I had picked up the Lessay chain in the summer over night. But it was very unreliable. Have been waiting for winter to try again. I suppose it might be time but business travel will preclude a effort this week. I am off next week so that should be a good chance.
My antennas are. Preamplified loran whip 6' off the ground. Was good enough for the summer A 67 foot vertical with many radials 16 X as an alternate. No preamp. Paul WB8TSL Near Boston Ma. On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Stan, W1LE <stanw...@verizon.net> wrote: > Good Morning Claude, > > I am assembling a K9AY terminated loop antenna, pointing to N. Europe. (~30 > degrees) > Will use a ARR preamplifier at the antenna. > > I hope to start listening later this month. > > Some stations to listen for: > Lessay, France master on GRI 6731, Soustons France, slave X > BO , master on 7001, Jan Mayen, slave X, Berlevag slave Y > Sylt, on 7499, Lessay, slave X, Vaerlandet, slave Y > Eidi (Ejde) on 9007 master, Jan Mayen slave W, BO slave X, > Vaerlandet slave Y > > > From my location on Cape Cod FN41sr, looks like the closest active chain > is Eidi with GRI of 9007 > Eidi, IP62lh DX of 2900.1 miles > Jan Mayen, IQ50pv, 2900.2 miles > Lessay, IN99fd at 3274.1 miles > Soustons, IN93hr at 3412.4 miles, (6731 GRI) > > I have not calculated BO, and Berlevag details (7001 GRI) nor for the Sylt > chain. > > A google search on "Loran C stations" will show a listing of the few active > stations > with the station details like RF power output and Lat/Long. > I have converted Lat/Long to 6 digit grid locator for my ease in LOB and > DX calculations with BD2004 software. > > Sky wave propagation should be possible for the North Atlantic, European, > Western Russia, Saudi, and Mediterranean chains. > > Low likelihood of any ground wave and its better accuracies. > I miss my Nantucket Loran-C station and its Cs accuracies. > > A modern Stanford Research Systems model FS700 Loran C receiver > is on hand as the receiver. > > Stan, W1LE Cape Cod FN41sr > > > > > On 12/12/2010 8:17 AM, Claude Houde wrote: > >> Hello everybody. >> >> Does anyone on the northern east coast has been sucessfull in receiving >> European Loran C chains ? >> >> I'm located around Montreal, Québec. >> >> If so, what type of antennas you used ? >> >> Thanks ! >> >> Claude Houde VA2 HDD >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.