On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:06:23 GMT, Telamon
wrote:

In article ,
Albert P. Belle Isle wrote:

Two French-language stations coming in at DEC142200EST/DEC150300Z:

162kHz France Inter, Paris; and
183kHz Europe One, Saarbrucken.


Hi Albert. So what combination of receiver and antenna are you using to
pick these up on the LW band? Just barely getting them or are they
easily intelligible?

How are all your antennas handling the snow?

Hi, Telemon.

I was using an RX340 fed from one of LF Engineering's E-field probe
active antennas mounted on my roof. With my home-brew inside loop plus
preamp I was barely able to tell that "something" was there, even with
the lower noise level.

At this location, they were far from "easy listening" and just
identifiable.

My antennas have generally not had a problem with the snow in years
past. I deliberately built my 45ft T2FD with the softer dark-gray PVC
pipe for the spreaders. When snowloaded it just sags and then springs
back when unloaded. The commercial antennas have faired well without
such gymnastics.

This year: so far, so good.




Good listening,
Al
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Location: 42N39, 71W09 (Near Boston, MA)
HF Antennas: 65ft TFD, 45ft T2FD, 28ft vertical, 65ft doublet
HF Receivers: Ten-Tec RX340, RX320, Harris R2368, Cubic R3030A
Decoders: Code300-32, Universal M-8000, PK-232MBX/DSP
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