[time-nuts] anyone built a replacement antenna for a Spectracom 8170?

John Ackermann N8UR jra at febo.com
Wed Mar 26 13:36:35 EDT 2008


I've used my Spectracom WWVB receivers with an active LF antenna (the
AMRAD design) with very good results.  At least here in Ohio, and after
the WWVB ERP upgrade, it doesn't seem to take much of a wet noodle to
get a good signal.

John
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Scott Burris said the following on 03/26/2008 12:45 PM:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm finally getting around to trying to get a Spectracom 8170 WWVB
> receiver doing something useful.
> Unfortunately, I only have the unit, not the antenna/preamp.
> 
> Anyone built a replacement antenna for this?  Could this be made to work with
> a commercial ferrite core antenna, maybe something like
> 
> http://www.c-max-time.com/products/showProduct.php?id=18
> 
> with a little preamp circuit of some sort run off the 12v supplied by the 8170?
> 
> If someone has already built something like this and could point me to
> a schematic, that would be much appreciated.  Otherwise I guess I'll roll
> something of my own.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
> 
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