April 2009 Recordings of Time signal from Guayaquil, Equador. 3810KHz. This has been reported as off air, but is now on again. It transmits LSB with inserted carrier so a receiver set on CW will pickup the 1KHz time pips on 3.809KHz. These pips are often audible in the morning when the band is quieter. The pips and announcements are heard on AM/LSB with good conditions.
I am comparing horizontal antenna (60Ft end fed at 30ft) with an elevated (13ft with two radials) Butternut vertical resonant at 3810. As they are different systems the actual signal strengths can not be compared but any variations between the two antennas should be seen. I have adjusted the charts so the two signals are superimposed, any relative variation will show as the trace splits. So far the difference has been in noise level, on a few occasions the level on the vertical has dropped around dawn. At the end of this month I am trying a 12' whip, signals and S/N are lower.
