Okay, strange scenario. I used to fox hunt WAY back in the early to mid-90s. Always used a beam antenna with AGC voltage and volt meter, never used an S-meter or attenuators. Pretty much always won the fox hunts one month and then the next month I had to be the fox. Now after not having done anything with amateur radio for the past 30 years, or for that matter as well, electronics, I have come across something rather intriguing.
A real fox. A real illegal radio station, in this case FM(88-108Mhz) in the local area. I love the station, and don't want it taken down, but I am curious to find out where it is broadcasting from. i have my old setup still laying around, except for the fact the radio never picked up the FM broadcast band, only the ham bands.
I have a cell phone, old one, which will allow me to listen to FM radio, using the headphone cable as the antenna. I know the car radio will pick up the radio station further away than the headphone cable antenna will, I've already tried it. I'm thinking about trying to swipe out the cable on the beam antenna and hooking it straight to the headphone jack. Which way would I have to hook it up to get it to correct. I'm not looking right now for close in work, rather I want to go to the edge of the signal and grab the direction and get simple triangulation to the area where the signal is.
How would I hook the shield versus the main cable up to the headphone jack? I believe, from the VERY old days, that it should matter as to which way I would hook it up, but for the life of me...it's been too long ago, I don't remember which is the correct way. Maybe I'm wrong and it doesn't matter. Don't remember that kind of stuff anymore. I've been away too long.
A real fox. A real illegal radio station, in this case FM(88-108Mhz) in the local area. I love the station, and don't want it taken down, but I am curious to find out where it is broadcasting from. i have my old setup still laying around, except for the fact the radio never picked up the FM broadcast band, only the ham bands.
I have a cell phone, old one, which will allow me to listen to FM radio, using the headphone cable as the antenna. I know the car radio will pick up the radio station further away than the headphone cable antenna will, I've already tried it. I'm thinking about trying to swipe out the cable on the beam antenna and hooking it straight to the headphone jack. Which way would I have to hook it up to get it to correct. I'm not looking right now for close in work, rather I want to go to the edge of the signal and grab the direction and get simple triangulation to the area where the signal is.
How would I hook the shield versus the main cable up to the headphone jack? I believe, from the VERY old days, that it should matter as to which way I would hook it up, but for the life of me...it's been too long ago, I don't remember which is the correct way. Maybe I'm wrong and it doesn't matter. Don't remember that kind of stuff anymore. I've been away too long.
