[Lowfer] WE2XGR/6 spark transmission tonight

[ED]

Missed the actual transmission but have the received audio saved 
somewhere.  Description of signal is very accurate and I remember 
reading in a very old 'radio book' that one way to simulate a spark 
signal was to connect the headphones to a buzzer circuit running off the 
AC power lines.  Obviously there much higher pitched notes.  Right now 
the Tesla Coil nuts are building rotary gaps capable of handling as much 
as 20 kW and I've always thought it would be interesting to enroll some 
people in a special 'spark night', getting on the air with real signals 
starting maybe 3:00 Sunday morning for a short while.  Almost no one to 
interfere with and those who were jammed wouldn't know what was happening.

My experience with spark transmission, ca 1940, was very crude.  A 
couple of us about 3 miles apart had small neon sign transformers with a 
spark directly across the transformer and antenna connected directly to 
one end.  We'd never heard of tuning at the time but could hear each 
others very ratty sounding signals on the folks' BC receiver. 

riese-k3djc at juno.com wrote:

>        Back,, I guess it was 2003 ?? a Canadian put a spark rig on 75
>for the 100 year celebration
> of the transatlantic test
>and cdx were good that night. Someone had a signal on that was using  ??
>A3
>mode and it sounded very good and everyone was trying to work him
>I made wave files of that and later realized it was false,,But when I
>replayed the
>files  I heard the actual spark signal
>and coped A R Y on a QSB peak,,,, which sounded exactly like power line
>noise
>I believe the guy was heard out 500 miles or so
>he got away with it 
>somewhere I have pictures of his rig and a recording of the partial copy
>I hear John but not loud enough to copy it other than CW,, not loud enuf
>to hear
>any odd sound to the signal
>tune er up direct
>
>HAR
>
>Bob K3DJC
>
>On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:33:11 -0400 John Bruce McCreath
><weazle at hurontel.on.ca> writes:
>  
>
>>Jay,
>>
>>Is that a pair of Model T spark coils in the upper right of the 
>>pix?
>>Somewhere in my stash I've got one that my dad used decades
>>ago to transmit across the village to his brother-in-law.
>>
>>73, J.B., VE3EAR
>>
>>LowFER Beacon "EAR"
>>188.830 kHz. QRSS30
>>EN93dr
>>
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