[Elecraft] K3 receive on .474.2 kHz

[Merv Schweigert]

No,  no tuner used at all,  with the feeders tied together its like a 
random wire
and I feed it into the receiver.
Have plenty of band noise so dont think a tuner would do much better,
My location is very low in man made noise,  no neighbors and the 
utilities are
all underground.
Merv
> 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
>
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