On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Falcon Wireless Tech Support - KF4HAZ wrote:

> Well my location is 673'AMSL + 160' tower with an excellent HAAT (Height 
> Above Average Terrain) I am located "out in the woods" away from most 
> sources of qrm (except my own) My grounding system consists of a ground 
> ring + 660' of 1" galvanized pipe running to the pumphouse, where it is 
> always wet. MW ant consists of 600' of 2 - 8 ga. conductors spaced 8" 
> apart on poles running southward (was used to power pump before we ran 
> underground cable to it) This is roughly a 1/8 wave antenna (@ 198kc) 
> worked against ground. Have picked up signals as low as 125kc on an ICOM 
> 735 transceiver.

That explains a lot. You have a regular radio center there ;-) Did you 
tune the antenna or just impedance match it (presumably by transmitting on 
a nearby ham band) ? Just curious. My dx receive attempts used ferrite 
antennas (several, link coupled and tuned), tuned ferrite coupled with 
tuned loop, and loop (tuned and not tuned). Untuned preamplified loops are 
really useless in qrm conditions at lw. The largest loop I used was 4 x 
2.5 meters about 10 turns (tapped at each turn) (using an existing wall in 
a brick house). if the wall points in the right direction and the tuning 
and tapping are right then the results can be interesting.

Peter
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