What sort of noise environment do you live in?
Urban?
Suburban?
Rural?
Quiet rural?
If you are at the bottom end of the scale (lucky you!) then there
won't be much of a change and you'll be limited by galactic noise
(see the VK1OD graphs).
If you can hear the antenna (ambient) noise increase then you have a
low enough noise figure to hear signals in your environment.
No locals to recruit for a 10m QSO?
On Sep 6, 2007, at 4:22 PM, john ferro wrote:
it seems like the level comes up a bit but not much - could be
quite band conditions.
From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] delta 580 on 10 meters?
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:13:02 -0500
John,
The definitive test is to listen with radio on, antenna off, then
plug in
the antenna. Noise level of the radio should change. Try right
around
local noon or sunset, and you may find some signals.
Stuart
K5KVH
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