Sunday, August 8, 2010

My NDB chasing station

Kinda got into a lull for a year when I moved to an apartment complex and got away from the NDB chasing for the duration. Now that I'm out of there and have more radio freedom I have jumped back into the frequencies way down low. Went to the Rochester hamfest and walked away with a steal. Yaesu Musen FRG-7 modified by Radio West to cover 10 to 599Khz, added in 3 rockwell collins mechanical filters and gave the radio a much needed digital display. Appears they did an audio mod also to give it an extra punch. I believe it's quite a steal at $140....
Right now all I have out is 100 or so feet of wire, but for this season it's doing GREAT! should be even better when my new antenna arrives, decided to plunk down some $$ for a nice active antenna that I can get away from some of the ever present noise. After looking around I opted for the LF Engineering L-400 LF/VLF Active antenna :

http://www.lfengineering.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LF&Product_Code=012&Category_Code=LFP

So hopefully soon I can give this thing some rave reviews! such as this one:
http://www.lfengineering.com/pdf/Monitoring%20Times%20L-400B.pdf


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