[Lowfer] 13 year LDE?

[Zack Widup]

Thanks John. I didn't get interested in Lowfer operation till maybe 5 or 6
years ago, so I guess I missed out on that. :-)

73, Zack W9SZ


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:58 AM, <w1tag at charter.net> wrote:

> Zack,
>
> Dex is referring to a particularly ugly period of Lowfer history. I
> suppose these things need to be brought up from time to time, lest we
> revert to the behavior of those primitive days.
>
> In 2001, somewhere around the 185.300 Lowfer watering hole, a triangular
> waveform signal began appearing on a regular basis. Nobody seemed to have
> any idea where it was coming from, or who was responsible. There just
> weren't enough of us to properly DF it. The signal had the appearance of a
> shark's dorsal fin, so it was quickly dubbed "Jaws." Some of us were pretty
> convinced that we knew who was responsible, but we had no luck in getting
> the guy to confess his transgressions. It wasn't until I captured the
> signal one night, and noticed that there was a repeating pattern of Morse
> "N" and "C" on the sloping lines. See:
> http://www.w1tag.com/pix/NC-JAWS.jpg
>
> I'll leave it to you to figure out which active Lowfer at the time was
> living in NC, and using that as a callsign. Such a waste of those
> microwatts of ERP...
>
> John, W1TAG
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
>
>  What is it?
>>
>> 73, Zack W9SZ
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Dexter McIntyre W4DEX
>> <dexter.mc at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>  w4dex.com/grabber
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