HF VOLMET

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i have just moved house and put a 60 ft long wire from house to bottom of garden....wire is going from east to west...just like it was before i moved....i did used to pick up ametures , and air band , volmets but canot hear anything ...i know there canot be mutch wrong because i can pick up the shortwave radio stations on am.....can someone tell me what volmets are easy to pick up so that i can test the radio on[ usb lsb ] please can you tell me what most shortwave listiners tune into.....
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Bit of activity on 40m amateur band tonight 7.130 sideband Moscow and Russia with some big signals
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Ur5by9 wrote: 06 Feb 2018, 19:35 Bit of activity on 40m amateur band tonight 7.130 sideband Moscow and Russia with some big signals
thanks for that ....i am picking them up but with a lot of noise could be the wire i have got up it is only tempary ...
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Easiest one is RAF Volmet on 5450khz or Shannon Volmet 5505khz,although this one has been a bit sporadic lately.
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Could be a new noise source nearby. I've just got a new one popped up that puts a picket-fence of spikes from about 250 KHz to 400 KHz. It only comes on at night but it's still a !£$%^&*£$! pain.
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this is a bl-.,,dy night mare picking up RAF Volmet on 5450khz but with a lot off interferance.....the only thing i can pick up to listen to with some good audio are the am frequencies. verry flustrating...
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Make a loop aerial, Gerald. When I changed from wires to a Wellbrook loop, most of my noise problems vanished.
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Andy wrote: 09 Feb 2018, 10:55 Make a loop aerial, Gerald. When I changed from wires to a Wellbrook loop, most of my noise problems vanished.
do you know the dimentions to make one please.
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gerald123 wrote: 09 Feb 2018, 22:07
Andy wrote: 09 Feb 2018, 10:55 Make a loop aerial, Gerald. When I changed from wires to a Wellbrook loop, most of my noise problems vanished.
do you know the dimentions to make one please.
It's not critical, about 1m dia will do. A single turn with the ends connected to a simple PA1M-type amplifier and you are away. Mount it well away from the house and rotate it for minimum noise.

http://www.pa1m.nl/pa1m/simple-active-receive-loop/
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Andy wrote: 10 Feb 2018, 00:34
gerald123 wrote: 09 Feb 2018, 22:07
Andy wrote: 09 Feb 2018, 10:55 Make a loop aerial, Gerald. When I changed from wires to a Wellbrook loop, most of my noise problems vanished.
do you know the dimentions to make one please.
It's not critical, about 1m dia will do. A single turn with the ends connected to a simple PA1M-type amplifier and you are away. Mount it well away from the house and rotate it for minimum noise.

http://www.pa1m.nl/pa1m/simple-active-receive-loop/
thanks for that Andy ...and the link. will have a go at making the loop .and let you know how it does.
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gerald123 wrote: 06 Feb 2018, 19:18 i have just moved house and put a 60 ft long wire from house to bottom of garden....wire is going from east to west...just like it was before i moved....i did used to pick up ametures , and air band , volmets but canot hear anything ...i know there canot be mutch wrong because i can pick up the shortwave radio stations on am.....can someone tell me what volmets are easy to pick up so that i can test the radio on[ usb lsb ] please can you tell me what most shortwave listiners tune into.....
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I have most of the HF volmet freqencies programmed into my portable HF reciever. i can't tell you exact freqencies [bad memory to to age] but they're all online, google it. i can tell you Gander In Canada comes across very well here in the uk from like 12am till 6am. around 6.628usb. also around 4mhz. shanwick in ireland booms across around 5.4mhz most days. with a 60 foot wire you should do reasonable well assuming you "noise" floor is'nt to high.
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Anyone know where to Find out whats the problem with RAF Volmet Military 1, been silent for last couple of days on both Frequencies..
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You could email the MOD and ask them.
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26mb04 wrote: 24 Mar 2020, 11:03 You could email the MOD and ask them.
I don't think the MOD run it though. I have a feeling its Babcock.
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Full scale here on 5450khz, but St. Eval is only about 100 miles away from my home QTH as the crow flies.
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