Our mission at ClearSkyRF is to provide a low-threshold experimental environment that unleashes new forms of creativity and scientific insight.
Using what’s at hand and making the most of your surroundings is critical to gaining quick insights without the high price tag associated with formal experimentation.
In this series, I share documentation from my past experiments — hopefully to spark ideas and conversations.
Radio gear can be cumbersome, and gathering signals takes time. Setting up some quick experiments while traveling is often an interesting challenge.
Once, I had a series of meetings in Silicon Valley. We stayed in Santa Cruz, CA, and I found a spot with tall trees and railroad tracks, which provided perfect grounding. A vertical antenna is a no-brainer.
Here’s a way to get a 160m signal… I could only get this level of signal when running solely on laptop battery power, as any other piece of electronics produced too much noise on low bands.
It was also good for picking up the 60kHz VLF signal from WWVB:
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