Fred wrote: There was a typo in my KSM/KPH post: My brain knew that they activate the station on Sunday, but my fingers ran amok and typed Saturday.
-------------- Hey, how else can you get to use a neat word like "amok". It's as much fun to say as it is to write... Oh yeah, even 600 meters comes in from KPH here FB in the evenings, about 600 miles up the coast from their transmitters. For SWL's, the HF/LF bands are great fun - lots of non-directional beacons all over the country to 'DX', etc., although the transmissions get even more boring that "reading the mail" on contest exchanges <G>. Folks who can monitor VLF can even get a chance to listen for Grimedon's huge alternator transmitter from a century ago - nothing more than a huge AC generator hooked to an antenna working on 17 kHz with a key in the antenna circuit. (That's one you don't want to bump the contacts on with your hand...) It's in Sweden. One work the world on 500 kHz even with QRP and a short antenna. I'm aware of one instance of a hand-cranked lifeboat radio, running a couple of watts into an electrically short antenna on 500 kHz in the Mediterranean Sea, being heard half way around the world clearly enough to trigger a search in the middle of the Pacific ocean. As we've discussed many times here on the reflector, when using a short antenna, the ground is EVERYTHING! And sitting in the middle of an ocean filled with salt water is about as good as a ground can get... Ron AC7AC _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
