[Lowfer] WM too bright!

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:58:03 -0900

Yep its really odd this and needs more investigation! Packing continues and 
a lot of my LF gear is on Ebay this evening....gotta make some space for the 
flower pots!

>From: "WE0H" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: [Lowfer] WM too bright!
>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 23:56:52 -0600
>
>I believe what someone told me last winter that the tree sap is down in the
>roots and the trees are more dry and frozen hence less absorption. I see my
>verticals signal goes up dramatically when the temp is below 32F and even
>more so when it goes below zero. If the temp goes above 32F the verticals
>signal goes down almost half of what it was at the below 32F point.
>
>Mike>WE0H
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>On Behalf Of Laurence KL1X
>Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:57 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WM too bright!
>
>Ill put a real time moose-o-meter on the web site, and an equivalent
>Imaginary one too...J becomes M.
>Im imagining that real Moose are mostly C and too little L  (ie,  I C 
>moose,
>or 2 L with the moose)
>
>Auroral cam is something beyond me. We do get more than a little light
>pollution from the airport which I think think would spoil most shots.
>
>joking or mathematics apart my insurgents do change the total electrical
>combination, and dependant on my temp and tuning can actually increase the
>aerial current (moose gain). Having two or more moose either laying down or
>walking fighting adjacent to the vertical can cause large variations in
>tuning - they are BIGGG and nasty tempered this time of year.
>
>Im still looking for an answer of why we get so much reduced losses when
>the ground/trees freezes and temps get down below 0F . If my calcs are
>correct my total Resistance for the beacon array is now around 10 ohms, 
>even
>with the "reduced" earth Mat. Is this purely a dilectric change in the 
>local
>earth return...wouldnt the top few feet of the "conductive" part of the
>earth return (ac?) become worse - or is it that now the radio wave has
>increased virtual height as the top of the soil is less lossy and  the
>signal is penetrating more deeply into the soil? Im on glaicial till of of
>sand and clay with medium/poor conductivy/perm at LF. I know already  that
>the signal already pushes many meters down at this freq..
>
>These questions and more...
>
>Laurence
>wd2xdw 137,77355 D120 CW6
>
>
>
> >From: "John Davis" <[email protected]>
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WM too bright!
> >Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:47:20 -0500
> >
> > >> and a realtime moose-o-meter could provide clues as to how well you
> > >> might be radiating on any given day.  :-)
> > >
> > >Calibrated in Bullwinkles per square meter, of course.
> > >
> >
> >Oh my.  Time to dust off our math textbooks, as that will involve complex
> >numbers.
> >
> >As you recall, our hero's full name was Bullwinkle J Moose.  By invoking
> >the
> >j-operator, we therefore must take into account both the real and 
>imaginary
> >components of all the moose in Laurence's yard.
> >
> >Presumably, if there are only real moose present [the (X+0J)
> >Bullwinkles/m^2
> >condition] then only loss resistance will be affected.  However, if any 
>of
> >the moose are at least partly imaginary, then we would see
> >(X+YJ)Bullwinkles/m^2, which, by the jayward transformation, will also
> >reflect a reactive component, thus detuning the antenna itself.
> >
> >Conclusion:  Imaginary moose are likely to affect transmitted signal 
>levels
> >more than real moose alone.  Thus, some of the hitherto unexplained 
>sudden
> >changes in LowFER antenna performance may be accounted for by imaginary
> >moose in the victim's vicinity.  Further support is lent to this theory 
>by
> >the fact that most operators whose antennae have suddenly changed
> >efficiency
> >have, in fact, not been able to see any real moose in their 
>neighborhoods.
> >
> >John D
>
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