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

[Ed Phillips]

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?"

    There have been a number of magazine articles on "1750 meter" 
beacons going back at least as far as one in QST in the mid-1960's.

Ed