There's an old adage about "if life hands you lemons, make lemonade." With that kind of field strength (a rough estimate from a chart I found indicates about 0.2v/m or so at your QTH) I'd think you could hook a wire to a tuned circuit on the BC station's frequency and then rectify the RF from it to charge a small battery and let them foot the bill for some of your energy needs. You might even be able to run a K1 etc. on it. (My comment is based on remembering plans for a simple "free power" radio in a mag some years ago.)
73, Al > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO" > > <[email protected]> > > To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 6:58 AM > > Subject: [Elecraft] Interesting K3 QRM problem > > > >> I live about 3.3 miles from a 50 kW BC station on 1080 kHz. It is on > >> 24 hours a day, transmitting in Arabic, not that that matters. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
