[UK-CONTEST] RX performance

[Ken Eastty]

Unless I've missed it no one appears to have  mentioned that noise 
blankers frequently degrade the strong signal handling performance of 
some receivers, it's always worth switching the NB off as well as 
attenuators on to see whether this reduces the unwanted effects that 
very strong signals have.
Speaking of strong signals the 'Cobra Mist' OTHR built out on the 
Suffolk coast in the ~1970's had a very large array of log periodics 
which I think were far more impressive than the 'very large antenna'. 
The transmitter was reputed to have an O/P power of 10MW, some years ago 
I went inside the transmitter building which then housed a BBC world 
service 100kW (?) medium wave TX, this just occupied one small corner of 
the building. It was said that when Cobra Mist was operating Notices to 
Mariners warned that ships venturing closer than 3 miles to the 
installation might find that their rigging would catch fire!
Of course this might have been a ploy to keep the Russian 'trawlers' 
away, apparently it didn't work.

73...

Ken

G3LVP