[Lowfer] 13 year LDE?

[w1tag at charter.net]

Eric,

Would be nice to see your signal again. Go for it!

John, W1TAG


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Believe it or not, after my long period being off, I'm working to get
> UWL back on .. seems like I was usually around 185300.2 or 185302 back
> then.  We'll see where the oscillator falls in this time ..
>
> Eric KD5UWL
>
>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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