Oh what a detour. It sounds like I may need to build a small loop stick antenna to see what that may do. I would agree that if you were at the station your needle or meter should have been pegged. I really don't need another project right now. :-) Regards Paul.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Bill Riches <bill.ric...@verizon.net> wrote: > 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: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] 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 -- 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.