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22 Meter Band HiFER Beacons / Re: 22m Beacon
« on: January 22, 2020, 1135 UTC »
The two most consistent performers here on the prairie are K6FRC from out west in California and RY down east in Maine. At FRC, the antenna is a relatively tiny 20 meter Hamstick mobile antenna on a metal roof of a small building (a shipping container). It has the advantage, though, of a nicely elevated site with no lossy trees in the immediate vicinity.
I frequently hear K6FRC from here on the East Coast. I had always assumed he ran a little more than Part 15 compliant power into a more than average antenna since he is the only West coast 22M beacon I hear. I am quite impressed with the coverage he gets with a hamstick at 1.8 mW. But I think “nicely elevated” is not quite fully descriptive of the location...
http://www.k6frc.com/
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