[time-nuts] LORAN-C antenna

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Nov 13 15:54:21 UTC 2007


In message <4739C7BA.9070602 at verizon.net>, Dan Rae writes:

>I filled a ferrite rod (from an old BC receiver) with a bifilar winding 
>of wire wrap wire, parallel C to resonate at 100 kHz and the center tap 
>grounded.

For Loran-C too much resonance is not a good thing, so make sure you
keep Q reasonably low.


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