Hi Stan, Now I am confused!! I have an 857 and 80 - 6 screwdriver in my car. Tuned it up on 3800, then looked at broadcast band - Distant stations 500 - 600 khz were coming in aboug s9. Heard 100khz about s1 - qth is 9 miles line of site from wildwood tower. Drove to Wildwood and down to the old engineering station that has been abandoned and turned into a nature trail. Drove out to Loran gate - 500 feet from tower sig was up to S9. Thought it would be stronger. No one around but left my qsl card with a note -n "Call me, I have questions!" and my phone number in the gate access box. Will see if I get a call.
I have a Wellbrook 1010 loop at 20 feet and am getting a null at about 30 degrees when receiving 100 khz. I checked null on a Wildwood AM station on 1230 and it is at 135 degrees so I know the loop is working. When I approached the tower I thought I should have a real strong signal but it only went up to about s9. I now think that Wildwood is not on the air and the increase in signal was being close to the 625 foot tower and it was acting as a passive repeater since it is resonant to 100 khz. So what loran station could be on the air at about 30 degrees or so from Cape May Court House, NJ 39 05 N 74 51 W Tower is 38 57 N 74 52 W. Mileage 9 miles and 185 deg from me. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan, W1LE Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 1:25 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Locked onto LORAN 8970 GRI Monday AM Hello Bill, I have no real idea. I can not DF at this time. Antenna is an omni. I suspect the FS700 receiver looks at GRI data and placement within the waveform and goes to a look up table in firmware to tell me the supposed location to the LORAN plan 10 years ago. Only thing that may be possible is the RX signal strengths are different for master and slave, so they may be physically separated or their TX RF is from one location at different power levels. It will be interesting what your contact at Wildwood (NJ) has to say. Stan, W1LE Cape Cod On 2/5/2013 1:06 PM, Bill Riches wrote: > OK Stan, > > What stations are you receiving - not GRI numbers but locations! > > Bill Riches > Cape May > > - _______________________________________________ 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.
