Hi Stefan, Last two or three days have been rather noisy, yesterday I had to turn down the volume of the receiver as the static was reaching annoying levels. But hey, transmitting _is_ fun and I am s
Hi Stefan, I followed up your suggestion of elevating the wire off the ground and it seems that there is some benefit in doing that: http://people.physics.anu.edu.au/~dxt103/136/earth/3/ However, it'
Hi Stefan, I have read your adventures in the "dreamer's band" and I admit it has been very inspiring. Yes, I am planning some VLF activity soon. I have already got a kW capable audio amplifier, so a
Hi Dimitris, Am 12.10.2011 23:47, schrieb Dimitrios Tsifakis: Was the 450 km reception done during the day or night? It was in the evening. The mail and screenshot is in one of the 1000s of mails her
Hi Dimitris, Sorry, have lost your mail in the large ammount of mails yesterday ;-) Am 11.10.2011 23:37, schrieb Dimitrios Tsifakis: Hi Stefan, Last two or three days have been rather noisy, yesterda
Hi John, Yes, the more the better. If it is just one rod and the overall losses would be 450 Ohm, i expect a high ground conductivity which would be worse for an earth antenna... Maybe the elevated w
hi Dimitrios, Amongst other things, it depends on the geology. G3XBM has managed 5.6 km with 5 W RF at very low frequency. On 87 kHz with 4W SSB (cave radio) in limestone, the best I know of is 1.6 k
Earth probes not suitable for DX but good for cave exploration, looking for Bats and the Loch Ness Monster g3kev hi Dimitrios, Amongst other things, it depends on the geology. G3XBM has managed 5.6 k
Hi John, Well, the S/N required for voice is much higher than that of QRSS30. With a puny 3 W of RF and QRSS30 it seems I can cover a distance of about 30 km and still have a S/N of 30 dB! Which impl
Hi John and Stefan, I know that the electrodes can be improved, the ones I used are 1 m long galvanized rods, driven 2/3 or so in the ground. But at this stage, I wanted to keep all but one parameter
Hello Dimitris, Very interesting and nice to read experiments and web page! Good to see some experimenters beeing available. Some questions and ideas: How do you ground the earth antenna at the end?