[time-nuts] FS700 antenna

[Magnus Danielson]

Björn,

On 05/05/2012 10:38 PM, bg at lysator.liu.se wrote:
> I could probably have it hooked up to one of these
>
>       http://www.procom.dk/products/base-station-antennas/0-25-mhz/omnidirectional-antennas/bcl-1-ka

Hmm.. :)

> You do not want to loan your new toy away for a few weeks? ;-)

Not until I given it a real try. :)

I now see that I *do* get strong LORAN-C style signal, and it looks like 
it's the GRI 90070 Edje chain, but the FS700 won't find the stations.

> Btw does the FS700 receive the Russian Chayka signals? I think there is a
> Russian station at about the same distance as the closest Norwegian Loran
> station from Stockholm. Also the path from Norway is pure land, from
> Russia it is mostly water.

The FS700 manual doesn't say Chayka signals, but it lists these chains 
alongside the LORAN-C chains so I guess "Western Russia" at GRI 80000 is 
the one to look for.

I have not grabbed a good pulse-train to make qualitative measures.

It seems to do something useful at least, it just doesn't lock up 
properly just yet. Maybe the learning curve and some tweaking.

Cheers,
Magnus