Re: [HCDX] [FLARC monitoring SIG] Beacon VTR 350khz

2020-11-20 Thread FRED BELGHAUS
You'd be surprised how far an NDB signal can go, especially at night, and especially when running 1 KW. And with a weak signal on the product frequency, it's quite possible. Mixing products from NDBs have been heard on 160 meters 1,000 miles away from the NDB, mixing with a BC station hundreds of

Re: [HCDX] [FLARC monitoring SIG] Beacon VTR 350khz

2020-11-19 Thread Paul B. Walker, Jr.
I doubt VTR is mixing with a station 230 miles away On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 2:50 PM FRED BELGHAUS wrote: > 3rd harmonics of NDBs can be a real problem on the 160 meter amateur band > also. > Several have caused QRM (interference) to stations there, and had to be > shut down > temporarily for rep

Re: [HCDX] [FLARC monitoring SIG] Beacon VTR 350khz

2020-11-19 Thread FRED BELGHAUS
3rd harmonics of NDBs can be a real problem on the 160 meter amateur band also. Several have caused QRM (interference) to stations there, and had to be shut down temporarily for repair. The NDB transmitters are rather primitive affairs, without much attention paid in design to spurious or harmonic