[time-nuts] Antenna for 8163

2005-09-11 Thread Joe Lippencott
Hi, New member to the group. Thank you for letting me participate. I have a question. Just received a Spectracom 8163, but can't find an 8206 antenna anywhere, reasonably priced. Has anyone on the East coast (I am in NJ) had any results with the shielded loop antenna shown on the febo website

Re: [time-nuts] Antenna for 8163

2005-09-11 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Joe: The Dymec DA100 active whip works well as does the (modified) AMRAD active whip, see: http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/LF-Ant.shtml http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/DR33.shtml#DA100 Do you have any nearby RTTY stations near 60 kHz? If so the loop may have the advantage of