[Milsurplus] Horizontal loop on German vehicles

[KD7JYK DM09]

> 563,519,657 Mc a little higher than 12, hoping to reach ~758 THz in the 
> next few months with a 15W setup, just waiting for the right atmospheric 
> conditions, and safety equipment, as it tends to destroy biological 
> material, as well as incinerate the atmosphere)

Just a quick follow-up, not much info yet, as this is literally 
no-sane-mans land...

Recently received a 15W 758 THz (758 Million MHz) source, and bandpass 
filter.  Bloody insane piece of equipment, I recommend nobody play with 
such things.  To protect those far more foolish than I, I've mentioned 
the general specs, but not the item, or source.  Such things are like 
handing a pissed-off psychotic monkey a hand grenade.

With proper safety equipment, I ran some initial tests, the results 
varied from ambiguous, to alarming, and truly disturbing.  More on that 
later.

Out of curiosity, again with adequate safety equipment, I removed the 
bandpass filter, and exposed the source.  As mentioned earlier, the 
device incinerates the atmosphere surrounding it.  Until I had done it 
myself, it was mostly speculation on my part, based on a comments from 
someone else who knew more, and a not entirely understood observation 
several years ago.  The smell of destroyed "air" is disgusting.  Imagine 
filthy skivvies, and stiff, well used, dirty wet socks, baking in an 
oven.  Maybe toss in some pit scum for good measure.  Yeah, get a solid 
whiff of that steaming funk right up the nose, and all I did was quickly 
wave the area in front of the emitter my way...  It's been about a week, 
the stench still haunts me.

A couple of very brief tests this morning to determine generation, 
output, detection, and downconverting.  Output, check, it puts out. 
Generates some heat in the process.  63 degrees in the shop, noted some 
warmth, the area ~1" from the emitter hit 209 degrees in 15 seconds. 
Gonna have to keep an eye on that.  Detection, that was a theory that 
panned out, so no problem there.  I could probably quantify the 
efficiency, but something detected is good enough, and the results were 
overwhelming.  Downconverting, no problem, I was able to shift the 
frequency several million MHz where it's far easier to work with.

Tonight was just to test some theories.  Can I put out energy at 758 
THz, can I detect it easily, with no specialized equipment (special is 
relative), my detector/downconvertor idea worked flawlessly...

Now to do some long-range tests with the detector/downconvertor.  If 
that goes well, then wait for adequate atmospheric conditions to permit 
NVIS propagation at 758 THz (758 Mega-MHz).  Those conditions are just 
speculation, but research suggests I'm on the right path.

This all came to be due to comments long before the post here about NVIS.

It actually goes back to the late 90's, when I first heard people 
mention "NVIS only works to" certain frequencies (usually mid-HF), and 
that was based on severely limited knowledge of limited equipment, what 
creates, and permits NVIS, and considering by far, the most destructive 
publication on the matter, FM-2418, to be "the bible".

The books, and pamphlets are nice, but for anyone who can think to 
step-two, none of it makes any sense, hence my pushing of the limits. 
Unlike the DoD observations in the 60's revealing legitimate atmospheric 
NVIS to ~260 MHz under atypical conditions, and my man-made examples 
higher than that, relying on purposely set up operating conditions, in 
truly iconoclastic fashion, I've chosen the highest frequency easily 
attainable, and theoretically capable of NVIS, and hope it works out.

Why try to push NVIS to a wildly high 30 MHz, when one can just jump 
straight to "a bajillion MHZ", and destroy all notions at once, forever? 
  All theories are based on the atmosphere being able to support such 
operation at such frequencies, under certain conditions.  Most tests 
suggest it will, and research suggests the conditions will exist before 
next Summer.  I just hope reality plays nice, and the results are 
definitive.

Kurt