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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: mark-n-nut on October 07, 2017, 0235 UTC
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Guess what is back on the air this evening!??
Just caught it on 4102.8 plus or minus!
Outstanding!!!
73, Mark, Ku7z
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Yeah!
I just saw it a few minutes ago
4102.841 KHz WINDY!! Great signal, about +15 dB over the noise. I think it was temp 81 deg battery 12.6 v
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Hearing Windy this morning, weak but it is there. Nice to hear it again!
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Oct 13 1140 Utc W q5 copy and the battery was 12.6 volts...
so far so good...
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I had to check here to make sure I wasn't hearing things! I have Windy pretty weak - making out the W and a few characters here and there, as well as some 'wind beeps' from time to time. Must be breezy there. Time 0505Z.
Looks like Windy has a fan club....
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Good copy tonight on W - actually has been fading up not out (!)
Mostly fast dits - windy there with TMP 72 and Battery 12.7V
Probably the best I have heard it in a long time tonight. Time now 0556Z.
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At 1500 utc I'm still able to hear W in Colorado on the R4B and 90 ft end fed wire amazing conditions today
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0615Z 4102.85 good signal into northern cal
tmp 58 bat 12.7V no wind tonight
have been hearing this for the last month or so in the evenings, good to hear it back!
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Am hearing Windy tonight along with ZN on about 4110.7. A also.
73, Mark
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Last night just before 0600Z heard W in the clear - probably the best I have heard it yet. Not sure if condx were favorable or my noise floor was lower than normal....
TMP 55 B127 with some varying wind dits from the anemometer. Didn't sound as windy as some nights ;)
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4102.860 KHz Windy, good signal. Very long dashes for wind. Temp 52 degrees. Battery 12.5 volts
Temp readings seem warmer in the early morning, as if it was moved SW of where I used to think it was located.
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Had some time to play tonight - W coming in pretty well with some QSB - good enough to copy TMP 57 and B(attery) 119. Battery seems a bit lower than in the recent past....
Must be calm in the desert - heard no wind dits at all.
Also heard "A" 2097 KHz pretty clear....
Local time about midnight // 0700Z
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Had some time to play tonight - W coming in pretty well with some QSB - good enough to copy TMP 57 and B(attery) 119. Battery seems a bit lower than in the recent past....
Last night I read it as 12.0 volts so I am wondering if the battery charging circuits or solar panel have failed.
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I've got a fair signal right now and it is reporting only 12.3 volts
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4102.840 KHz Windy. Signal +15dB over the noise. no wind. Temp 62 deg and battery is low at 11.9 volts. I hope the owner makes repairs soon.
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Some QSB but otherwise pretty good copy on W tonight TMP 55, B 119. No winds dits. Either it's calm or the wind ripped the anemometer off the pole....I'm guessing the former, and not the latter.
Time now 0628Z - Dec 31 2017
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4102.830 KHz Windy. Signal peaking +20dB over the noise. Breezy. Temp 51 deg and battery is low at 11.6 volts
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4102.817 KHz Windy. Very weak and am not hearing it as often. Battery is down to 11.1 volts. Wish I could help the owner to fix it.
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Jan 6 time 1249 utc W 57 dgs Battery voltage 11.1 volts... freq. 4102.8 khz
Be interesting to watch it die...reminds me of the later days in the oscar 10 sat. but of course out of no where oscar 10 came back alive
that was a shock to the Hams. I used to be on the bird in those days.
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Was hearing Windy this morning around 1200 utc, tmp was 56 and Battery at 11.1. Left the shack after that and when I came back about 2 hours later all I was hearing was an occasional "S" around a minute plus apart. It seemed to vary. Looked for it on the global tuners a little bit ago and it was still sending an "S". Lots of cloud cover and storms coming off the pacific yesterday and today.
73, Mark
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4102.840 KHz
I just heard it send an S. I wonder if it is prelude to Shutdown
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4102.895 Hearing just an occasional "S" at least a minute apart. Very weak here. Watching the battery voltage slowly drop over the last week. I copied 11.2V last night.
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Hearing the same thing here 11 Jan 2018 at 1240z. Wasn't sure at first if it was an S or O.
At 1241z I heard a single dot/dash. Nothing more heard. It's dead, Jim ?
Nope, weak signal (S or O) again at 1252z.
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I am hearing a letter H right now about 65 seconds apart
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Too weak to get a good read on the metrics but Windy is functioning normally right now: sending "W", wind speed dits and temp/batt
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Back to normal! Tmp is 74 and the Batt is 12.5. I think it started getting sunshine again!
73, Mark