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On Oct 6, 2013, at 2:43 PM, john wrote: > If you don't notice a significant difference in background noise levels and > signal strengths of stations when you attache a long wire to the receiver, > there's something wrong with the radio, or the way the antenna is being > attached. OK, thanks — I’ll pull the wire back out and give it another try. > Is it a wire that attaches directly to the built in whip? No. > Most "long wires" that come with receivers aren't very long. I haven’t actually measured this one, but it’s probably around forty feet. > What happens if you moisten your finger tips and touch the whip? does the > background noise jump up some? It doesn’t appear to make any difference. > Do you hear WWV at 5/10/15 Mhz at any time? (I assume you mean Khz, not Mhz.) I’m not getting them right now, no. On 15, I’m picking up a faint sporadic “blooping” type noise, nothing more. Let me try attaching the wire again and see whether that makes any difference. Government furloughs definitely leave you with a lot of time on your hands… even with all the TV that I have to watch and the schoolwork that I have to do, I’m still a man of leisure right now, albeit an involuntary one. ______________________________________________________________ Spooks mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks 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
