[time-nuts] wwvb weak on east coast especially when the pre-amps under water.

[paul swed]

Magnus
Yes indeed will be working tonight. At least the preamp.Need to figure out
what was leaking yet. A bit messy but no real damage and it uses nothing
but simple parts.
It also allowed water into the coax so will need to chop 3ft off and put a
new connector on. Minor stuff.
Regards
Paul.

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Magnus Danielson <
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Paul.
>
>
> On 05/14/2012 07:20 PM, paul swed wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone yesterday for your wwvb comment. I now know why the wwvb
>> signal droped to -120db.
>> Seems that over 4 years water slowly built up in the preamp housing. Water
>> and rust do make fine conductors.
>>
>
> I had the same problem with a GPS antenna at work. Somebody had put the
> manufactures label over the porus plug that should have vented out any
> water... but it didn't so I had too high water-level inside the antenna.
>
> Hope you get your amplifier operational again.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
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