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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 02:08 PM 9/3/2008, you wrote:
>Charlie,
>
>>   Does HI have a web site ?
>
>Ronnie doesn't even own a typewriter, let alone a computer! Any 
>QSL's you get from him will be handwritten in pencil on scrap paper. 
>Sal, K1RGO, visited him recently, and posted this on the LWCA Message Board:
>
>"For an update on medfer HI : I had an eyeball with Ronnie when I 
>dropped by his QTH after a bit of hiking at Webb Mountain. I got the 
>tour, it was like a time warp. He is running all tubes on both the 
>Hifer and Medfer rigs. The latest Medfer rig runs 2 Xtals with a 
>6BE6 mixer(if any of you can recall that good old tube)with a output 
>frequency of 513.5 KHz. The IDer is a motor driven aluminum wheel 
>with pegs. Ronnie has no land line, cell or computer, only snail 
>mail. His mailbox is decorated with high voltage insulators so it's 
>easy to find his "shack". ........Sal"
>
>JA

So if he's not on the internet then what got him into setting up his 
stations? Maybe a few magazine articles I'm not aware of. Goes he get 
reception reports?