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F5VLB

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Re: Using the Earth as an Antenna
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2025, 1109 UTC »
About earth probes antenna .... As I always say, if you don't try, you'll never know. I tried it ten years ago, and I have a Facebook group on the subject (with nearly 2,000 members). It works! I've done, among other things, Oklahoma from the tip of Brittany, with 300mW in WSPR, Great Britain, Italy, Germany at 8.25kHz, and many other tests, and each time it's confirmed! Now I use my underground antennas for other measurements, but in parallel, I'm also doing tests with ferrites, also with good results. Come to https://www.facebook.com/groups/earthprobes and https://www.facebook.com/groups/ferriterodtxrxantenna and welcome to the madhouse!
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Re: Using the Earth as an Antenna? Talked about that on HAM!
« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2025, 1631 UTC »
Huh.... We were discussing that locally on 10M SSB over the weekend. And, I seem to remember CQ magazine, (Or, was it Popular Communications?), covering a story, where around 1900, an experimenter in Belmont, NY was listening to sound signals from a ground rod. This dude believed that he was hearing industrial noises from Hornell, NY. What's there??? A train refurbishing facility, for one. Now, Alstom Transportation, Inc. (I contracted to work there in 2005, for 8 months, for the MARTA, WMATA, NJ Transit, NYC's R160, and a couple others.) Now, let's see if I can find that article. It was a fascinating read. 
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Re: Using the Earth as an Antenna? Here's a site about that!
« Reply #17 on: November 05, 2025, 1755 UTC »
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The best two statements of advice that I've ever gotten are from my brother-in-law in the early 1990's. 1st one, when I bought a used '89 Olds Cutless, my bro-in-law said, "Congratulations!!! You've just bought a deficit!". The other, was on a work environment, " No matter where you go, it's going to be f***'ed -up!". No truer words have been spoken.
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