[time-nuts] Active LORAN antenna

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf at omen.com
Fri Aug 26 22:17:21 UTC 2011


Try to get a DA-100 with a socket for the FET along with some spare FETs.
The FETs are very hard to get but a sub will work if strong local 
signals are absent.

On 08/26/2011 02:46 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote:
> Hi Poul:
>
> You're correct.
> The noise floor for the AMRAD unit is caused by line conducted noise, 
> not the background noise coming from the whip.
> The DA-100 seems to have filtered out the line noise so you do see the 
> background.
> I live in a jungle (forrest?) so there's not as much noise as in a city.
>
> Have Fun,
>
> Brooke Clarke
> http://www.PRC68.com
> http://www.End2PartyGovernment.com/
>
>
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message<4E580972.6080103 at pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke writes:
>>
>>> It looks like the noise floor is maybe 10 dB higher than the AMRAD
>>> http://www.prc68.com/I/Images/AMRAD_BT.GIF
>>>
>>> or 30 dB higher than the McKay Dymec active antenna.
>>> http://www.prc68.com/I/Images/Da100nf.GIF
>> If you are basing that claim on the SA plot in my blog-post, you
>> instantly win the "inappropriate apple-oranges comparison price of
>> the year"
>>
>> First there is nothing even remotely close to a natural noise-floor
>> in the LW broadcast band in the middle of a city here in Denmark,
>> there is far too much EMI from switchmodes etc etc.
>>
>> Second, there is a significant impedance mismatch between the antenna
>> and my SA in that plot.   I backhaul the signal over a balanced
>> twinax cable (78Z I belive) and crank it up for the LORAN-C receiver
>> in the matching balun, so the feed impedance is way higher than 50Z
>>
>> Mind you, I don't dispute that you may be right, I just don't think
>> you have data to back up your claim...
>>
>>
>
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