[Lowfer] More MP

[Mitch Powell]

Mike:
Sorry for delay - just getting back to teaching and trying to do too much,
too late in evenings, and have let email lapse.
The work that Bill was doing was indeed on 185.3.   Using very simple
transmitter - NPN/PNP 2N3904/3906 at the beginning.  Carefully controlled
power at 1 watt DC input.   Came through every month of the year with the
50ft x 50ft loop. Amazing amount of work on Bill's part - with lots of
documentation - and a real "Elmer" to all the newbies.
Will try to shut down occasionally and list for the "new" WM.
Good luck
73  Mitch

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 12:54 PM, N8OOU <n8oou at meekfarm.us> wrote:

> Mitch, A question regarding copying Bill - WM. What band/frequency were
> you receiving him on?   I can assume 185.3, but would like to know for
> sure.  I believe he did some loop experiments on MF also.
>
> I am working to get WM Lowfer back on for the season, my current
> installation has presented some "infantile" failures so it's off at the
> moment.
>
> 73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek
>
>
> On 09/04/2015 11:19 AM, Mitch Powell wrote:
>
>> Thanks for details John. Nice to get the reports and nice to now all is
>> radiating.  My Hifer is still operating - but getting no reports - so
>> better check for rabbit and squirrels chomping on the coax. Keying okay
>> and
>> no changes in frequency.
>> It would be interesting to watch over a 24 hour cycle - everything quite
>> stable here.
>>
>> Still remember copying Bill ( WM ) over the entire 12 month period when he
>> was doing initial "Ashlock" loop experiments with the 1 watt.
>>
>> 73
>> Mitch
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 2:49 PM, JD <listread at lwca.org> wrote:
>>
>> First of all...oops!  Yesterday's message should have been "Wednesday
>>> afternoon MP," not Tuesday.  Keeping up with the FCC IT shenanigans got
>>> me
>>> a
>>> day out of sync with the calendar.
>>>
>>> I won't have a lot of time on the farm today, either, but I did get a
>>> couple
>>> hours' earlier start, with MP coming in just fine shortly after 11 AM
>>> CDT.
>>> That's at least an hour before solar noon in London, ON, it's just past
>>> solar noon here, and I'll continue for a while on the other side of that
>>> as
>>> well.  MP was good and solid this morning, both on 60 secondand 30 second
>>> Slow settings.  The trace even showed at QRSS3, though not good enough
>>> for
>>> communication.  Noise was averaging S4, but taking the distribution of
>>> peaks
>>> to minima into account, the median value would have been below S3. That's
>>> usually enough for excellent decodes.  Really need to find a good (ie,
>>> electrically quiet) way to power the computer so I don't have to recharge
>>> it
>>> every three hours.  Then I could do what I've really been wanting to do
>>> for
>>> a long time and follow the signal over the full 24 hour cycle.
>>>
>>> Checked HiFERs briefly before turning to LF, with strong signals (audible
>>> as
>>> well as visible) from NC and recognizable traces of EH.  Nobody else
>>> visible
>>> or audible elsewhere at that time except for an outlaw sending long
>>> dashes
>>> and random bits of code around 13,562 for a while.  A little later,
>>> around
>>> 13,555.8, I was surprised to hear WV for the first time in a few years.
>>> Michael recently updated his listing, and sure enough, there he
>>> was...nice
>>> clear CW a little over half the time, and deep fades in between.  Lots of
>>> CODAR, but considering the direction where the only HiFERs were coming
>>> from,
>>> I have to assume it was all in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast region.
>>>
>>> John
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