[Lowfer] Re: Medfer Loop Design

[Mike Staines]

> .....And this time frame was before AGRO appeared on our screens!

I don't know if I told this story here or not. Hit the delete key if you've
heard this...

A while back, I ran a medfer from New Hampshire (ID: MS). Bill DeCarle
copied it up north of Montreal. This was in the days of Argo, etc, but Bill
had a program that used DSP to help copy weak signals.

Anyway, I brought the TX inside the house and was making some improvements
on the Ramsey Kit transmitter with the slug-tuned VFO. While doing that I
was talking to someone in MD and Carl (TH) on the weekly 160 meter net. The
guy in MD said that he could copy my beacon, faint but readable. I indicated
that it was down right then. "Nope, it's there, faint but there".

I was running the transmitter in my workshop with a 5 ft piece of wire as an
antenna laying horizontally on the workbench.

Mike
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