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

[Zack Widup]

Back in the late 60's I stumbled across a couple 186 kHz crystals at a 
hamfest.  I threw together a couple low-power transmitters with them and 
gave one to a ham across town so we could have QSO's on that band. I built 
a couple up-converters so we could listen with our 80-m receivers on 3686 
kHz.

So people were doing things on LOWFer frequencies long before internet!

73, Zack W9SZ


On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Ed Phillips wrote:

> 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
>
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