Fine Ron, Well quite a lot of uk stations are running T or some form of top loaded vertical , with 35 feet vertical section, mine is in the form of a inverted L with 35 ft vertical, 40 turn/3inch top
Ron, If you make an e-probe it should cover both bands. From what I hear it shouldn't be long before Canada gets 137 and possibly 500kHz amateur allocations so it wouldn't hurt to get a jump on thing
Hello Ron, I built a pair of these loops for receiving. They work excellent. http://www.we0h.us/505kc/Simple-RX-Loop-Antenna/ Let me know if you want to try and listen for my signal. I can put a beac
Hi Graham, its a good thing that they did the ice-road truckers series before the economic slowdown, traffic this year has been very light with a drivers not even making their expenses to come up her
I've been reading the occasional posting to the list, wondering if I could find some time and money to work with. As we do not yet have licences for the 500KHz band, the best place to start would be
Ron, Not to throw a wet blanket over your ambitions, but it will be very challenging (to put it mildly) for you to hear 500kHz amateur activity. The nearest active stations are thousands of miles awa
Hi Warrren, and thanks to both Daves, Grahm and Mike. I've checked out the websites suggested and may go ahead with a basic receiving set up. Non-directional beacons on the MF band are still widely u
Hi Graham, my actual location is at postal code X1A 2H5 I'm in the company crew house at the float base. In the Google map for the postal code, at the highest available satellite magnification, you s
I was looking on google earth ... looks to be a lot of sea planes about .. that would prevent any high mast ?? the location looks a bit tricky .......a low long wire may be good .. but can you get on