[Lowfer] LowFER Grabber and Converter

[Ed Phillips]

No one seems to have mentioned a guyed tower using TV push-up towers or 
mast extensions [I assume they're still available].  With a little help 
it's easy to get up 30 feet or so.  You need an excellent insulator at 
the base and guys have successfully used glass bottles although that 
could be ifffy.  The antenna is always the hardest part of any LF 
station and the loading coil comes next. True for 'commercial' guys 
too.  Watts' "LF Radio Engineering' states somewhere that at least half 
of the total cost of a serious LF or VLF [down to 10 kHz] is in the 
antenna and loading coil.  I've gotten several guys on the air in the 
old days with 'push-up' TV masts  and home wound loading coils.  Ground 
wires run to water pipes aren't ideal but they're easy and a quick way 
of getting going.

Ed


On 9/18/2012 11:15 AM, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> "It would be wonderful to have at least one beacon from each state."
>
> I have a kit I bought form a fellow a few years ago.  I can make the time,
> money and space aren't the problem, building a decent antenna for LowFER,
> THAT'S my problem...  I don't have equipment to test it, and wouldn't know
> how to model it.
>
> Kurt, Nevada
>
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