Dana Its on the air now. Its a 4-8 foot whip that screws into the top of the preamp. Its just a marine boat loran c antenna they were $30-50. Seriously nothing exciting about them. Do a search on loran c antenna. When loran c was active they preamp and antenna could be had inexpensively. I will believe Texas is too far away to hear the transmitter. I know it reaches out to Indiana pretty well. Regards Paul
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 5:55 PM Dana Whitlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Paul. > > Does this "standard marine preamp" have an integrated antenna of some kind? > If not (or you're not using it), can you tell me about the antenna you > *are* using? > > I've not "heard" so much as a peep here in south central Texas, but have > only > looked in the daytime. Is the station transmitting around the clock? > > I do suffer from an abysmally-high noise level here. But I'm trying to get > a > handle on whether it's even worth my trying further. > > Dana > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:23 PM paul swed <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dana that was 11:29 am when you emailed me. Looking at the 3586 its -49 > db > > now. > > To your second question I can't really know that. Its a standard marine > > preamp. Might guess 20-30 db. But its nothing special. Made by a company > > STS. Classic FET, filter , 2 X transistor design. It would be a bit of a > > math guess to use the 3586 reading and deduce the actual field strength. > > Regards > > Paul > > WB8TSL > > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 4:08 PM Dana Whitlow <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Paul, > > > > > > What time of day did you measure that signal strength? > > > > > > And what are the characteristics of the "standard marine preamp"? > > > Most importantly, what field strength corresponds to 1000 uV output > from > > > it? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Dana > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM paul swed <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello to the group. > > > > The signal is on the air. > > > > I have just discovered one of my favorite HP 3586 SLVM has an issue > > with > > > > sensitivity. > > > > For reference in Boston on a second 3586 the level is -51db avg. or > > 1000 > > > uv > > > > using a standard marine preamp 6' off the ground. The signal should > > > remain > > > > on until the 20th. > > > > I think this also points to the funny issue I was seeing yesterday > with > > > > intermittent signal levels. Darn one more project to the list. > > > > Regards > > > > Paul > > > > WB8TSL > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > > > To unsubscribe, go to > > > > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > > > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe, go to > > > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, go to > > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
