[Lowfer] Experimental antenna?

[Mitch Powell]

> 
> Apparently the earth bipole was 1500 feet long, and the distance to Mitch
> was only 324 miles. I expect that the antenna was directional, but the AMRAD
> article does not give the antenna orientation. They speculate, though, that
> it may have favored skywave rather than groundwave propagation ??

Just to add to Lyle's notes - I was able to copy very nice signals through
24 hours / day from the AMRAD beacon. At the time I used only Spectrogram
and got crisp, clean copy even through the mid-day period.
I don't know the direction (azimuth) of their antenna, but I had a pipeline
directly to the site, but it was always there. Too bad it has ceased
operation, as it served as a nice test signal for the 137 kHz band, and a
check of receive and antenna equipment.

73
Mitch  VE3OT