[Lowfer] A History of MedFers

[lmlangenfeld at tds.net]

Somewhere in my "archives" I have a nice little QSL from a MedFer then active (ca. late 1980s, if I remember correctly) in the St. Louis area.  He had reliably good sigs into S. Wisconsin, and there were persistent (unconfirmed) rumors that was the result of a somewhat QRO operation. If I can readily locate that card, I'll scan and post it in a follow-up email.

At one time, there were many Part 15 stations on the air at about 1610 kHz. especially during the period when realtors used a variety of commercially marketed transmitters to broadcast looped property descriptions which drive-by lookers could tune in one their car radios.

I used to do a lot of weak-signal work on 6m from my old QTH, and had hoped to DX some 49 mHz beacons.  For whatever reason, that whole notion never seemed to gain traction.  I would be surprised if more than a very small handful were ever put on the air -- I never heard even one.

Mark -- WA9ETW

----- Original Message -----
From: "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 1, 2016 8:35:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] A History of MedFers

: More importantly, are any MedFer beacons still active today?

A couple shown here:

http://www.lwca.org/sitepage/part15/mfmain.htm

I've had boxes of parts for a VFER at 49 MHz for years, but never put 
anything together.

Kurt 

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