[Lowfer] Getting on Part 15

[Peter Cranwell]

My first rig was a Ford spark coil and a buzzer back in 1956.  My friend 
KN2QFT and I would communicate about a city block using the low end of the 
brroadcast band at 500 KHZ (before I got licensed as KN2RBV).  We hung Army 
field phone wire on the phone poles, only to have it removed by the phone 
company once a month.  As we lived in Union City NJ we had access to a 
military electronics surplus store (Red Arrow Electronics).  We could get 
all the wire we wanted.  We were also a Saturday Mornings trip to Cortland 
and Canal streets (Military surplus heaven)  in NYC before they built the 
World Trade buildings.

Then after I finished High School and did a stint in the US Navy, got 
married, I moved to Westfield NJ in 1965 , about 1/2 mile from W2IMB and get 
into LOWFER expermimentation on 189.5.   Back then it was all vacuum tube, 
except for the receivers and receiving converters.  The MPF102 was just 
available and we used it for a lot of the new solid state designs.

My first receiver was an ARC-5 to which I added a down converter, a 100KHZ 
second IF, a crystal crystal filter and a 4 pole audio filter made from 88 
Mhy toroids.  It could pick fly dirt out of pepper.

Ken ran "K" as a beacon, I ran "P".  The beacon was made from a circular PC 
board with the letters etched into thecircuit, rotated by a phonograph motor 
and IBM wire relay contacts to act as cats whiskers.

My only remaining pictures are in my memory.  Like an old beagle, eyes 
closed, lying in front of the fire, dreaming about the early days when I 
could chase rabbits, I reply the scenes on the insides of my eyelids with my 
minds projector.

Cheers

Pete

WA2EIN

I'll get a beacon on 189 as the winter approaches from these mountains of 
Virginia.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" 
<lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Getting on Part 15


> My first rig was newer, solid state, 400 Hz AM modulation, noisey, it was
> square wave, built from an old single channel remote control.  I have many
> boxes of the little transmitters, could rebuilt it, maybe use a 555 to
> control on-off keying rather than a dedicated MP sending "X", still have 
> one
> MP1312 in an electronics kit, would like to find more so I don't loose the
> last one in it's original intent, a Science Fair Microcomputer Trainer 
> from
> 1984.
>
> Kurt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles W5COV" <cvest at cox.net>
>
> : I had my old tube version one until a few years back. If I remember
> : correctly it used a 6BZ6 .
>
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