[Lowfer] EAR, MLS, TH

[Michael Sapp]

Mike A3O, what was the other lowfer on the air out east of Pittsburgh around 
Irwin or east of Monroeville ?

Mike tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MIke mustang via Lowfer" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
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Cc: "MIke mustang" <mikeymustang2000 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] EAR, MLS, TH


>I remember one Lowfer with the call A3O with a water cooled RF coil so he 
>wouldn't burn his house down....*wink*
> Mike WA3O
>
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>  On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 2:03 PM, ve3ot.mp at gmail.com<ve3ot.mp at gmail.com> 
> wrote:   Nice to hear those callsigns again. Worked QYV and GIR regularly. 
> In fact used the rig designed by them to work th first VE QSO with VA3 LK. 
> The circuit is still shown on Steve VE7 SL's website. Single FET output. 
> Both of them were doing intersting (and exploding) experiments and I spent 
> many an hour monitoring them. Great pair of LF experimenters.
> Mitch
>
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> Original Message
> From: Michael Sapp
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 11:49 AM
> To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands
> Reply To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] EAR, MLS, TH
>
> John: Thank you for your insights on TH et al. Yes I recall the late 1980s
> and a few local lowfers around Pittsburgh were QYV (sk) and GIR, A few
> others I dont seem to recall. At the time my local radio club had a 
> Kenwood
> TS-440 and TS-430, I think the TS-430 had better LF sensitivity. It had a
> discrete component double balanced mixer and no preamp. I kind of miss 
> that
> radio although I recall it had some known maintenance issues although not
> overwhelming....
>
> 73 Mike tts
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Andrews" <w1tag at charter.net>
> To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands"
> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] EAR, MLS, TH
>
>
>> While writing that last message, I had occasion to pull an old Lowfer
>> beacon list off the bulletin board in the shack. It was dated 12/30/2000,
>> and there were 70 U.S./CA Lowfer beacons listed! Tough to know how many
>> were actually on the air. CW was the most common, with QRSS and BPSK on
>> some. I'm sure the total was higher back in the '80s when that activity
>> (all CW) peaked.
>>
>> John, W1TAG
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