YES NOPE9 wrote:
>> On Aug 15, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>>
>> Sean Breheny wrote:
>>    =20
>>> In Lexington, MA I also find that CHU is stronger than WWV, although
>>> on 5MHz I can usually get both WWV and WWVH (Hawaii - albeit faintly
>>> in the background).
>>>      =20
>> Here in Littleton (three towns north, 2000 miles from Boulder) the =20
>> WWVB
>> clocks only pick up the signal at night.  I don't know how good the
>> receivers in these clocks are, but of the three I know of around =20
>> here none
>> of them gets the signal during the day and all of them get it reliably
>> overnight.  According to the NIST WWVB coverage map, we're right on =20
>> the
>> edge.
>>
>>
>>    =20
> What kind of antennas are being used ?
> Gus
>  =20
The antennas are ferrite-loop design, similar to those used on AM=20
radios, but at a very low frequency, so the
amount of wire used is great and the ferrite TYPE is different.

BTW, I drove around the neighborhood and I believe I've discovered the=20
reason(s) it probably won't work:

600 meters away was a cellular phone tower.

1000 meters away was the county police-band radio antennas, on 4 500'=20
steel towers. These are VERY powerful radiators.

--Bob A

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