[Lowfer] Re: What receiver do you recommend?

[Ed Phillips]

WE0H wrote:
> 
> Hey Steve,
> The steel wire would have a high Rac but I think with enough of it out there
> that the signal would be high enough to overcome the losses. At some point
> the longer the antenna on LF, the higher the signal but higher noise too.

	Steel wire shouldn't be a problem at all.  in Watt's "VLF Engineering"
there's a description of a huge VLF (~20 kHz) German station (Gigante?)
built during WW2 for communication with subs.  All galvanized steel and
the quoted efficiency is very good.

Ed