Topband: Skimmer calibration

[Dan Edward Dba East edwards]

the gw8izr skimmer seems pretty good to me...dr1a also...both, better than average, IMHO
 a belgian one also ( can't remember the call..) couple in JA also..

73, w5xz, dan




On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 4:33 AM, Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:
 


When I last investigated, all the skimmers and Web SDRs that were outside
of North America all had terrible receive antennas for copying DX signals
on 160. (And who knows how many of them are in quiet locations?)

When I say "terrible", I mean small "magnetic" loops, very short whips, low
dipoles, a random end-fed wire, etc. No phased arrays or Beverages, and not
even a Flag, K9AY, EWE, etc.

Does anyone know if that is still the case?

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
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