[Lowfer] Publicity and new blood

[Paul Daulton]

There is one magazine I have seen on the racks at Hasting's maybe it is 
Monitoring Times or something like that for swl and scanner addicts. 

True about appliance ops. My county has something like 2000 hams , 
havent checked state numbers in a while. We have, although inactive, an 
ATV repeater. Most we had on the air was 7 stations and only one ham 
bothered to hook his cable ready tv to a 440 ant and see the signal. 
I've had a lot of inquires about the lowfer beacon, so far only two in 
the state have bothered to copy it. 

The rule of thumb for construction articles is that about 100 units 
will be built for each construction article. The exception being some 
very popular articles like the "Neophyte reciever". If nation wide we 
could pick up 100 people interested in LF I think that would be a real 
boom. Only way to accomplish that kind of growth is by an article in 
QST or CQ. 

I still believe part 15 would be a fun local medium for cw and psk. But 
doing it by oneself is like trying to clap with one hand. I also think 
an increase in part 15 activity would boost our chances of getting 
alocations on 137. 

Quoting Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj at gmail.com>:
> Paul,
>
>     Communications Quarterly went out of business in 2000 and was
> merged into QEX. There have been several LF/MF articles in QEX over
> recent years. 
>      Peter Dodd G3LDO wrote the "LF Experimenter's Handbook" published
> by RSGB and available from the ARRL, there is also "LF Today
> a guide to success on 136 and 500kHz" 2nd Edition by Mike Dennison,
> G3XDV and Jim Moritz , M0BMU also available from ARRL. 
>
>    The problem is not due to a lack of publicity or books, its mostly
> the nature of ham radio which has become a hobby of appliance
> operators. 
>
> -- 73 Warren K2ORS
>                 WD2XGJ
>                 WD2XSH/23
>                 WE2XEB/2
>                 WE2XGR/1
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Paul Daulton <k5wms at centurytel.net> wrote:
> > I became aware of the part 15 lowfer activity back in Dec 1971 by way of an
> article in Popular Electronics. 
> > Last article I can find in a major publication about part15 operation is an
> excellent article by Steve Ford in QST back in 1994. I think it is time to
> recruit some new blood . Only way to do that is publicity. We can start by
> emailing Steve Ford at QST and update him on what we are doing now. 
> Perhaps CQ
> and Communications quarterly would be interested. 
> >
> > QST has a very long lead time on articles, CQ I dont know but I think it is
> less than six months. 73 could publish in less than 4 months but 
> thats gone now. 
> Mfj publishes a lot of special interest books like Pivinichys book on xtal
> filters and Drew Diamonds "QRP projects from downunder". May be we could
> assemble a lowfer handbook from internet articles. I have the RSGB low freq
> handbook but that is all about 137khz. 
> >
> > I only have limited experience with publication( two articles in 73) so I
> would like to hear from Jay and other who have more insight. 
> >
> > Off topic but mondays local paper the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had 
> an article
> about the government
> > granting power companies the ok to install digital power meters and 
> send the
> data over power lines. 
> > I wonder if this has any bearing on the FCC reluctance to allow 137 
> alocations
> in this country. The gov is pouring in money to "update the nations 
> power grid"
> according to the article. I could use some stimulus money myself. 
> > Paul Daulton K5WMS
> > beacon WMS 187.492 khz qrss30/slow 24/7
> > Jacksonville,Ar 72076
> > em34wu
>

Paul Daulton K5WMS
beacon WMS 187.492 khz qrss30/slow 24/7
Jacksonville,Ar 72076
em34wu