[time-nuts] LORAN-C antenna

[Daun Yeagley]

Didier, that ought to be just about in your back yard!! I did some consulting
for one of the Dothan TV stations last year (what's amazing is that the
transmitter is actually in Florida!). Anyway, on my way there from a military
reunion in Texas, we stopped in Shalimar to visit my old roommate that didn't
make the reunion. If I had known then where you live, I would have stopped by to
see you... He's probably about a mile from your place!

Daun 

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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:59 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] LORAN-C antenna

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DJ,
Actually, you are closest to the Malone, FL LORAN, about 30 miles due
south of Dothan, AL. They run 800kW into a 700 foot monopole array. For
more info see http://www.uscg.mil/d8/lorstamalone/default.asp .

--Mike Niswonger, W4CMN

Didier Juges wrote:
> Speaking of Loran, I have an old Loran receiver (origin forgotten) and no
> antenna. 
>
> Is it possible to build a Loran antenna?
>
> I understand Loran uses narrow pulses of 100 kHz, so the antenna must have
> sufficient bandwidth to let the front edge of the pulse go undistorted. On
> the other hand, there are lots of spurious signals at these frequencies, so
> some selectivity is probably necessary. I am not sure what design would be
> best. I have made ferrite bar antennas for other long-wave reception, but it
> was narrow band, so I am not sure these designs would work.
>
> I live on the Gulf coast of North-West Florida, and therefore I believe I am
> not too far from a Loran station, so I probably do not need extreme
> sensitivity.
>
> Any suggestion welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Didier KO4BB
>
>
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