??? Both my Austron 2100Fs have Austron loops.
-John ================ > Hi > > It's been a long time since I've tried this, but the Iceland chain was a > reasonable catch from the central US with an Austron 2100 and the standard > supplied whip antenna. Reception was "ok" at night and useless during the > day. As I recall the signal was well above (> 20 db) the rated floor of > the > receiver at night. > > Local noise sources near the antenna are likely to be more of an issue > than > antenna type. Directivity can indeed help with that. Down there, what ever > you use will need to be vertically polarized. If you do believe gain is > the > issue, a 30' vertical on a good ground / out in the clear may give you > almost 14 db of gain over the normal 6' whip over who knows what (volts > per > meter ...). That assumes both are run into a high impedance preamp. > > Picking up the chains in Europe (or even Asia) is very do-able. The signal > will be a sky wave only sort of thing. That limits it's use for timing. > Certainly an entertaining way to pass the winter. > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On > Behalf Of paul swed > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 12:13 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Loran DX and Austron 2100 > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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.