[time-nuts] WWVB antennas

Brian Lloyd brian at lloyd.com
Sat Feb 22 12:23:54 EST 2014



On 2/21/14, 2:21 PM, Robert Roehrig wrote:
> John Forster said: 
> 
> "WWVB is hard to detect w/ a 3-foot diameter HP shielded loop w/ integral
> preamp & 2 stages of mechanical filters. (HP 117A). The other half of the
> time it was undetectable. Paul S uses a loop that is much larger."
> 
> I am near Chicago and I have 2 60 kHz antennas. One is a ferrite
> rod type and the other a 5  foot diameter loop. Both are tuned 
> and feed identical 2 transistor preamp. The loop does work better.

I am in San Antonio, TX, and I use a Pixelsat untuned loop. It receives
WWVB just fine. It also receives pretty much everything from DC-20MHz
just fine.

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Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL
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