From w4foa at comcast.net  Sun Jul 23 15:28:50 2006
From: w4foa at comcast.net (Tony Martin W4FOA)
Date: Sun Jul 23 15:41:56 2006
Subject: [Lowfer] Looking for recommendations
Message-ID: <002c01c6ae8e$3a280c50$6401a8c0@customerwfagb8>

Hi Gang,
Newcomer to the list but so far have seen no activity.
I'm looking for thoughts and recommendations...hoping this hasn't been
the subject of recent discussions.
Would like to get something going before Winter and quiter receiving
conditions.  None of my radios tune the VLF/LF range and am thinking
about a converter like the Palomar that will work with my Drake 2B or
Drake R4C receiver.
Any thoughts or recommendations...DO's and/or DON'Ts.
Guess a direct reply would be best.
Thanks.
Tony, W4FOA
Chickamauga, GA


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From w1tag at charter.net  Sun Jul 23 15:33:49 2006
From: w1tag at charter.net (John Andrews)
Date: Sun Jul 23 16:44:35 2006
Subject: [Lowfer] Looking for recommendations
In-Reply-To: <002c01c6ae8e$3a280c50$6401a8c0@customerwfagb8>
References: <002c01c6ae8e$3a280c50$6401a8c0@customerwfagb8>
Message-ID: <44C3CF1D.2080903@charter.net>

Tony,

This list has been mostly inactive for the last couple of years. I 
suggest you go to the Longwave Club of America website:
http://www.lwca.org
and select "email groups". You can sign up for the LWCA Lowfer mail list 
which is quite busy.

Regarding your question (which you should feel free to ask on the other 
mail list), the converter approach should work fine for casual 
listening. It would allow you to copy aeronautical beacons, longwave 
broadcast stuff from EU, and so forth. It would not be a good choice for 
  the current generation of weak signal stuff, however. For that, you 
would need tuning accuracy down to 1 Hz, and stability in the milliHertz 
range over long periods. That is best done with a receiver having 
synthesized tuning. If you use a converter ahead of it, the stability of 
the oscillator in that converter has to be considered.

Most of the guys doing weak-signal work are using current model ham 
receivers or transceivers without converters. The Icom R75 is a popular 
receiver, and there are certainly others.

John Andrews, W1TAG
From kr4wm at earthlink.net  Sun Jul 23 19:52:07 2006
From: kr4wm at earthlink.net (Web Williams)
Date: Sun Jul 23 20:02:47 2006
Subject: [Lowfer] Wrong sign-up procedure
Message-ID: <9334038.1153698728034.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

One of the list managers on the LWCA lowfer list asked me to post here 
and let everyone who tried to use MAJORDOMO to subscribe that MAJORDOMO 
commands DO NOT WORK! The LWCA list is MANUAL SUBSCRIPTION ONLY! 
The list owner manually approves all new subscribers, presumably because 
of SPAM issues. You must send an e-mail using the prescribed procedures 
outlined at: http://lwca.org/groups.shtml Below is the information I received 
from the LWCA listmaster.

73, -KR4WM

I guess the mention of this list over there is what prompted so many new
subscribers today.  There would have been more, except some folks tried to
subscribe using commands directly to majordomo.  That doesn't work.  If you
are still a subscriber to the other list, could you do me a favor and
mention there that it is necessary to follow the subscription procedure in
http://lwca.org/groups.shtml ?  Thanks very much, and again--welcome!

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