[Elecraft] K3 receive on .474.2 kHz

[Phil Wheeler]

Thanks, then I'll give it a try on RX, since my K3 
has that capability now.

Alas I'm in a high noise area, so we shall see!

73, Phil W7OX

On 2/23/15 4:50 PM, Merv Schweigert wrote:
> 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