Tonight it is snowing again. The large coil is outside and connected to my antenna, but has little protection from precipitation. Although the weather is poor, radio propagation conditions on longwave tonight have been good. I have just completed a contact with Gerhard in Austria. The screen shot shows him calling me at the start. The other horizontal lines are sidebands from the LORAN-C navigational system on 100KHz. There are LORAN-C sites in coastal regions of northern Europe. We have to put up with its interference until the system is supersceded by GPS. The sound it makes is like a steam locomotive travelling at 100mph. To our advantage, however, these 'lines' give a useful indication of propagation conditions on 136KHz, and were strong and clear tonight; hence the possibility for my contact with Gerhard.
My signal was also picked up 745 kms away in Nuernberg, Germany !
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