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Offline vlfradio

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UPdated Desert beaconlist - Oct. 2012
« on: October 17, 2012, 1019 UTC »
Updated (partial) Desert PHifer Beacon List - October 2012 - v2.  :)

2025.16 kHz "Inyo Dark Ditter" 67 dits/minute.  Night-only, about 2 watts output
  to inv. vee on granite rock-pile. (s.w. USA in Calif.)

4096.24 "Hexie" 1 second-long dashes, 24/7, Joshua Tree NP, 400 mW
  on since Dec. 1997!

4097.25 "Inyo Whooper" daytime-only, about 90-chirping dashes/min.
   3/4 watts. First on April 2007

5205.3 "Sally" diter beacon in the Saline Valley, CA - east-facing
  solar-panel so mainly morning only (a daytimer). 1/2 watt.
  First on-air Feb. 2006

6626.3 "Rainy" - Mojave NP, CA - daytime ditter/chirper in
  Mojave NP, 1.5 watts, first on-air March 2003

6626.2 "Rocky" a "buzzer-beacon" located in Inyo, Co, CA
 with about 300 mW output - daytime only, first on-air Spring 2007

6700.5 "Hexy2k" Joshua Tree NP, 24/7, 100 mW to inv. vee, 150 mW
  first on-air 29 Dec. 1999

8193.75 "MarinDit" - 24/7 in Marin County, CA - about 80 dits/min.
  10-15 mW only - on-air since spring 2000 (an "attic beacon")

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DOA beacons due to battery failure in need of battery replacement

4096.1 "Coxie" - Joshua Tree NP - battery dead...
4096.6 "Kelsie" Mojave NP - battery dead...

Mysterious sudden disappearance:

4089 Death Valley Ditter "Scotty Beacon" suddenly QRT NOv. 2011

----------------- - 73 - v
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Re: UPdated Desert beaconlist - Oct. 2012
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2012, 1209 UTC »
Thanks for the update! I'll update the info on the wiki from this list.
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Re: UPdated Desert beaconlist - Oct. 2012
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2012, 1257 UTC »
Hi Chris,

You're very welcome! Your HFU site and apps/sorftware are EXCELLENT! Thank you! -v-
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Re: UPdated Desert beaconlist - Oct. 2012
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2012, 1317 UTC »
Now I know why I haven't heard the 4089 dasher...lol
GF
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Re: UPdated Desert beaconlist - Oct. 2012
« Reply #4 on: October 17, 2012, 1338 UTC »
yeah GF, I need to get there one day and hike up to its site and check out what happened (if the thing is still there).  ;) 73 - -v-
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