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

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 16:32:46 EST 2013


Still chugging along just fine. A real reference. None of these spinny
satellite things you can't see.
Regards
Paul

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:38 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes indeed. But the ole wwvb is keeping me pretty busy as is. If that was
> done it would be easy to build the loopstick up. I think I have an old wwvb
> loopstick and just need to change the tuning cap.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Bill Riches <bill.riches at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> come on Paul - you need another project!
>>
>> 73
>>
>> B
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
>> Behalf Of paul swed
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 9:30 PM
>> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Locked onto LORAN 8970 GRI Monday AM
>>
>> 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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