Tony1951

Yes - it works. I just connected to it and had a look around.

You might want to do some antenna experiments. You seem to have some noise there and the vertical is pretty deaf on LF and MF where I have tried it.

I got some real improvements on my antenna by laying out a loop on the ground which was easy and effective. I made a simple isolation balun with a ferrite ring and 2 turns on the primary winding at the RX end and six turns on the secondary at the loop end. This antenna killed a lot of noise that I had before and has been FAR more sensitive than I ever thought it could be. The wire is just varnished copper, magnet wire and cost about a fiver.

I first saw this antenna idea on a page run by G8JNJ. His is amplfied. Mine is not. I thought, 'That can never work,' after about forty years of trying to put antennas as high as I could to make them work. Was I wrong!

I have about 40 meters of 28 swg wire in a rectangle with one side of it running along a hedge about a meter off the ground and the other three sides either lying on top of the gravel or slightly covered by gravel. I've been really pleased by how well it works. When I first got mykiwi I had it on a long wire about 18 feet off the ground and although I had bigger signals, the snr was FAR worse than what I get now. On 5649 khs, I can hear the planes transmitting back to Shanwick from 30 west which is mid Atlantic. You can get great performance out of a square of wire fifteen feet by fifteen feet, as long as you make a simple transformer to match the impedance of the loop to the 50ohm or so that the rx expects to see.

Try tuning 5505khz usb for Shannon Volmet. It broadcasts continually and should be a big signal during morning and early afternoon. It fades heavily as darkness comes in. I use that one and 198KHZ AM to evaluate my different antenna experiments.

Experimenting with antennas using the dbmw signal gauge on the KIWI to evaluate performance is a great way to test how the antennas are working.

Take a spin here on my loop on the ground with no pre-amp. I still get a pile of noise around 18-25 mhz druing the day from a my neighbours plasma tv, but the LF end of things and 40 meters are clean enough.

http://ne499lr.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/

There is often only one radio slot available because I am doing wspr decoding on the kiwi as well. If it doesn't connect, just look in later.

Good luck in your experiments.

Tony