[Elecraft] K3 receive on .474.2 kHz

[Phil Wheeler]

Merv,

Do you use an ATU on your RX antenna?

Phil W7OX

On 2/23/15 4:11 PM, Merv Schweigert wrote:
> Not quite true at all Fred,  I copy east coast 
> stations on a fairly regular basis,
> Eric is one that is a "regular",  copy of 
> various signals across the US is
> daily operation.   West coast and Canadian 
> signals are copyable here
> from before sunset until after sunset almost 
> daily with audible signals,  they
> are running a few watts ERP.
> My receive antenna so far is a 80 meter dipole 
> fed with open line, shorted at
> the shack end,  40 ft high.
> So not a large antenna by ant means and not 
> tuned to 600M.
> The band is far better than what most people 
> expect,  of course the better the
> antenna the better the results,  but there are 
> many on being heard that are
> running 160 meter antennas with large loading 
> coils and its working quite
> well.
> By the way from here to the east coast is 5000 
> mi.  2500 to you guys in CA.
> and you guys are like shooting fish in a 
> barrel.  2500 miles is nothing.
> Some hams in TX have made it to VK and ZL,  east 
> coast are crossing the
> Atlantic on good nites.
> 73 Merv K9FD/KH6  WH2XCR
>>
>> 5.  I'd say that, if you get several hundred 
>> miles on 495-510 KHz at night limited to 20 
>> watts ERP, you're doing very good.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Fred K6DGW
>> - Northern California Contest Club
>> - CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 
>> 3-4 Oct 2015
>> - www.cqp.org