[time-nuts] FS700 antenna

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun May 6 06:38:35 UTC 2012


In message <4FA5CD62.3000309 at rubidium.dyndns.org>, Magnus Danielson writes:
>On 05/06/2012 02:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>>> it's the GRI 90070 Edje chain, but the FS700 won't find the stations.
>>
>> Try 74990M also
>
>Tried it, no luck.

Sounds like you need better antenna.

Try the HP5359A->scope-trigger on a DSO with big buffer (no more
than 3 usec/sample, preferably only 1usec/sample) and heavy averaging,
that should at least tell you if you have any signals at all.

>> GRI 80000 is very sensitive to any kind of CW on integral kHz frequencies
>> so you'll probably get pretty bad SNR.
>
>I did get lock on a single station on GRI 80000. However, it needed to 
>use much of its amplifier.

Sounds like weak antenna.


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