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Using 30ft of wire, square, in a Wellbrook ALA100, I get a whopping
120mVpp. It's much higher than I would have guessed. [Yes, the scope was put in the 50 ohm position.] The signal is dominated by a local BCB station at 740Khz, with a bit of 810KHz as well. I cranked the time down way slow to get a fat band on the CRT to check the Vpp. It's the occasional superpositon of sine waves that makes the vpp so high. I have a selective level meter that I can try to use some other time to see the energy at each frequency. I got it in a bid lot years ago (I wanted something else in the lot), so I don't even know if it works. [I fact I got two and gave one away to save space!] I'd have to run a signal generator into it and see if it is trustworthy. Anyway, that should give you a starting point. It's kind of obvious now why the 7030 switches in some sort of filter once you go about the BCB (technically the old US BCB, before it was extended.] The signal levels above AM BCB must be at least an order of magnitude lower, maybe more. If BCB is not in your target, I'd suggest a high pass filter before your amplifier. Unless you have a spectrum analyzer handy, you might want to consider getting a selective level meter for your project, if only to very your measurements. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW They don't go for much money since they supply is huge. They were used in telco years ago but are not required anymore (different technology or something like that.) |
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