[Lowfer] Lowfer JH

[Dexter McIntyre W4DEX]

jrusgrove at comcast.net wrote:
> At 79 miles that's not much of a signal ... any idea what the transmitting setup is? Assume your 
> receiveing setup is up to snuff ...
>
>   
Jay,

I don't know the details about his beacon.  I think John is on the list 
so perhaps he will tell us.  The receive antenna presently in use here 
is the back woods random length vertical wire thrown over tree limbs.  I 
haven't seen it since last winter so don't know it's condition.  Since I 
was seeing some signal from TAG a few weeks back the wire must still be 
up.   I'm surprised the coax laying on the ground hasn't been cut by 
squirrels.  I've had that to happen before with RG-58.  The cuts were 
very clean and at first I thought they were made with diagonal cutters 
and were intentional.   Then one day I saw one of the culprits in 
action.  The coax connecting the back woods antenna is 75 ohm double 
braided shield slightly less in diameter than RG-11.  It was made by 
Western Electric for temporarily restoring around cuts on underground 
coaxial cables.  But I'm sure it isn't squirrel resistant.

Dex