[RFI] portable flag tra king RFI

[N4ZR]

Hi Don - thanks for all your hand-holding.  Finished mine today and it 
works fine.  I used 1" PVC pipe for the arms, and screwed them to either 
side of a 1X6.  I figured the 3/4" offset wouldn't matter, and it 
appears I was right.  With the MTM Scientific W7IUV preamp and a TECSUN 
PL-880 receiver, it easily picked up the 5-8 MHz, every-50-KHz signal 
I've been trying to find, and localized it (by ear) to within about 20 
degrees of arc.  Tomorrow I'm going on the road to triangulate it and 
move in.

I'm really curious to see what it is.  It looks like this:


As you can see, it's not deafening, and I was a little worried that the 
flag+RX sensitivity might not be enough, even with the preamp, but there 
is plenty of signal.


-- 
73, Pete N4ZR
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