Re: [time-nuts] 60KHz Antenna Cont'd

2010-10-20 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi John: I found the AMRAD active antenna was designed for 137 kHz operation and was very noisy at 60 kHz. See: http://www.prc68.com/I/LF-Ant.shtml PS the AMRAD specified fuse is maybe 100X the value needed to protect the transformer from a short on the coax. Guess how I learned this. The

Re: [time-nuts] 60KHz Antenna Cont'd

2010-10-20 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Here's the page I wrote years ago on the split-shield antenna: http://www.febo.com/time-freq/wwvb/antenna/index.html Unfortunately, I never took any photos and the antenna is now in pieces after a couple of moves. I've also had good luck using an active voltage probe antenna to receive both

Re: [time-nuts] 60KHz Antenna Cont'd

2010-10-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
M To: time-nuts-requ...@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] 60KHz Antenna Cont'd Gents, Wrote: < John's antenna should be in the archives. Just 100 feet of RG-58 wound on a 4 foot diagonal PVC pipe frame, with the shield split at 50 feet, IIRC. Tried resonating it, got unstable results. C

[time-nuts] 60KHz Antenna Cont'd

2010-10-19 Thread Perry Sandeen
Gents, Wrote: < John's antenna should be in the archives. Just 100 feet of RG-58 wound on a 4 foot diagonal PVC pipe frame, with the shield split at 50 feet, IIRC. Tried resonating it, got unstable results. Could you please elaborate on the construction details such as co-ax used, indoors or