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| The red dots show where the wire to my far earth rod goes - under the snow! |
This afternoon I've installed a coax cable from my operating shack down to the back of the garage where I do my radio building and where I can connect to the earth-electrode antenna running down the back garden. Now I have my 472kHz transverter in the garage too so it can connect directly into the earth-electrode antenna without any matching. Even with 8cm of snow on the ground and
nothing of the antenna visible above the snow line (!) this antenna is still radiating a decent signal with reports already this afternoon from G3ZJO (-22dB S/N) and G3XDV (-12dB S/N) at good range. I find it truly amazing this system works at all.
I am signing
G3XBM/1 on the WSPR database to distinguish my signal from that transmitted using a Marconi where I use G3XBM. I hope no-one minds me using this suffix for a short period, but it is very much in the interests of good research. The signal level with G3XDV at 61km is about 8dB weaker on the earth-electrode antenna than on the vertical Marconi.
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