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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: dogman on May 21, 2021, 1819 UTC

Title: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: dogman on May 21, 2021, 1819 UTC

CB runs about 10 mw into a dipole...located East of The Continental Divide some where high in the Rockies...
SOLAR ONLY.  No Battery.  I have been listening for it today and finally caught it
on the NUT SDR at 1801- 1805 utc on a long fade up...in fact it actually left a trace. Then it disappeared.
It went into action about two days ago.
FREQUENCY is 7956 kHz

It sends a dash about every sec.  but sounds like a baby crying due to freq. shift.
Definitely not easy to DX.

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: dogman on May 21, 2021, 2059 UTC

Coming into KFS OMNI antenna with some weak fadups..at 2055 utc...I'd say thats pretty good.

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: MojaveBeaconeer on May 22, 2021, 2124 UTC

AWESOME TO KNOW as every beacon put on weak or strong contributes to the HUF fun and to propagation research, too! Thanks for the beacon info - it's small power reminds me of MarinDit's second harmonic well heard but only about 5-10 mW ERP on 8193.75 kHz or so...

73 and will try for in the Owens Valley - MB

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: Teotwaki on May 28, 2021, 0235 UTC

(https://media.tenor.com/images/6cc2cfe943e0002acb919e483f26e72d/tenor.gif)

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: dogman on May 30, 2021, 1813 UTC

CB into the shack with weak fade ups at 1810 utc and also on the NUT sdr...weak but in there...
Been days since I have heard it...not a bad catch regarding a 4m-10mw beacon..

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: Teotwaki on June 01, 2021, 1544 UTC

No luck catching it yet. Hopefully it is built well and will be on the air for a long time!

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: dogman on June 09, 2021, 1717 UTC

For the last 15 min. I have heard  "CB" fade up a number of times on the NUT SDR
1700-1715 utc 

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: Teotwaki on June 09, 2021, 1934 UTC

Which One of the Utah kiwis? I’ve been trying the LP Yagi facing east but no luck. 😢

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: dogman on July 05, 2021, 1443 UTC

Got CB on the NUT sdr the time 1440 utc...7956 khz

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: Teotwaki on July 05, 2021, 1528 UTC

Quote from: dogman on July 05, 2021, 1443 UTC

Got CB on the NUT sdr the time 1440 utc...7956 khz

Which receiver? Omni or directional NUT SDRs?

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: dogman on July 06, 2021, 0045 UTC

Omni...when I'm listening on KFS it is always the omni antenna also.
Boy I was lucky to catch it there...it faded out and never came back.

Title: Re: NEW REMOTE BEACON "Cry Baby" AKA CB
Post by: dogman on July 09, 2021, 1416 UTC

Some good fade ups on the NUT SDR beginning at 1405 utc ...
http://kiwisdr1.sdrutah.org:8073/
Amazing this little beacon is still in operation ...