[Lowfer] Lowfer TAG?

[Douglas Williams]

Indeed. I'm working on my LF spark gap transmitter as I type this. ;-)

Just kidding, JD. You make a good point. I remember when I first started
trying to copy lowfers in the late 1980s, sitting up until the wee hours on
cold winter nights with headphones on, trying to make out the very faint CW
signals of WI, TH, or 9HDQ. QRSS and ARGO was a game changer, and still
works very, very well.

No excuse me while I go tune my magnetic loop and straighten my e-probe. ;-)

73 de KB4OER

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 5:37 AM J D <listread at lwca.org> wrote:

> On 10/20/2020 8:47 PM, Garry wrote:
> > I especially enjoyed when TAG sent WOLF. That required very good
> > receiver stability but had impressive sensitivity
>
> I, too, look forward to the chance of maybe seeing WOLF again. To put
> frequency stability in perspective, though, we should remember that WOLF
> was considered a very demanding mode IN ITS DAY--but by today's
> standards, it's not that difficult to do. Some of the longer-format
> "advanced" digimodes require at least as tight stability, if not more.
>
> A setup that does well with "old timey" QRSS60 is adequate for WOLF.
> Heck, last time I copied TAG in WOLF, it was with my non-ovenized R-5000
> #3 ("Old Drifty") and a cheap Acer notebook with minimal sound card in
> an unheated barn.
>
> Not every aspect of radio has to be latest-greatest-trendiest
> hardware-plus-software-intensive supergenius-appliance-operator modes.
> The basics are still a lot of fun, and I'd argue there needs to be a
> place where they can be pursued expeditiously and inexpensively, in the
> traditional LowFER way.
>
>