{"id":20524,"date":"2016-08-11T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=20524"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:09:49","slug":"experience-with-heros-technology-ltd-uk-vlf-up-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/experience-with-heros-technology-ltd-uk-vlf-up-converter\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience with Heros Technology Ltd UK VLF Up-Converter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VLF-LF-Upconverter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20525\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VLF-LF-Upconverter.jpg\" alt=\"VLF-LF-Upconverter\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VLF-LF-Upconverter.jpg 500w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VLF-LF-Upconverter-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0Michael Vitale, who (several weeks ago&#8211;!) asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Has anyone ever dealt with the equipment from Heros Technology Ltd UK specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/herostechnology.co.uk\/pages\/VLF-LF-MF_Converter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their VLF converters models 350-400<\/a>? Their claim is these converters will work with any receiver (SW) on the market past or present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hiWVBEPwfvY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hiWVBEPwfvY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view the video introduction to the VLF-LF Up-Converter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I, personally, have no experience with VLF\/LF up-converters, so I&#8217;m hoping someone else can help Michael. \u00a0<em>Please comment!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Michael Vitale, who (several weeks ago&#8211;!) asked: Has anyone ever dealt with the equipment from Heros Technology Ltd UK specifically their VLF converters models 350-400? Their claim is these converters will work with any receiver (SW) on the market past or present. Click here to view the video introduction to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4199,3,3485],"tags":[5343,5344,3486,5342],"class_list":["post-20524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-news","category-vlf","tag-heros-technology-ltd-uk","tag-lf","tag-vlf","tag-vlf-lf-mf-bands-up-converter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5l2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24462,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/hro-consignment-deal-heros-technology-vlf-lf-up-converter\/","url_meta":{"origin":20524,"position":0},"title":"HRO consignment deal: HEROS technology VLF-LF up-converter","author":"Thomas","date":"March 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ron, who is a fan of longwave DX and notes that HRO has a Heros Technology VLF\/LF up-converter on consignment\/used. 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Here's the product description: The Hamcrafters VLF Converter is based on the original Palomar design and converts 10 KHz - 500 KHz to 4.010 to 4.5 MHz. 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The Earth is surrounded by two radiation belts (Van Allen Belts).\u00a0 But something strange has been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Nasa-Barrier-300x121.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11846,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/grimeton-vlf-broadcast-on-christmas-eve\/","url_meta":{"origin":20524,"position":5},"title":"Grimeton VLF broadcast on Christmas Eve","author":"Thomas","date":"December 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In response to our announcement\u00a0about WG2XFQ, SWLing Post reader, Kimmo, comments: The Christmas Eve event by Swedish Friends of Veteran Radio on VLF 17.2 kHz and SW may also be of interest to some. 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