[Mgs] Radios

[David Ambrose]

Not totally useless. I understood them. I'm not a ham, but I did a lot 
of shortwave listening as a youth.

On 10/6/2021 4:04 AM, Richard Lindsay wrote:
> 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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