[time-nuts] wwvb weak on east coast especially when the pre-amps under water.
Magnus Danielson
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Mon May 14 19:33:14 UTC 2012
Paul.
On 05/14/2012 07:20 PM, paul swed wrote:
> Thanks everyone yesterday for your wwvb comment. I now know why the wwvb
> signal droped to -120db.
> Seems that over 4 years water slowly built up in the preamp housing. Water
> and rust do make fine conductors.
I had the same problem with a GPS antenna at work. Somebody had put the
manufactures label over the porus plug that should have vented out any
water... but it didn't so I had too high water-level inside the antenna.
Hope you get your amplifier operational again.
Cheers,
Magnus
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