Re: LF: Getting started, maybe

[Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com>]

Ron,

        Not to throw a wet blanket over your ambitions, but it will be
very challenging (to put it mildly) for you to hear 500kHz amateur
activity.
The nearest active stations are thousands of miles away and you are
under the auroral oval which really does a good job absorbing MF/HF
signals.
Rudy in Oregon was the closest signal and that was over 2000kM away!

You never know, you might pick up one of the big guns under ideal
conditions but it's always good to have realistic expectations.
-
73 Warren K2ORS
                WD2XGJ
                WD2XSH/23
                WE2XEB/2
                WE2XGR/1



On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Ron Thompson <ve8rt@xplornet.com> wrote:
> Hi Graham,
>
>    my actual location is at postal code X1A 2H5
>
>    I'm in the company crew house at the float base.  In the Google map for
> the postal code, at the highest available satellite magnification, you should
> see floatplanes along the parking lot and then in a cove on the upper side of
> the parking lot is a yellow Cessna floatplane.  The house just to the left of
> the floatplane is where I live.  Unfortunately, as the house is in the
> floatbase parking lot, there isn't any antenna space around it.  What I do
> have is two 15 metre towers spaced about 48 metres apart that I use for my HF
> antenna (it used to have a company commercial HF antenna before).  Any LF/MF
> antenna must be compact and mountable either to the house or one of the
> towers.  Power lines are between the house and cove, which may be a noise
> source.
>
>      Ron
>
>