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Gendarme
Dave Richards:
I don't see a thread dedicated to Gendarme, though I do see fairly frequent loggings of it by Teotwaki in his log threads. That's why I'm posting this in it's own thread.
I'm currently slumming it in style with my cat Sprout in my campervan. A week or so ago, we were in Prescott National Forest, AZ, from where I logged the following on my Belka-DX receiver with set-top whip -
Gendarme on ~6627 at 2115z on 4/10/2022. Very weak, but copyable, due to low band noise.
ChrisSmolinski:
A very nice catch, Dave! This beacon, and Rainy, have been on my to-catch list for years.
p.s. I've been following your trip via your FB posts, nice to see you're mixing some radio in with your other adventures!
Dave Richards:
--- Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on April 27, 2022, 1130 UTC ---A very nice catch, Dave! This beacon, and Rainy, have been on my to-catch list for years.
p.s. I've been following your trip via your FB posts, nice to see you're mixing some radio in with your other adventures!
--- End quote ---
Thanks Chris! It is so easy nowadays to take SW receive capability along with me on my trips, that there is no good reason not to. Although I don't listen anywhere near as much as I could, I pull the receiver out when I feel so inclined, and figure that every single data point helps, even if it is only one or two.
One pleasant surprise has been how low the band noise often is, when I'm away from all the RFI in the large metro area that I call home. At first, I even thought there was something wrong with the receiver!
Pigmeat:
--- Quote from: Dave Richards on May 11, 2022, 0246 UTC ---
--- Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on April 27, 2022, 1130 UTC ---A very nice catch, Dave! This beacon, and Rainy, have been on my to-catch list for years.
p.s. I've been following your trip via your FB posts, nice to see you're mixing some radio in with your other adventures!
--- End quote ---
Thanks Chris! It is so easy nowadays to take SW receive capability along with me on my trips, that there is no good reason not to. Although I don't listen anywhere near as much as I could, I pull the receiver out when I feel so inclined, and figure that every single data point helps, even if it is only one or two.
One pleasant surprise has been how low the band noise often is, when I'm away from all the RFI in the large metro area that I call home. At first, I even thought there was something wrong with the receiver!
--- End quote ---
LOL! In my early pirate days, I went way out in the boonies to tx. Got the antenna about 60 feet up and heard nothing on my brand new
Sangean 909. I changed the batteries and went to 40 meters, a ton of QSO's. I put the original batteries back in and proceeded to do a couple of shows.
I was so far out in the sticks there was no electrical noise to be heard as static that late in the fall. I was sure the receiver had got bounced around and broke when I first heard all that dead air.
Teotwaki:
--- Quote from: Pigmeat on June 03, 2022, 0024 UTC ---
LOL! In my early pirate days, I went way out in the boonies to tx. Got the antenna about 60 feet up and heard nothing on my brand new
Sangean 909. I changed the batteries and went to 40 meters, a ton of QSO's. I put the original batteries back in and proceeded to do a couple of shows.
I was so far out in the sticks there was no electrical noise to be heard as static that late in the fall. I was sure the receiver had got bounced around and broke when I first heard all that dead air.
--- End quote ---
My first time out in the desert was about the same. With the lack of a big noise floor out of the radio I thought I had a bad antenna connection.
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