Hello LFers, What are most of you fellows setting your Nr of frames value at in the Wolf Config screen? How important is this setting as to its effect on decodes? Thanks in advance for any/all replie
Hi Joe, I'll be visiting St. John's from the 17th. to 24th., staying at a B&B right downtown. I don't know what my wife has planned, but perhaps we could have an eyeball QSO over an evening meal if y
Hello LFers, On a recent trip to Newfoundland my wife and I had the pleasure of meeting Joe, VO1NA, for an eyeball QSO and chat about our LF activities. Attached is a shot of Joe sitting on the base
Hello LFers, Wishing my LF friends across the pond a Merry Christmas from chilly but snow free Saltford, Ontario, Canada! I hope your bad weather has left all antennas intact. 73, J.B., VE3EAR
Hello LFers, Lowfers, The north-south propagation was good again last night, and I snagged the Navtex station K from Puerto Montt Chile again...the third time in less than two weekjs! Andy, I'm glad
Hello LFers, Lowfers, It seems that the TA path is good this evening, with PA0A again showing up here on the eastern shore of Lake Huron. I'll leave the rig running throughout the evening and see if
Hello LFers, I just got WSPR 2.0 installed this evening and am happy to report a successful TA capture! The QTH here is on the east shore of Lake Huron near the town of Goderich, quite a ways inland
Hello LFers, I'd just like to throw in my two pence worth from this side of the pond. As it is very likely that the only listeners down there would be fellow experimenters, just go ahead and do it. I
Hello LFers, First I'd like to congratulate those who have made the effort to explore this new and very challenging frequency! As Stefan and others have mentioned, an "earth loop" over poor ground is
Hello Warren, Lowfers, At 03:45 UTC I'm still getting good copy of XGJ on Spec Lab here at Aerial Acres on the east shore of Lake Huron. Your 100 watts are doing their job, Warren...thanks for being
Hi Andy, LFers, Your phone wiring mods are right along the same that I had to do here...my ADSL wasn't running up to par and I was also hearing burbling on the phone during the transmit cycles of my
Hello LFers, I did a Google search using the subject line and found quite a number of sites. One of them: http://www.academypublisher.com had a very interesting writeup on the subject of ground loop
Hello LFers, I like things just the way they are. Quick turn-around in posting/appearing is the most important feature to me when trying an experiment of one form or another. You can't fix what isn't
Hi Paul, Ah, it takes me back to the days of winding the secondary for my big Tesla coil and I know how it feels! You've done a great job on it. I've used both marine epoxy (West System) and shellac
Hello LFers & Lowfers, Volume 7 of the ARRL Antenna Compendium has an interesting article by John, VE2CV, on an electrically small antenna for 160 meters. He mentions how a virtual inductance can be
Hello Daniele, LFers, If you can find a used Kenwood TS-440 at a good price, go for it. I'm using one here for 136, 160-190, and 500 kHz. with good results. Mitch, VE3OT, removed the attenuator to ma
Hello LFers, The G4WGT web site looked good on this side of the pond with my iMac Safari. The Next and Back buttons at the lower left of each panel made flipping through it quite easy. I found his tr
Hi Mike, LFers, I grabbed one of my many MOTs and ran some tests with the primary connected to a signal generator's 600 ohm output and the secondary connected to a VTVM. The measured L of the primary
Hello LFers, I'm finding the posts related to the "dreamers band" quite interesting and it's nice to read of the various methods that are being tried. Has anyone used a PA amplifier with a 70 volt ou
