WW project is complete

[beaconman]

WW 4078.1kHz  is now placed right at the base of the antenna...(center loaded mobile whip)
all tests demonstrate that the antenna and beacon should perform well this fall and winter.

Pictures can be found on the web site:
http://highfrequencybeaconsociety.bravehost.com 

Most of the beacons have the basic dipole and Half Wave end fed
inverted L antennas.

Very few hams have ever operated milliwatts into a center loaded whip on 75/80meters
so the WW beacon will prove to be interesting.  All credit would go to the listener on the other end.
It takes a very good SWL to copy a beacon such as this...the average ham cant hear
anything that isn't s9  or 50 micro volts at his antenna terminal....

So SWLs have fun this winter...
P.S. when WW was hooked to a inverted L it was heard all over the United States...

[beaconman]

A listener in Elgin, Ore reported hearing WW at
1145Utc up through 1358utc even with unusal static...
freq is 4078.25Khz...

WW will be on from 0300 -1400 daily...

[Tube Shortwave]

the average ham cant hear
anything that isn't s9  or 50 micro volts at his antenna terminal....

What did you expect from an appliance operator?  The average ham doesn't even know their electrical field from the magnetic field.  Not to mention a resistor from an inductor.  Or, how to build a fixed value antenna matching network.  It is disgusting.

Amateurs as a group are no longer the radio experts that we all could depend on.  They're typically just an out-of-shape joke.  Physically and mentally. 

Somewhere along the way, someone decided that memorizing test answers qualifies one as a radio 'expert'.  That is like saying that giving one, who has never driven, a driver's license makes them an expert driver.

Someone who cannot solder or troubleshoot an RF circuit is now able to memorize some test answers and achieve the rank of 'extra'.  Actually 'earn' the rank?  Perish the thought.

I'll dismount my soapbox now.