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Joe Craig wrote:

>Roelof and group,
>
>I was using an ft-817 with the miniwhip and was quite amazed that
>the LF TX could be heard at 20km.  I will try the attenuator between the
>rig and the miniwhip next time to see if the intermod is from the RX.
>Thanks fort the suggestion.
>
>The ft817 is very deaf below 0.5 MHz because of the small inductive
>reactances in the front end and mixer xfmr I believe, but modifying
>it would be awkward because of its size.
>
>  
>
The FT-817 works very well on 136kHz with one of G0MRF's preamps.

Peter, G3LDO