Re: [IRCA] Possible PL-606 LW reception on barbed wire fence?

[Tim Hills <thills@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen:

There was a clear difference in the 404, cleaned some of the wax out of 
my ears when the level came up. Odd resonances can happen in almost 
anything, groundwave from MOG could be lining up just right to focus it 
there. Be interesting to go back when the soil is dryer or wetter to see 
if you get the same results in the same spot.

It was just the fence resonating, no other equipment. It's only happened 
once and I've checked again several times. Could be Iron and Zinc oxides 
at the point(s) of contact acting as a rectifier/detector. Very cold, no 
wind and very quiet that night. Just the right place at the right time I 
guess. The toaster I inherited from my mother. When I was a 5 or 6 a Ham 
down the street used to come through quite loud on it. I thought Donald 
Duck was trapped in there at first :P

An FSL is on my to-do list but there's a few projects I need to tend to 
first.

73

Tim Hills
Sioux Falls, SD

On 12/3/2011 14:56, Stephen Airy wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> Well if you'll listen to the 404-MOG comparison, that'll give you an 
> idea of the performance of this fence antenna.  That recording is the 
> NDB received barefoot, then with the radio on the fence.  To my ear, 
> there's quite a difference.
> Also I've noticed that not the entire fence works - just a specific 
> section at a specific level.  I just happened to discover it 
> accidentally. :)
> So when you heard Neil on your fence, what radio were you using?  Or 
> was the fence itself demodulating the AM signal and acting as a 
> speaker of sorts? :o ;)
> I've heard AM signals on other devices as well, too.  When I was at my 
> grandpa's memorial service a year ago in his back yard, I could hear 
> two Asian-language stations in the speakers for the audio system.  
> (The 50kW station on 1430 is 1/3 mile to the northwest, along with a 
> 23kW diplexing with them on 1300.)  Recently I was near 50kW 1170 
> KCBQ's transmitter site attempting to record a few things with some 
> radios, and noticed that if I held my audio cable right, I could 
> clearly and loudly hear KCBQ's audio on my Zoom H2n recorder (with no 
> trace of 5kW 910 KECR which uses the same antenna farm).  If I touched 
> one end of my audio cable to the metal sheath (on this one - most are 
> wood) encasing the grounding wire on the utility pole, it just about 
> blew my eardrums out.
> 73, Stephen
> One of these days I should see about building a small FSL.  I could 
> probably only afford to spend $20-$40 for one for now, though, so Gary 
> DeBock's "affordable" FSL is still way out of reach for me.  Even 
> something inexpensive and small should be a huge improvement over the 
> stock antenna in my PL-606, I'd think (even more so than the fence 
> I've been using).

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