[Lowfer] LowFER Grabber and Converter

[cvest at cox.net]

I know how hard you have tried Jim  and am amazed that you don't have one of the more successful beacons .

Mine is just thrown together for especially the antenna . It is a single piece of stranded #14 nickel plated wire 42 foot long and
a wire 5 foot diameter top hat . The antenna runs right into the shack to the transmitter so it even has 4 or 5 foot of a horizontal
run to it . 

I have a crossarm made of large PVC run through the tower at the 50 foot level and pulleys installed on it and it runs about
5 or 6 foot away from the tower . I just use a rope to raise or lower my lowfer wire . My ground consists of 3 eight foot ground
rods .

My beacon regularly is copied from 1000 to 1500 during the season and there was a station in Colorado that could also copy it
at high noon . (I am in northeast Oklahoma )

Lots of guys that still build and experiment on these frequencies .

Charlie , W5COV


---- Jim McClanahan <w4jbm at bellsouth.net> wrote: 
> I see everyone say how easy it is and it gives me an inferiority complex... :-)
> 
> I had DIR on the air for a season and didn't get any reception reports. I spent 
> a fair amount of time and tinkering trying to get the antenna to work, but 
> ultimatley it just didn't seem to do the job. I still have the oscillator, 
> keyer, and the transmitter. The antenna has slowly fallen to bits over time and 
> I took the last of it down last spring.
> 
> These days my job keeps in out of town for extended periods so I haven't had a 
> chance to give it another try. But I would like to get it back on the air at 
> some point...
>  73 de
> Jim W4JBM 
> 
> http://www.hamuniverse.com/w4jbm/
> 
> "With a soldering iron in one hand, a schematic in the other, and a puzzled look 
> on his face..." 
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