[Lowfer] 13 year LDE?

Dexter McIntyre W4DEX dexter.mc at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 16:24:04 EST 2014


Thanks John!  I was counting on a very entertaining, informative reply 
from you :)

Since Garry is also seeing this jaws impostor lets consider it a fox and 
go hunting on 186.107 kHz.

Dex

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
>
>



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