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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 01:02 AM 9/4/2008, you wrote:

>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

Do you remember the power level of that transmitter & what kind of 
antenna you used? What tubes did you use?


>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