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do you mean KZ?
if so I just barely got it, ten minutes of trying to copy with my 150 hz cw filter.
In my station I have a printout of all the beacons listed copied in California. and so far all I have copied are on it. I will be quite excited if I copy one that is not.
I originally thought the MF was 373 in Medford, but I am confident in my receivers frequency accuracy. I have not however heard MF again, from either location. and certainly not in the daytime. Even MEF in Medford is usually weak here. I would love to have heard MF in Ohio, and maybe I did, but I wont assume until I log it again.
The transformer I use is a small 1.25 inch moly toroid, with 100 turns of 24 ga. magnet wire and 5 turns of 18 ga. insulated wire. The 5 turn winding is secondary and feeds my 50 ohm input directly. the 100 turn winding is fed by a 25 foot tall, 35 foot long inverted L, against ground.
A little surprised to hear ohio nearly 2400 miles from me. but I certainly got a positive ID.
My inverted L feeds the 50 ohm input of my receiver through a 20,000 ohm to 50 ohm isolation transformer. it really brings a lot more signal in than the loop in my shack
...teach kids how to solder any more?
Way back when, when I was manager of a tech department, we had a written test to filter out the chaff applicants. And boy was there a lot of chaff. Basic questions on how diodes and opamps work. Both 2 year tech and 4 year EEs often had troubles with these kinds of questions. Some schools worse than others, I will not name any, to protect the guilty.
I used to joke that I wanted to add another test, throw a (preferably hot) soldering iron at the applicant, and see which end they grab. HR would not allow this. Eventually we got bought by a major large corporation and their HR department made us completely stop giving tests. I guess they were unfair to the chaff.
