Re: LF: SAQ Transmissions 29.06.03

["Dick Rollema" <d.w.rollema@freeler.nl>]

Dear Ed,

 From the messages on this reflector it is evident that quite a few
amateurs received SAQ OK, using different types of receiver.  
Last year I measured the field strength of SAQ at my location as more
than 400 microvolt/metre, so a respectable signal.
But is important that the aerial system is more or less tuned to
17.2kHz.

I used the aerial system for the 136kHz band with 26nF extra in parallel
with  the tuning/matching coil to make the system resonant at
17.2kHz. 
The receiver was a Wandel & Goltermann selective level meter type
PSM-12, connected to a tap near the bottom end of the tuning coil. 
But you don't  need such a sensitive instrument at all. 
Jim, M0BMU, made and used an electro-mechanical receiver  (a design
in harmony with the alternator transmitter) without any amplification at
all,  that was described in RadCom of March 2002.

73, Dick, PA0SE

At 22:53 13-7-03 +0100, you wrote:
> Hi
> Group,
> I picked up your email address
> from  the American lwca.org website, and would respectfully ask
> please if you know of anyone who did receive the  June 03 SAQ
> transmissions in the UK, and if so but  more importantly------
> How?
> Here in the North-East corner of
> England, I heard absolutely nothing, much to my surprise and
> disappointment. Clearly, my home-brew receiving system wasn't sensitive
> enough, despite my efforts.  So I would really be pleased to get
> technical details from anyone who actually managed to receive the
> signals, such that I can be ready for the New Year's SAQ
> schedule?
> Any ideas
> please?
> 73 de Ed. Chicken
> G3BIK
>  
>  
>