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Title: A quick walk through the dashers / ditters, 12/22/2012 morning
Post by: Token on December 22, 2012, 1749 UTC
Moring all,

While listening for other things this morning I decided to take a trip around the beacons to see what was up.  The following list is sorted by frequency order, and is not the order in which I received them.  Freqs are rounded off to nearest 0.1 kHz as several of these drift a bit.

Dec 22, 2012

1447 UTC, 2008.4 kHz, S5, dasher sends about 17 dashes/min, each 1 sec long, cycles on and off
1432 UTC, 2018.3 kHz, S4, dasher sends about 48 dashes / min, each 0.22 sec long, cycles on and off
1424 UTC, 2097.3 kHz, S7, "A" beacon
1407 UTC, 4079.6 kHz, S4, "TMP" beacon, sending TMP 27 right now
1409 UTC, 4086.7 kHz, S3, dasher sends about 8.7 dashes / min, each about 1.7 sec long
1415 UTC, 4094.5 kHz, S4, "X" beacon, about 6.8 sec between letters
1420 UTC, 4096.3 kHz, S4, "Hexie" dasher, 1.1 sec dashes each 2.2 seconds, or 27.4 dash / min
1615 UTC, 4097.2 kHz, S6, "Inyo Whooper" dasher, 0.5 sec dash every 1.1 sec, or about 54.5 dash / min
1418 UTC, 4102.3 kHz, S3, Windy, "W" beacon, lots of dits this morning, but then the wind is up here ;)
1622 UTC, 5205.3 kHz, S4, "Sally" beacon, sends 0.16 sec dits about every 0.48 sec, or about 125 dits / min
1658 UTC, 6626.7 kHz, S4, "Rocky" ditter, narrow dits about 0.26 sec apart, or about 230 dits / min
1438 UTC, 6668.0 kHz, S2, "L" beacon, about 9.3 secs apart, or 6.5 times / min, hearing extra leading dit
1630 UTC, 7998.9 kHz, S2, Ditter, dits about 0.15 secs long, about every 0.6 secs, or about 100 dits / min
1648 UTC, 8193.7 kHz, S3, "MarinDit" ditter, dits are about 0.165 sec long and about every 0.97 sec, or about 62 dits / min
1636 UTC, 8497.4 kHz, S2, fgast ditter, dits are about 0.14 sec long, and about 0.6 sec apart, or about 100 dits / min

THats all for this morning, maybe tonight I will see if I can dig out a few more.

T!
Title: Re: A quick walk through the dashers / ditters, 12/22/2012 morning
Post by: cmradio on December 23, 2012, 0618 UTC
1407 UTC, 4079.6 kHz, S4, "TMP" beacon, sending TMP 27 right now

Eeeeeee, it's warmer in Vancouver than there? :o

Peace!
Title: Re: A quick walk through the dashers / ditters, 12/22/2012 morning
Post by: Token on December 23, 2012, 1512 UTC
TMP always reads a bit high, it was about 19 F at my house at the time TMP was reporting 27.  I never have figured the location of TMP, but it is always a bit warmer there than here.

T!
Title: Re: A quick walk through the dashers / ditters, 12/22/2012 morning
Post by: weaksigs on December 24, 2012, 1404 UTC
Great list as usual and much appreciated.
Wish I could hear half of those beacons here on the East coast.

Thanks T

weaksigs