It has been pointed out, quite correctly, that the ARRL story about
LF operating has errors in it.
In defense of my fellow journalists, I will say that given limited
resources it is inevitable that some errors will creep into any article.
I wrote a similar story for this week's GB2RS News Bulletin (see
http://www.rsgb.org/news from about 1600UTC Friday) and it took
me an hour to research and collate information from 20 e-mails, and
cut 1000 words of source material into 150 words aimed at the non-
LF radio amateur. Even though I know the subject well, I bet there
will be some errors where I have misunderstood something (for
instance, dates are a nightmare when the dateline crosses the
transmission path).
What I have learnt from seeing some really awful amateur radio
stories in national and local newspapers is that, so long as there is
nothing damaging in the story the saying "all publicity is good
publicity" is true.
The article is certain to get several more US amateurs interested in
receiving on LF, so from our point of view it will have done its job
successfully.
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Mike Dennison, G3XDV
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