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Offline zeak

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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #60 on: November 07, 2022, 2320 UTC »
Nice Signal!! At 0314Z

569 to 589

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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #61 on: November 07, 2022, 2339 UTC »
My error on the time!! Your beacon first heard a 2300Z with 569-589.
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #62 on: November 08, 2022, 0254 UTC »
Quote from: zeak on November 07, 2022, 2339 UTC
My error on the time!! Your beacon first heard a 2300Z with 569-589.

You should see if you are able to edit your own posts so as to not have to post again. Also, unless I have received a beacon at a substantially different time I just let the time stamp on the message serve as the defining time.

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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #63 on: November 18, 2022, 1423 UTC »
With shorter daylight hours I've logged DW's battery voltage trending to 12.7 volts in the hour before sunrise. I've also seen the PV numbers peaking above 2 Amps.
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #64 on: November 20, 2022, 0303 UTC »
4095.650
2050 Hearing the whoops only, no CW.

Nothing really on the waterfall.  First time reception!! SW MI
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #65 on: December 06, 2022, 0242 UTC »
Heard again tonight around 0230 Clearer this time.
No CW heard. Some heard 0300    Vid / Audio clip linked. Notched out data or navtex on 4097ish.
Thanks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qVuwMVK846iWgr8OE3Q3NcFcCXaV4gSy/view?usp=share_link
« Last Edit: December 06, 2022, 0257 UTC by Paul Turkk »
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #66 on: January 02, 2023, 1826 UTC »
DW was hungry this morning! Around 9 AM I copied a couple of telemetry reports with voltage and current (PV) numbers over 2.2 Amps
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #67 on: February 21, 2023, 1504 UTC »
Quote from: Desert Whooper on August 22, 2021, 2154 UTC
DW was officially deployed to the Western desert on February 21, 2021.

Happy 2nd Birthday!
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #68 on: March 10, 2023, 1607 UTC »
I copied the DW beacon early this morning in Oklahoma City EM15.

10/Mar/2023
0605-0652 UTC
Elecraft KX2 and attic mounted dipole oriented EW

Notes: Very weak signal but whoops easily heard. QSB prevented copying all of the Morse message; portions copied: "DW" "BAT" "TMP" "66" There was a lot of atmospheric noise (QRN), so I had to use quite a bit of attenuation on the receiver.

Thanks for operating this beacon!

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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #69 on: April 12, 2023, 0322 UTC »
0311 4095.6 S6
0322 up to S7 and "BAT 13.0"
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #70 on: April 29, 2023, 0612 UTC »
The Desert Whooper on 4095.6 CW coming in here at about S1 with fading.
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #71 on: June 11, 2023, 0549 UTC »
Very nice S1 signal here tonight.
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #72 on: July 02, 2023, 2242 UTC »
The Desert Whooper, its native language electromagnetism, cries out into the lonesome desert night in search of a fellow beacon-friend to share telemetry with.

Caught The Whooper on KSF and a Prescott, AZ Kiwi SDR, but that's not quite like hearing it on my own gear (RSPduo + Yaesu FT-710 AESS) so we'll keep trying.

I suspect I'm not the only one interested in more details on how it was designed and built.  Seems like a very simple CW-and-microcontroller project, except for the varactor sweep on the crystal oscillator.  That's pretty cool (and really grabs your attention when you're looking at the waterfall AND just listening to it.)

Every beacon ought to have a Whooper on-board. :)
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #73 on: July 03, 2023, 0003 UTC »
The first page of this thread has a fairly detailed post about how it's built. I mainly catch it before sunrise and after sunset
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Re: The Desert Whooper
« Reply #74 on: July 23, 2023, 1834 UTC »
Since it's too late in the morning to hear this at home I checked it out on the KFS SE kiwi

4095.65 KHz  DW   S5 signal  BAT 14.0volts  oTMP  102deg  iTMP  110deg  PV  767 mAmps

I've been trying to catch it when the iTMP hits 120 as it did a year ago.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2023, 0321 UTC by Teotwaki »
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