On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:51:55 -0700, Richard Clark wrote:
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:12:14 -0000, Frnak McKenney
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and it stays that way for weeks. Or months.

A whip antenna should be able to sort out WWV for at least one of 1400
synchronizing events in a day. This may be a problem of too much
antenna at one time - and a nearby lightning event at that same time.
Your front end got fried out.

If you're reading these posts in the same order I'm posting, you'll
have already read my good news:

It's Working!

(Oh. That's right -- this is Usenet. Y'all can't here the
"doooonb"-ing from down the hall. Well, take my word for it -- or
even the MAC-II's display! grin)

This doesn't prove that the MAC-II's J-FET RF amplifier hasn't been
degraded through an... er, "very wideband RF overload" grin!, but
I think it does say that "completely fried" is unlikely (which
pleases me greatly! grin).

My earlier MAC-I had a nice whip built in, and could select the
strongest signal among (IIRC) 5, 10, and 15MHz, but it had the same
problems getting an "acceptable" WWV signal most of the time.


Frank
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