[Hammarlund] Hammarlund Restoration & Noise Level

[Arthur Delibert]

I haven’t had a problem hearing WWV in the Maryland suburbs of Washington DC, provided I’m using an antenna that favors the west or northwest. Same in Massachusetts when I’m there. But propagation in general has been TERRIBLE lately. (Can’t blame the politicians for that, even the ones who think they’re the earthly embodiments of the sun god.)

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> On Jun 5, 2019, at 19:27, Frank Barnes <fbw4npn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> CHU in Ottawa uses a 10kw xmtr, and WWV in Fort Collins also uses a 10kw
> xmtr.  Don't know about their antennas.   When I had an "atomic" clock here
> at the house, I could never get it to synch up with WWV so as to stay on
> time.   Dunno why WWV is so weak here.   It's very weak or often not heard
> on the 500+ foot loop antenna and the same on the inverted vee.   CHU is
> rarely heard on the inverted vee, but strong most of the day, and readable
> all day, on the loop.
> 
> I'm not sure that our elected officials know what decade it is, much less
> what time it is.  Think of the money we could save if they met only every
> other year, like some state legislatures do.  But then the TV "commentator"
> industry would collapse.  Boo hoo.
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 11:58 AM Jon Teske <jdteske at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Here in Metro Washington DC it is also hard to hear WWV on any frequency.
>> Now
>> when I last tried I was just using 50-60 feet of random wire out the
>> window. I have no
>> antenna to compare with your set up.  I suppose one might be tempted to
>> blame
>> WWV that our elected politicians don't know what time it is.  I suspect
>> that is
>> not the root cause.  They should never have moved it out of Greenbelt, MD
>> (I was once located next to the Goddard Space Flight Center. (Actually it
>> is
>> the other way around.  Goddard (which just celebrated its 60th Anniverary)
>> was
>> built next to WWV.  Does anyone know why the east coast of the US is such
>> a dead
>> zone for WWV?
>> 
>> Jon W3JT
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Frank Barnes <fbw4npn at gmail.com>
>> To: hammarlund <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2019 9:50 am
>> Subject: [Hammarlund] Hammarlund Restoration & Noise Level
>> 
>> I had posted earlier about restoring a HQ-129-X and how much I liked it.
>> But the QRN noise level was intolerable at my location, wiping out almost
>> every station.
>> 
>> Antenna in use was a ~400 foot low elevation random wire snaked in a rough
>> "J" shape through the woods behind my house.
>> 
>> I just added another 100 feet of wire to it and converted it to a
>> roughly-shaped LOOP antenna, fed with 450 ohm twinlead.  Bingo!  The
>> noise disappeared almost completely and I now have dozens of stations to
>> choose from.
>> 
>> Horizontal loops are known to be less responsive to radiated interference
>> from various devices, and noise in general, but I did not realize how much
>> difference one would make.
>> 
>> I can tune in CHU on 7.85mhz in the morning and the receiver will sit on it
>> all day without drifting, after warm-up.  CHU is in Ottawa.  Oddly, I can
>> almost not hear WWV from Fort Collins, CO,  on 10mhz...very weak and
>> sometimes not at all.  I can't imagine that the "loop" is directional.
>> 
>> I think that even a 100 foot loop would perform well.  Receiving - only,
>> of course, not for transmitting.  I'm happy with the HQ now.
>> Frank
>> W4NPN
>> 
>> --
>> Frank Barnes
>> W4NPN
>> Chapel Hill, NC
>> Grid Square FM05
>> Cell 919.260.7955
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> W4NPN
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> Grid Square FM05
> Cell 919.260.7955
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