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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: stendec on September 09, 2022, 1654 UTC
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At 1615Z I am hearing a slow ditter on 7998.2 using the KPH SDR. Signal is S2-S3 and ~65 dits per minute. Also copied on the KFS Omni SDR but not as strong.
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What you heard was the Hiker Beacon...7998.2 Khz.
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Hmmm....I check the "Currently Active Beacons" before posting, and noted that nothing is listed for 7998.2.
On the list, HIKER is listed at 8005. Has this beacon changed frequency?
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The beacon list is not correct at this point in time ,the correct freq. is 7998.2 Khz.
Months ago I copied a cw message on the beacons freq. it referred to the beacon as the hiker beacon.
What you and I heard was the slow dasher or ditter if you prefer. It has a ditter at a bit faster rate. It even has a very slow long 1.5 sec dash with a space of about 2 sec.
It has been a few months since the operator has sent cw. I don't think many of the HFU listeners ever caught the morse messages.
The speed is pretty slow 10-13 words per minute sent by a military leg key from the Vietnam period of time. The operator was a high speed intercept operator.
I forgot, the cw messages seem to follow the Long dash mode. The beacon is in a jeep with a tuner and a whip antenna. I think this info. is probably on this web site.
This summer the op. was fishing a lot of small streams and therefore the location of the beacon was in a state of flux.
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HQ,
Thanks for the info and details on the HIKER beacon. I'd sure like to catch one of those hand-sent messages.