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Re: Topband: DX Conditions

To: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: DX Conditions
From: Don Kirk <wd8dsb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:06:22 -0500
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Hi Mike,

As far as I know the RBN receivers are not related at all to the websdr.com
receivers.

Don wd8dsb

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 5:12 PM Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Don es Roger,
>
> Can I assume these RBN SDRs are also on websdr.com? If so, which ones?
> That
> is, what are they called, so we can listen to the right ones?
>
> I no longer have any antennas.
>
> 73 Mike
> W0BTU
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 3:54 PM Don Kirk <wd8dsb@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I know 3 RBN reporting receivers  located in New Hampshire use very good
> RX
> > antennas and they are as follows based on 2020 information I obtained
> from
> > the owner of these receivers.
> >
> > 200m-long Beverage to EU
> > 23' high active Hi-Z vertical
> >
> > So yes, very good RX antennas on some of the East Coast RBN receivers.
> >
> > Just FYI,
> > Don wd8dsb
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM Roger Kennedy <
> > roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Fine about the RBN Receiving Sites further West . . . I wondered if
> that
> > > was
> > > the case.
> > >
> > > I guess the East Coast US RBN stations that give us Europeans really
> good
> > > reports - more than 30dB above the noise when the band is open - must
> > also
> > > have good receiving antennas.
> >
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