For just receiving on 474.2kHz, you do not need a fancy antenna. Here are my results from overnight monitoring just using my standard 80/160m inverted V with the center at 50’. This seems to be typical reception, out to 3000km.
Timestamp Call MHz SNR Drift Grid Pwr Reporter RGrid km 2015-02-25 09:56 WG2XKA 0.475723 -17 0 FN33lq 1 WA8JXM EM88cr 1054 2015-02-25 09:54 WG2XJM 0.475775 -12 0 EN91wr 5 WA8JXM EM88cr 456 2015-02-25 09:54 WD2XSH/15 0.475726 -25 0 EM34rt 2 WA8JXM EM88cr 892 2015-02-25 08:30 WH2XGP 0.475688 -28 0 DN07dg 10 WA8JXM EM88cr 3040 2015-02-25 04:46 WG2XIQ 0.475609 -14 0 EM12mp 5 WA8JXM EM88cr 1366 2015-02-25 04:00 WG2XXM 0.475711 -7 0 EM15lj 2 WA8JXM EM88cr 1231 2015-02-25 04:00 WH2XND 0.475630 -24 0 DM33xt 1 WA8JXM EM88cr 2580 ______________________________________________________________ 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]
