Sandy,
That's great! I was beginning to feel like there was some question
about
the authenticity of my reports. Your report should remove any doubts.
To do this with a 50 cm E field probe should encourage many others to
listen.
I was also surprised to find what I thought would be my noisiest antenna
to work the best. I tried large multiturn tuned balanced loops, a large
shielded unbalanced loop, a tuned 200 foot per side square horizontal
loop and a beverage. Then I find my 160 meter dipole fed as a T, right
above the house, close to many noise sources, receives 136 KHz the
best! The only noise source I have noticed is from a light dimmer. Now
that's noise!
73,
Dexter
Nan and Sandy Sanders wrote:
From about 0030 GMT to about 0230 GMT and again from about 0330 GMT to
about 0600 GMT I was able to copy G3AQC . I also copied dashes from M0BMU (
who was a bit stronger in the first time period but only lasted about half
the second period ). There was also a very faint broken line that could
have been G3XTZ but was never strong enough to copy any letters. I used
ARGO build 113 in 30s dot mode agc on.
I plan to download build 117 and give it a try tonight.
The most interesting thing I find about this reception is the receive
antenna is a 50 cm long E field probe mounted 50 cm above the flat metal
roof of a three story office building full of computers. It is able to hear
much better than all but 1 or 2 of the home stations in this area.
Sandy
WB5MMB
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