at the upper edge of the band.  (I forgot his exact freq)

A couple years ago I wrote the fellow about what he was using for a  
transmitter.  He sent me a schematic and six months later sent me a  
hand built unit similar to what he's now using.  He stamped small  
brass plates for all the controls, looks nice.  He also supplied a  
homebrew tuner and homebrew clockwork ID'r.  All the chassis were  
made from scratch and looked as well made as any you could buy.  Heck  
of a builder, but he's not a ham, says he's never really been  
interested in it.  Something about decades at Motorola made him ill  
at the sight of a radio or something like that.  His name is Mr  
Graham, very nice fellow.

He says his transmitter output is to spec, and his antenna is just a  
solid state "old motorola lowband whip" on top of a metal carport  
roof.... but many folks have been able to copy his station even when  
20 meters is dead.

Tom NU4G



On Sep 1, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Dexter McIntyre W4DEX wrote:

> Ed Phillips wrote:
>> Roger.  Hadn't heard it before but don't usually tune up that far.
>>
> Just a short while after I put the first HiFer beacon on the air in  
> May of 2001 both Lyle and I monitored several SSB conversation on  
> 13.5xxx MHz.  The conversation was obviously two operators who had  
> discovered a new freeband to operate on.  I've heard several other  
> conversations in the band since then.
>
> Dex
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