[Milsurplus] VLF Riggs

[Hue Miller]

Has no one on the West Coast USA ever reported reception of SAQ ?
I thought VLF operations were sort of world-wide range, regardless of
season and without the propagation variations of HF ?

>  But I used to copy NSS, NBA and 
> I think NPG with it.
> Robert Downs - Houston

Ah yes - them were the good olde days. Copying NSS, NAA, NPM, and 
NPG/ NLK  ( Jim Creek, Arlington WA keyed by NPG SF-CA ) on
a single triode receiver, inspired by a QST article. Perfect CW,
at about 20WPM, excellent CW practice.  I even had a QSL from
NPM, thanking me for my "valuable reception report", ha ha.
( i noticed when i lived in WA about 15 years ago, that a FSVM voltmeter
tuned across the VLF band, the level meter's pointer went way up when
tuned across NLK's frequency. I also "think" but not absolutely certain
that you could hear the TTY sound in the background on some phone
lines on the Olympic Peninsula, and even occasionally on the car radio,
at certain locations and at certain points on the dial. This of course after
CW went away. -Hue Miller 

-Hue Miller