[time-nuts] Locked onto LORAN 8970 GRI Monday AM

[paul swed]

Oh what a detour. It sounds like I may need to build a small loop stick
antenna to see what that may do. I would agree that if you were at the
station your needle or meter should have been pegged. I really don't need
another project right now. :-)
Regards
Paul.

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Bill Riches <bill.riches at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi Stan,
>
> Now I am confused!!  I have an 857 and 80 - 6 screwdriver in my car.  Tuned
> it up on 3800, then looked at broadcast band - Distant stations 500 - 600
> khz were coming in aboug s9.  Heard 100khz about s1 - qth is 9 miles line
> of
> site from wildwood tower.  Drove to Wildwood and down to the old
> engineering
> station that has been abandoned and turned into a nature trail.  Drove out
> to Loran gate - 500 feet from tower sig was up to S9.  Thought it would be
> stronger. No one around but left my qsl card with a note -n "Call me, I
> have
> questions!" and my phone number in the gate access box.  Will see if I get
> a
> call.
>
> I have a Wellbrook 1010 loop at 20 feet and am getting a null at about 30
> degrees when receiving 100 khz.  I checked null on a Wildwood AM station on
> 1230 and it is at 135 degrees so I know the loop is working.
>
> When I approached the tower I thought I should have a real strong signal
> but
> it only went up to about s9.  I now think that Wildwood is not on the air
> and the increase in signal was being close to the 625 foot tower and it was
> acting as a passive repeater since it is resonant to 100 khz.  So what
> loran
> station could be on the air at about 30 degrees or so from Cape May Court
> House, NJ 39 05 N  74 51 W Tower is 38 57 N  74 52 W.  Mileage 9 miles and
> 185 deg from me.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Stan, W1LE
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 1:25 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Locked onto LORAN 8970 GRI Monday AM
>
> Hello Bill,
>
> I have no real idea. I can not DF at this time. Antenna is an omni.
>
> I suspect the FS700 receiver looks at GRI data and placement within the
> waveform and goes to a look up table in firmware to tell me the supposed
> location to the LORAN plan 10 years ago.
>
> Only thing that may be possible is the RX signal strengths are different
> for
> master and slave, so they may be physically separated or their TX RF is
> from
> one location at different power levels.
>
> It will be interesting what your contact at Wildwood (NJ) has to say.
>
> Stan, W1LE   Cape Cod
>
>
> On 2/5/2013 1:06 PM, Bill Riches wrote:
> > OK Stan,
> >
> > What stations are you receiving - not GRI numbers but locations!
> >
> > Bill Riches
> > Cape May
> >
> > -
>
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