[Lowfer] New to the list. A few questions re: Lowfers and longwave

[Eric Smith]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Jackie LaVaque wrote:

> Mike, OK... just letting the center of the coax of my dipole touch the
> antenna jack, and with the pre-amp of the radio turned on, I hear nothing
> but background hiss at 60 KHz; a long, unbroken tone at 63 KHz; another
> long, unbroken tone at 82 KHz; and empty hiss at 100 KHz.  I also switched
> the coax with a very long #10 AWG insulated wire that stretches a whole long
> way across my lot, and I heard the same thing.

Something is definitely up ... my receiver is 40 years old, the audio 
final is blown so I have to use a crystal earphone to hear _anything_, it 
won't tune LF so I have to use a homemade converter, and my antenna is 
just a 75' wire.  Even so I can hear WWVB at 60 kHz night or day, and 
Loran at 100 kHz REALLY booms in.

I'd try another receiver, if you have one.  Wish I did :)

Eric, KD5UWL