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Loggings => HF Beacons => Topic started by: HQ180 on July 11, 2022, 1435 UTC

Title: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on July 11, 2022, 1435 UTC
Freq: 7956 khz  time 1400 utc...weak but in there a crying dash ever second ...
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on July 11, 2022, 1441 UTC
CRY BABY solid copy on the NUT sdr  1440utc.  7956 Khz
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: Dave Richards on July 12, 2022, 0032 UTC
Although I'm not copying it from my current QTH in SW Utah, I hope to be heading a bit further north next week. Will take a listen for it then.
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on July 29, 2022, 1553 UTC
Today July 29th I went for an early morning hike and took the KA1103 receiver with me..
I caught Cry Baby on 7956 khz at 1300 utc...

I think someone said years ago it was about 10 mw output...
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on July 30, 2022, 1725 UTC
July 30  at 1315 utc I started hearing Cry Baby it was weak but in there none the less by 1330utc it faded out. 
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on August 02, 2022, 1408 UTC
Cry Baby 7956 khz fading up as of 1400 utc  about a dash per second
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: circuitmike on September 03, 2022, 0052 UTC
From what part of the country is this beacon most audible? I've been trying KiwiSDR's in various locations in the west and haven't heard it yet. Does it transmit 24/7 or is it solar powered?
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on September 09, 2022, 1721 UTC
Thats a good question.  There are those rare times in the fall and winter I catch it
coming into Colorado and now and then up on the NUT sdr.  I have even heard it
on the KPH SDR.  I keep its freq. in my receivers memory and therefore check it out most every day.  I do the same with Cry Baby.  Word has it that it operates at a 10mw power.  From a Rumor Mill source ( not absolutely reliable), A human or a squirrel cut though
the positive lead from its battery to the transmitter. 

Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on September 12, 2022, 1447 UTC
CRY Baby coming into the NUT sdrhttp://kiwisdr1.sdrutah.org:8073/ (http://kiwisdr1.sdrutah.org:8073/)
The time is 1446utc  very good copy 7956 khz
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: Dave Richards on September 12, 2022, 1601 UTC
Thanks HQ180. Just heard Cry Baby very faintly on the NUT SDR, on 7956, at 1600z on 9-12-2022.
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on September 14, 2022, 1426 UTC
CRY BABY very good copy on the NUT sdr  time now is 1425 utc
7956 khz
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on September 16, 2022, 1332 UTC
CRY BABY   crying  on the NUT sdr time now is 1332utc  7956 khz
Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: Teotwaki on September 18, 2022, 1531 UTC
From a Rumor Mill source ( not absolutely reliable), A human or a squirrel cut though
the positive lead from its battery to the transmitter.

Rodents love to do that. I had a small solar powered data logger where a wood rat chewed through the solar panel cable. Crybaby's creators need to add some tubular woven metal braid to the cable's exterior and the problem will go away.

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Title: Re: Cry Baby Beacon
Post by: HQ180 on September 20, 2022, 1346 UTC
CRY BABY making it into the KFS sdr  7956 khz ..1345 utc