Hi Rik and others... After I discuss this problems with Bob OK2BVG and we found the problem. The tower itsefs is DC isolated, but...on the tower are 4 lihgts (2x in 70m and 2x in 135m) powered by 410
Hi LF-ers... Here is a small story from our expedition. At 1400 local time we were on site. WX was good and we start tuning the antenna. Receiving problems has been solved very quickly and we heard D
Rich, Two possiblities: 1. As Rik pointed out, it is common practice to provide a DC ground path for MW towers. This would be done with an inductor, and it may not have enough reactance at 136 kHz. 2
So John (W1TAG) was right with his second guess. However it is interesting that the 135 m tower was used on 1097 kHz (273 m wavelength), so it acted as a lambda/2 monopole. Since such antenna is high
Hello Rich, According to MMAMA the antenna capacitance should be something like 2.7nF, thus a loadingcoil of +/- 500uH would be needed. I assume that at least one of the variometers covered this rang