Hi Alan, I should have made it clearer in my first post. I'm not going to connect an unregulated solar panel to a 12 volt sealed battery! My plan is to make up a custom battery for the job out of the
Hello LFers, Despite some good captures and reports from receive sites close to the east coast of Canada and the U.S., nothing was seen further inland. As long as U.K. and European stations are activ
Hello LFers, Not getting anything near as solid as the east coast boys, but I think there's a hint of a signal where it should be. 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL Solar and wind powered Lowfer " EAR" 188.8
Hello LFers, I'll have my loop aimed at Europe/UK over the weekend and be watching the 136.320 TA window for activity. 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL Solar and wind powered Lowfer " EAR" 188.830 EN93dr ht
Hi Mike, LFers, Sorry, but no capture last night. I checked the W1VD grabber a few times throughout the evening and I saw that you where a weak copy there, so not much hope for me. I'll keep watching
Hello LFers, I've had no mail from the LowFER list for the last day or so. Is the list down, or I'm I missing out on the mail for another reason? Reply direct or via this reflector...thanks! 73, J.B.
Hello LFers, Does anyone here know how the Kenwood TS-440 fares at 500 kHz.? Mine does a fine job down at 137 and equally well on the Lowfer 160- 190 kHz. range, but it seems a little "deaf" around 5
Hi Jim, LFers, How about a pix or two of that rebuilt tuner? 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL Solar and wind powered Lowfer " EAR" 188.830 EN93dr http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle
Hello LFers, I took the attached Argo snippet at 11:45 UTC April 2nd. Notice the slight frequency shift downward. Argo was set at QRSS60 and normal speed. My frequency scale reads about 0.6 Hz high,
Hello LFers, Here's another shot taken at 12:00 UTC of the same signal. I included the two Loran lines as a reference and to show that the drift isn't my receiver. 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL Solar and
Hi Vernon, Nice looking captures from last night. How are you coupling your long wires (I envy that 2000 footer) to the receiver? It's great to see another VE station. 73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL Solar
Hello Lloyd, Joe, LFers, It looks like I took my capture at the same time as you, Lloyd!! This was the most solid that I've ever seen Joe's signals into my neck of the woods. Rough figuring puts me13
Hi John, LFers, The source and load Z are both 600 ohms. I'm using a telephone "repeater coil" at the shack end of the line for isolation from local ground of the sound card's mic-in. The "antenna" i
Hi Alan, If the roll off was such that the strength was around 6 dB down at 250 Hz. it would satisfy my requirements. What I'm after is reducing mains hum and its first few harmonics to a level where
Hi John, LFers, Success!! Since the primary and secondary windings of the repeater coils are actually two windings hooked in series, I removed the link on the line side and replaced it with a 0.1 cap
Hello LFers, I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to, or directly send to me, a circuit for a high-pass filter designed for use on a 600 ohm balanced audio line. A passive RC circuit that roll
LFers, I've always thought that the term CW was a misnomer, since it isn't continuous in the strickest sense, being keyed on and off in some specific pattern. Perhaps the CW setting of the mode switc
Hello John, LFers, XES was its usual solid copy last evening. I ran SpecLab rather than Argo just for a change of pace and also to look closer at a particular slice. Nothing else was seen, though. 73
Hi Joe, John, LFers, Nothing showing of NA so far this evening (01:30 UTC) but XES's DFCW is coming thru pretty well, as are the Loran lines a bit further down. I haven't seen them of late, likely du
Hello Lowfers, LFers, I've downloaded and installed Navtex version 2.1.0 for something new to try. It seems to be working OK, but I do have one issue with it. The display doesn't fit well into my scr
