[Milsurplus] SAQ on the air June 30th

B. Smith smithab11 at comcast.net
Thu Jun 20 19:11:52 EDT 2019


I've had very good luck with portable loop antennas here in Chickenland.
http://k4che.com/Christmas%2007%20loop/Page%201.htm

k4che

On 6/20/2019 5:53 PM, Richard wrote:
>
> SAQrx works very well, and "you" have a chance of receiving SAQ in 
> America, at least on the East Coast.  I use it with an E-Field Probe 
> antenna, and usually hear the Christmas Eve broadcast, and sometimes 
> in the Summer due to higher QRN levels.  You can make an E-Field Probe 
> or buy a kit for very little, or buy one from Russia or the Ukraine 
> for little more. For comparison, a 120 foot wire works very well at MF 
> (say 500 Kc) but becomes more quiet as frequency goes lower, and is 
> silent at 17 Kc.  However, the Probe soldiers on and works very well 
> at 17 Kc.  It's also a usable auxiliary receiving antenna through 30 Mc.
>
> Richard, AA1P
>
> On 6/20/19 1:02 PM, Al Klase wrote:
>> Gang,
>>
>> This is an interesting piece of software.  It doesn't install, it 
>> just runs.  OK on win10.    It takes the mic input, displays the 
>> audio spectrum, and output a USB detected signal via PC audio out.  
>> Just for grins, I plunged the output of an AM radio into mic in.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm listening to Rush with the detector tuned to zero, and BW opened 
>> up to 3 KHz.
>>
>> Of course you'd need some sort of tuned circuit between your antenna 
>> and the mic input.  I seriously doubt you'd hear SAQ from North 
>> America, but I'll bet it would work like a champ in Europe.
>>
>> Enough playing around,
>> Al
>>
>> On 6/18/2019 4:11 PM, K4TQF--- via Milsurplus wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't have a VLF receiver? download a spam free one here:
>>>
>>>
>>> SAQrx VLF Receiver - SM6LKM 
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/sm6lkm/saqrx/>
>>>
>>>
>>> 	
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/sm6lkm/saqrx/>
>> -
>> Al Klase – N3FRQ
>> Jersey City, NJ
>> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>>
>>
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