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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: Seamus on November 02, 2009, 2238 UTC
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I finally got a chance to program some beacon frequencies into my radio, so I'll no longer have to punch them all in by hand. I figure I'll be much more likely to scan my list if all I have to do is push a couple of buttons instead of doing a "data entry" chore on the keypad.
Beacons heard @ 22.30 UTC:
OK
BLINKY (booming in as usual - I think I'm in the prime skip zome for this one)
Pike 78
TS (good, strong signal, there)
CO (with a message)
Location: upstate South Carolina
Radio: IC-718
Antenna: 400-foot longwire @40 feet (appears to have a north-south orientation -- working on putting up an east-west antenna, too)
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Some nice catches indeed...
Sure would be nice if the East Coasters could get another a
beacon going ...The Echo beacon met a tragic ending as well did the operator
I can say no more...
Poor old Blinky will have no one to care for it....
enjoy Blinky while it last perhaps it will
beep for years to come...
3s upon ya
Thanks for not spelling out the message...
CW is only out there for a few...
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Giving another run through the list a bit later tonight (04.38 UTC):
OK - good, strong, clean signal
Something - possibly WW, though maybe MO or TMP - around 4.078 - not enough to see clearly, even on the spectrogram; not consistently audible above background without the screen to look at
Ditter at 4.089 - again, almost-but-not-quite. Just enough audible to think there might be something there, with a column of ants just visible in the right place on the spectrogram
Pike 78 - some fading, but strong when it's up
TS - pounding in strong, with easy copy and clean signal
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Those Colorado 8 mc beacons propagate nicely...
WW is only 100 mw into a five foot whip...but has been heard
out on the east coast quite often.