[Lowfer] Bill Ashlock follow-up

[jrusgrove at comcast.net]

Warren

WM does not appear to be on the air at the moment.

Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K2ORS" <k2ors at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:12 PM
Subject: [Lowfer] Bill Ashlock follow-up


>I had an e-mail from Bill Ashlock's wife Joan today. She is interested in 
> sharing Bill's notes with the Lowfer community. I think a web site would be 
> the best venue for that.
> Also, she is interested in keeping "WM" running!
> I plan on going up to the Ellsworth site to see if I can move WM over from 
> the vertical to the loop as it would be a more stable configuration.
> 
> Some Questions:
> 1) Does anyone know if WM is currently on?
> I have an extremely high noise level (the electric utility is on the case!)
> 
> 2) Is anyone familiar with how Bill did the WM ? I believe that he used a 
> varactor diode across a crystal and used a varying voltage (capacitor 
> discharged with a resistor?)
> I'm pretty vague on the specifics but I recall that sometimes the 
> 'modulator' would lock up and all he put out was a constant carrier.
> 
> 73 & Tnx
> 
> Warren K2ORS
> 
> 
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