[Lowfer] Re: Medfer Loop Design

Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:51:53 -0400

Great stuff, Tim and Mike!

.....And this time frame was before AGRO appeared on our screens! Now I'm 
beginning to wonder why Medfer didn't revitalize once the digital modes 
became popular. Was it the fact that the band was being eaten alive by the 
expanded AM band and few realized that this infringement wasn't a major 
problem with ARGO? I still can't believe how empty 1701 to 1705 on was on 
QRSS3 the other night. There was virtually nothing in that whole 4 kHz 
except atmospheric noise! Had to keep checking to see if the antenna had 
become disconnected.

Bill A

>From: "Tim Brannon" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Lowfer] Re: Medfer Loop Design
>Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 22:00:59 -0500
>
>Back around 1995 there was a beacon listing in the Top End column of  THE
>LOWDOWN for a medfer callsign "ABC".  This beacon was on 1677.5 kHz and 
>used
>a transmitting loop.  The operator was Todd Roberts, WD4NGG, on Hilton Head
>in South Carolina.  I remember seeing a picture of it and a few paragraphs
>in one issue, but I flipped through my back-issues last night and couldn't
>find it.
>
>I'm pretty sure that I read where Todd got some actual DX reports on it (no
>offense intended to you loopers...  ;-)
>
>John, do you recall any of the details?
>
>Tim Brannon   KF5CQ
>Dallas
>
>
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