[Lowfer] A knight at the Opera

Fri Dec 6 17:18:25 EST 2013

Yes - you could really get a nice swing to that message. TREE was a great ending, and it was very rare that no one hearing that "test message" didn' answer with a couple of dits. I was 2-1/2 years at 78 North - all CW networks to Army Signal Corps stations in the South. Best winter was -63 F.
Just remember the good stuff now.
73
Mitch. " M P ". 137780.5

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
From: Robert Rode
Sent: Friday, December 6, 2013 5:03 PM
To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp, UK) and MedFer bands
Reply To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &amp; UK) and MedFer bands
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] A knight at the Opera

...WOW, Mitch,...I have been to two worlds' fairs, and a goat love in, but
never knew about "bens best bent wire" !!    kinda like "rubber baby buggy
bumpers"  heh  heh , thanks, gonna oil up the old bug, and try it !      I
wonder just how many Hams actually know there is a picture of a ROACH on
every vibro plex !?   thus  "BUG"   my .02 cents...73 de W9ESX...

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Mitch Powell <mitch.powell at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Robert:
> Try your Vibroplex with BEST BENT WIRE TREE and really swing it.
> Used to use this in the mid/late 50s with the Russian station over the
> Pole....during the cold war and they  couldn't work us. But they always
> answered this with 2 dots., so we all knew they were there.
> This was before electronic keyers - and we lost all the individuality.
> QTH  78N 103W..... how's that for a quiet spot ?
>
> Also - you might check out the LWCA site   http://www.lwca.org  for lots
> of good stuff.
>
> 73
> Mitch VE3OT   ex VE8WN/VE8MD
>
> On 2013-12-06, at 9:56 AM, Robert Rode wrote:
>
> > ...P.S.,   There is just one guy around here on Lowfer freqs., I dont
> know
> > him well, but he speaks of digital modes like Wolf, etc., and qrss
> > stuff,.guess it is neccessary,   Wonder if you are "up" on lowfer freqs?
>  I
> > made a few things from original yellow book to rx, I was good at finding
> > ndb stuff, but then thats easy,..can u tell me in 100 words or less what
> > you are doing ?  on 187kc/ etc.,  Hope Im not pestering you,  thanks
> again,
> >  W9ESX
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Robert Rode <midnitetoaker58 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> ...Jay,...dont ya just love it ? makes me grin even when I hear a Cuban
> >> station on 40 meters, I know who he is before he says so,..used to be 4
> >> guys on 40 after midnite, that I "knew" like that,....Matter of fact, I
> >> always drag out my "dahs" a bit....one or two guys know me like
> >> that,..Never could get the hang of automatic keyers, My trusty old Vibro
> >> plex is just plain,  "ME"     I think maybe I was re-incarnated, used to
> >> love listening to shore station WCC and fall asleep on the couch,
> listening
> >> to world news and wall street info,......see ya,   de W9ESX   73
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:21 AM, <jrusgrove at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Slurred Cw
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Yes ... and the famous 'banana boat swing' ... LZ and CO stations with
> >>> their 'patented' buzzy note ... chirpy stations out of UA, familiar
> >>> fading/QSB patterns etc. Was a great time to be a cw op ... could
> almost
> >>> 'divine' the stations country/location before he sent the call sign!
> Most
> >>> cw signals these days are perfect with little to distinguish one from
> >>> another.
> >>>
> >>> Jay W1VD
> >>>
> >>>
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