At 07:19 PM 1/23/2009, you wrote: >Met a ham operator at an unrelated event the other day and he was insistent >about a device one can order from the U.K. for a few hundred dollars that >allows you to receive magnetic waves only, as opposed to electronic waves. He >said these magnetic waves are many db quieter. Is this bunk or is there any >truth to this? He seemed serious, we've never met before, there were no other >DXers present (it was an event for people working in environmental >industries), and he raised this as soon as I told him I DXed the broadcast >bands (he mentioned in a group conversation earlier that he was a ham). So is >he a ham in more ways than one, or is this legit? > >Saul > Saul, he must be talking about the Wellbrook line of equipment. I have a couple of ALA 100s, but as Nick mentioned, they are strictly receive only, but generally great performers......Walt.
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