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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: P51 on July 01, 2012, 1502 UTC

Title: HF Beacon X
Post by: P51 on July 01, 2012, 1502 UTC

Copying a beacon on 4094.00 Khz send the letter X. I have heard it day & night in the southwest US. Has anyone else copied this beacon?

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: Token on July 02, 2012, 1542 UTC

Freq right this minute (1540 UTC, July 2, 2012) is 4094.5.

I assume because of the times I can hear it that it is in the Mojave Desert area someplace, maybe Death Valley / Owens Valley / High Desert area, something like that.

T!

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: P51 on July 02, 2012, 1636 UTC

Thanks T, I was just wondering if anybody else was copying this beacon.

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: zackers on July 05, 2012, 1439 UTC

That must be a new one. I haven't heard it or even heard of it before. We're in the noisy season now but I'll give a listen.

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: Pigmeat on July 09, 2012, 2300 UTC

That's one of the old Mojave Beacon frequencies. It always amazed me how well that frequency worked for them. I could hear them there from about an hour before sunset until the sun went down out there just about any time I tuned in.

I was about 2300 miles from them,all land. That's a long way for a pw beacon to propagate over dirt.

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: chipensaw on August 19, 2012, 0601 UTC

Copying the X beacon right now, 11:00 P.M. PST - 07:00 GMT.  Seems to be another beacon on the same frequency.  Cannot tell if it is a single or double dash.

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: Token on October 11, 2012, 1331 UTC

This beacon, "X", is still hammering along on 4094.5 kHz.  Freq seems very stable and the X's are sent about every 7 seconds or so.  Has anyone stepped up with any infromation about this one?

T!

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: vlfradio on October 11, 2012, 1530 UTC

It is not in the central Inyo County region, as it is not a daytime, short-skip audible beacon, unlike some of the 4096/7 kHz cluster were, but it is strong at night here in the northern Mojave Desert. -v-

Title: Re: HF Beacon X
Post by: Greenfroggy on October 17, 2012, 1315 UTC

Oct 17
First time I have heard  X

X on 4094.4 kHz  1254Utc
ic 756 40 meter end fed wire.

GF