[Mgs] Radios

[Richard Lindsay]

Yes friends, my words copied below are all but totally useless in this
circle of MG people, but sometimes talk of radios, frequencies and antennas
overcomes ham radio guys like me and we spew mostly useless and irrelevant
information. Please forgive.

Rick WD4KIB, General Class ...and two MGs

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021, 5:17 AM Richard Lindsay <richardolindsay at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > ...the LW band wouldn't have
> broadcasting in the US
> > ... you might be able to pick up some LW band] signals.
> >
> > Steve West-Fisher
> > N4IK
>
> ...especially at night, if any entity is still using the LW band. Wiki
> says, "*The frequency for longwave range from 30KHz to 279 KHz , covering
> a median wavelength of 150 meters.*" That's really low frequency.
>    The antenna in one's mobile phone is only a few millimeters long, or if
> a tuned dipole, 3"-6" depending upon the mobile phone band being used.
> Broadcast FM radio dipole antennas tune at about 4 feet long. We've all
> seen those kinds of antennas in some cars' windshield glass. A dipole
> antenna for 30KHz, the very bottom of the LW band, is 15,600 feet long!
>
> Rick
> WD4KIB
>
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