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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: Teotwaki on June 02, 2014, 2310 UTC
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5-31 041:5Z
4094.5 X beacon
4096.24 Hexie dasher
4102.3 possibly the W beacon but very weak
06-01 0400Z
4094.5 X Beacon
4096 hearing what sounded like a long 5 second dash
4096.24 Hexie
4102.3 W a.k.a. Windy beacon. Clearly heard W in Morse but interspersed with other Morse-like dits that made no sense. So is that supposed to be wind speed?
6626.3 fast ditter
6700.5 possibly Hexie 2
Was using my Elecraft KX3 and a center fed 132 foot dipole elevated 30 feet while camped at 8500 feet in the Inyo Mountains near Death Valley
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Nice catches! I haven't heard any 4 MHz beacons in quite some time.
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The 5 second long beacon you list at 4096, did it have a chirp at the leading edge? I have been seeing this one, but not sure how long it is around. Freq has been about 4095.7.
Yes, Wendy has a W followed by dits. The number of dits between the W’s tells the relative wind speed, lots of dits close together is high wind, fewer is lighter wind.
The 6626.3 fast ditter was possibly Rainey, Rocky was likely in there also, but it is mixed in with Rainey and if you don’t know what to look for you can mix it under Rainey.
Surprised you did not try for Sally while in the Inyo Mnts, you probably had a pretty good chance for it.
T!
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The 5 second long beacon you list at 4096, did it have a chirp at the leading edge? I have been seeing this one, but not sure how long it is around. Freq has been about 4095.7.
Yes, Wendy has a W followed by dits. The number of dits between the W’s tells the relative wind speed, lots of dits close together is high wind, fewer is lighter wind.
The 6626.3 fast ditter was possibly Rainey, Rocky was likely in there also, but it is mixed in with Rainey and if you don’t know what to look for you can mix it under Rainey.
Surprised you did not try for Sally while in the Inyo Mnts, you probably had a pretty good chance for it.
T!
Sorry for the late replies! I did not have notifications set up properly.
Thanks Chris, the camp site in the Inyos was great for listening. I mainly had the radio on at night and in the daytime I was out hiking or driving the old mining roads.
Token,
I did not notice a leading edge chirp but I'll try to listen for it on the next trip. I have a really good 3 minute audio recording of Windy I'll have to post somewhere. Any suggestions for something easy? Otherwise I could make a "video" version to post on YouTube
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It would seem that "Sally" 5205.3 Saline Valley daytime ditter is now QRT - nothing hrd. in very quiet Inyo locales of it in a year or so.
he (Tim) must Must be at cerro gordo... pretty close to me...
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I meant JIM is camped up in Inyos at Cerro gordo - should be in the area to hear all the solar-only ones as groundwave or semi...
Listen on 13563 kHz...
FM 97.9 MHz
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Well, I was camped out there a while back on May 31st but I was closer to Burgess than Cerro Gordo. ;D
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I was stuck on some endless conference calls so I cobbled together the "W" beacon recording on YouTube with some random photos here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLpYIXNigww&feature=youtu.be
The original recording is a little over 3 minutes but I shortened it a bit.
Jim
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Ha! I just found Token's recording from 4 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhuPcNZ-EIk
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I Dfed (W) Wind-speed beacon in spring 2001 in the upper Colorado (not state of) Desert. It was on 4095.5 kHz back then, before QSY to 4102.7. Employs three spoons (grapefruit type) on muffin-fan spindle - one turn of anenometer makes for one dit of the "ditting portion" of the ident using an optoisolator, then "W every 10 seconds.
It has been suffering battery problems for years now.
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I Dfed (W) Wind-speed beacon in spring 2001 in the upper Colorado (not state of) Desert. It was on 4095.5 kHz back then, before QSY to 4102.7. Employs three spoons (grapefruit type) on muffin-fan spindle - one turn of anenometer makes for one dit of the "ditting portion" of the ident using an optoisolator, then "W every 10 seconds.
It has been suffering battery problems for years now.
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Any pictures??