Scott one other comment you are 20 miles or so from WWVB. I would zero in on that in a heartbeat. I might guess a diode and tuned circuit would even give a reasonable signal. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:59 AM, paul swed <[email protected]> wrote: > Scott > I do not believe any antenna will allow you to even hear the signal. Much > less allow it to become useful. > I have a srs700 on the eastcoast and on rare evenings I can barely get the > European signals. On occasion get lock I have a good preamplified antenna > some what away from noise sources. (Relatively speaking). > I have numbers of other LORAN C rcvrs and as an example the austrons seem > a bit better at recovering the signals. > > So funny story at the last two ham flea markets in new england a dealer is > carrying around a FS700 approached him at these flea markets. Well the > thing was gold. Wanted $300-400 for the unit. It did not matter that it was > useless in the US. I would put these at a value of $20 today. > > Unless you happen to have a LORAN C simulator. But then its only good for > comparing 2 references against each other. Or more importantly a fine case > for a GPS reference. :-) > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > Boston > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Azelio Boriani > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Yes, I have seen that some old Loran receivers (like the Apollo 612B) have >> fixed preprogrammed chain delays (GRIs) and others (like Raynav 520) can >> be >> set with a variable delay. >> >> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Magnus Danielson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On 11/06/2011 12:25 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > >> >> In message<[email protected]>, >> >> Scott H >> >> arris writes: >> >> >> >> I picked up a SRS FS700 LORAN-C frequency standard cheap and is >> >>> seem to be functional, but I don't have the active antenna. >> >>> >> >> >> >> I live about 20 miles west of Boulder, CO. >> >>> >> >> >> >> I seriously doubt you will get any kind of signal that the FS700 or >> >> any other LORAN-C receiver can use. Your nearest station may be >> >> one of the Russian "Chayka" stations. >> >> >> >> PS: But I'm in the market for a cheap FS700, if you want to get >> >> rid of it again, but we need to find a sensible way to ship it >> >> to Denmark... >> >> >> > >> > I would too be in the market for one, I'm in Sweden so I too get to see >> > some LORAN-C. However, I recall there being some issue with the FS700 >> and >> > support for European chains due to the chain delay settings. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Magnus >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, go to >> > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> > and follow the instructions there. >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
