[Lowfer] Bill Ashlock follow-up

[K2ORS]

Jay, Kurt,

    Thanks for the info!

73 Warren


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> Warren
>
> WM does not appear to be on the air at the moment.
>
> Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2
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> From: "K2ORS" <k2ors at verizon.net>
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands" 
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> 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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