After years at sea I never heard a 600M inland station, actually never even
knew of one except for the Mississippi River stations WAY back...
I am 3 miles inland and can tell you that car radio reception is weaker here
with more QRN than being down by the water...
What really helps is Bill Ashloop's antenna especially over very poor
conductivity ground and possibly the 23kv power lines that go down to the
beach in a NE direction probably adding some amount of Beverage effect...
The odd DB or so from the directional properties of the loop also help with
less noise arriving from the sides...
No complaints... No ground radials, no hazardous voltages, no lossy loading
coils, little e-noise on receive, no detuning during WX changes...
Just one piece of wire and one vacuum cap does it all... In fact it is part
of the RFPA tank circuit here... ( no DC of course )
TNX
Dave @ /17
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Andrews" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: LF: WSPR tonight
Dave Riley seems to have some advantage by being right at the coast. Here
at 100 km inland (due west), EU copy on 600M has been more difficult. I
started a WSPR session around 0130 last night, and got only the following
for the whole night:
090326 0436 3 -28 0.7 0.503881 M0BMU IO91 33
090326 0450 1 -29 0.8 0.503881 7DJ/4Q3ASX S9
The previous evening, I had nothing at all on G0BND between 2300 and 0230,
so things are looking up!
John Andrews, W1TAG
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